beholder

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A gift shop operated by the parish sells dozens of souvenirs depicting Dr. Hernández, including plastic penholders and statuettes, alongside only a few representing the Virgin Mary, or posters of Pope John Paul II.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2014

As Bombay's Chief Minister, he decreed that all schoolchildren must use cheap penholders so that those too poor to afford fountain pens would not suffer from a sense of inferiority.

From Time Magazine Archive

The setting of most of Pursuit is Alconleigh�a forbidding country mansion littered with terriers, halberds, "penholders made of tigers' teeth," a dusty collection of rare minerals, pet dormice, horses, French governesses, peasants and pheasants.

From Time Magazine Archive

In addition to the traditional banquet trays and soup bowls, Yamada Heiando offers slick accessories for the urban sophisticate, from penholders to mouse pads.

From Time Magazine Archive

They played xylophonic tunes with penholders on the desk's edge and carved their initials inside: they wrote their names in ink and made the inscription permanent by rubbing it over with blotting-paper.

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton