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
He holds a piece of paper in one hand and a quill in the other.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 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 held out a roster for me to sign, and indicated how to draw an X. I took his quill, and wrote my name.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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Scrabble: Words that Begin with Q
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