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
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
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
It falls to the desk like an old-fashioned quill.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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
According to reports at the time there were some clues, including the discovery of straw bedding with porcupine quills in it.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 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
A lot of images in the novel, including a dog with its muzzle covered in huge porcupine quills, were those I really saw.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
"Are women quills or télétropes or new carriages?"
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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