quill

Instead, she decided "I'm just going to enjoy it" and wore - appropriately - a red quill headpiece to the Baftas.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

The dining room table, where the sisters wrote, is strewn with manuscripts, quill pens and tea cups; a bonnet and shawl bedeck a chair in the small kitchen.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

He holds a piece of paper in one hand and a quill in the other.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025

When I told Julie that I planned to live for a year constitutionally—muskets, quill pens, and all—her reaction was not “Huzzah!”

From Slate ● May 8, 2024

Dean Thomas, who was good with a quill, had offered to forge Uncle Vernon’s signature on the form, but as Harry had already told Professor McGonagall he hadn’t had it signed, that was no good.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

Uniforms that sprouts porcupine quills at the tug of a collar?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

As late as the 1800s, most commodities were cultivated: Cinnamon bark was peeled and rolled into quills, opium juiced from poppies, and tea leaves dried out in the sun.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

The hollow spikes may have served as a defensive adaptation, functioning in a way similar to the quills of a porcupine by discouraging predators from attacking.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026

Each one is hand-plucked, which means you may spot a few black quills here and there; the company insists they’re harmless, and they disappear once cooked.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2025

Hundreds of delicate bones litter the clearing around the vehicle, scattered among thousands of porcupine quills: the remains of the small game that made up the bulk of McCandless’s diet.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer