quill
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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
He must save it all for his quill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
Amid the fresh scholarship of recent years—the microanalysis of quill strokes, the algorithmic scrutiny of syntax—Mr. Swift’s contribution, and it’s a valuable one, is to tell the story of a building.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 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
He held a writing quill in one hand and a big metal sheet of parchment in the other.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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
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