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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

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

Rather than fixating on Jefferson’s quill scratches, Mr. Amar illuminates how this equality ethos resonated with America’s most profound thinkers—from the fiery eloquence of Frederick Douglass to the unyielding advocacy of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

I would exercise my First Amendment right to free speech—but in the old-fashioned way: by scratching out pamphlets with a quill pen and handing them out on the street.

From Slate ● May 8, 2024

He therefore set off along the corridor again, passing nobody but a frowning wizard who was murmuring instructions to a quill that floated in front of him, scribbling on a trail of parchment.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

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

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

BBC Scotland News understands bedding was discovered with porcupine quills in the straw.

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2025

North American porcupines replaced these with a mix of insulating fur and long, needle-like quills that can be raised when they feel threatened.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024

“I’m Curzon, sir. Mister Bellingham’s boy. My master needs me to fetch new quills up Vandewater Street. I could show your girl the way.”

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson