standish

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College professor: "Flunk the IDiots" 2006

At her first attempt, she began to write with a dry pen, and when the circumstance was pointed out, seemed unable, after several attempts, to dip it in the massive silver ink-standish, which stood full before her.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

There was an old standish on the mantelshelf containing a dusty apology for all three.

Barnaby Rudge 2007

And away went the dear girl, very sorrowful, carrying down with her my standish, and all its furniture, and a little parcel of pens beside, which having been seen when the great search was made, she was bid to ask for.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

On one side stood an ink-standish with paper; and behind this desk appeared the conjurer himself, in sable vestments, his head so overshadowed with hair, that, far from contemplating his features, Timothy could distinguish nothing but a long white beard, which, for aught he knew, might have belonged to

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

But, to confess to you the truth, the works and passages in which I have succeeded, have uniformly been written with the greatest rapidity; and when I have seen some of these placed in opposition with others, and commended as more highly finished, I could appeal to pen and standish, that the parts in which I have come feebly off, were by much the more laboured.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

I live in intimate friendship, to come into my house, where I am surrounded with my servants, I rest assured that he is not to stab me before he leaves it in order to rob me of my silver standish; and I no more suspect this event than the falling of the house itself, which is new, and solidly built and founded. —

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 2004

Patrick the puppy put too much ink in my standish, [5] and, carrying too many things together, I spilled it on my paper and floor.

The Journal to Stella 2003

Swift his “large silver standish, consisting of a large silver plate, an ink-pot, and a sand-box.”

The Journal to Stella 2003

The gnarled finger plucked another sheet from a pigeonhole, dipped the pen in the standish again, and rewrote the words as surely as the first time.

The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977