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None do here use to swear, oathes do fray fish away. we sit still, watch our quill,
The Compleat Angler 2007
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So she went right to work with her ink well an 'quill,
The Path to Home 1920
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"I don't flatter myself," went on Doubleday, beginning on a new quill,
My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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I seem 's though I see her, with wrath in each quill,
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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I seem 's though I see her, with wrath in each quill,
The Biglow Papers James Russell Lowell 1855
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Assist me with your skill, that may direct my quill,
Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England Unknown 1833
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Because bold Britons have a tongue and free quill,
Don Juan George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Because bold Britons have a tongue and free quill,
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Screen'd by such means, here Scandal whets her quill,
The Village and the Newspaper George Crabbe 1793
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Screen'd by such means, here Scandal whets her quill,
The Village and the Newspaper George Crabbe 1793
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