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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

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

The set list mixed new songs with old favorites: “Bloody Mary” into “Abracadabra” into “Judas” into the German-language “Sheiße,” which involved a bunch of oversize quill pens and a Last Supper-style tableau.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 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

Thinking quickly, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a quill pen.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

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

Mackenzie made up his mind quickly: no matter whose, this dog was desperately in need of urgent treatment; the quills must be extracted at once before the infection spread further.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford