penna

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His putting to flight the assassins in Ferrara gave him such a reputation for courage, that there went about in his honour a popular couplet   "Colla penna e colla spada   Nessun val quanto Torquato."

From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Tasso, Torquato

In this country the problem is to decline "penna:" in Germany "mensa" is the word.

From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold

L’eroe ha movimenti da eroe, il volgar da volgare; e quel che non descriverebbe lingua nè penna, descrive in pochissimi tratti l’ingegno e l’arte di Raffaello.”—p.

From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883

Sed taceat, qui χαῖρε tuum quoque nuntiat, ales; Χαῖρε meum penna candidiore venit.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

But, alas! with the book the sounds glided away; and "penna" and "pennam" and "pennis" and "pennæ" were confusedly and indiscriminately mingled.

From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Stowe, Harriet Beecher