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
He must save it all for his quill.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025
How did the shabby offices of the late 1700s, with their dim lights, coal-burning fireplaces and quill pens, evolve into the sleek, high-tech work environments that we know today?
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 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
From her pocket she drew three precious objects that had required some ingenuity to gather, a partly used copybook from her trunk, a small bottle of ink, and a quill pen.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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Scrabble: Words that Begin with Q
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