pencraft

Over time, as the concept of the individual with his own unique interior life emerged, pencraft began to absorb new meanings.

I would not give a groat for that man’s knowledge in pencraft, who does not understand this,——That the best plain narrative in the world, tacked very close to the last spirited apostrophe to my uncle Toby——would have felt both cold and vapid upon the reader’s palate;—therefore I forthwith put an end to the chapter, though I was in the middle of my story.

Men of the sword, they were silent while the scholarly academicians debated the rules of pencraft.

Pencraft, Herbert, and Neb were stupefied.

As Cyrus Harding thus enumerated, without forgetting one, the singular incidents which had occurred in the island, Herbert, Neb, and Pencraft stared at each other, not knowing what to reply, for this succession of incidents, grouped thus for the first time, could not but excite their surprise to the highest degree.