Word: quilled
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...Byron, bequeathed his desk to his valet. He himself had often hated this mahogany desk with its dozen secret drawers, its rickety legs which folded up so that it could be carried about like a trunk, its green-baize writing board, its little pigeonholes for ink and sand and quill. He had used it most in moments of depression; waking up in Italy after a night of debauch, he would sit before it for an hour or more, trying to trace out some verses of Don Juan, a poem which bored him before its completion. Whenever he saw the desk...
...shining calmly in the spot five hundred miles from shore where he claims that a tempest blew away all his instruments, food and signal charts. All the equipment is certainly gone, and it seems that only the word of the weather burean can keep Captain Giles from the damp quill and the two-a-day. But there will always remain a few skeptics who, keeping in mind that he admitted jettisoning 300 gallons of fuel, will class him with Cosy Dolan as the first to throw a World Series or a transoceanic flight...
Writing with a broad goose quill Old Paul von Hindenburg instructed Chancellor Marx as follows...
...William Cardinal O'Connell, preoccupied as he is with the affairs of Boston. Finally not His Eminence Denis Cardinal Dougherty, pious, harmoniously resident amid the calm of Philadelphia. None of the four U. S. cardinals ranks with the late James Cardinal Gibbons in ability to drive a persuasive quill. Does Rome look to him who sits on the seat of Cardinal Gibbons? It is His Grace the Archbishop of Baltimore, Michael Curley, a Roosevelt rather than a Wilson. But in Francis Clement Kelley, Bishop of Oklahoma, Okla., Rome has found far more than an able scrivener. He is fervent...
...regulation distance. In the ninth, with only one out. Harvard had runners on second and third, when the Brown strategy board took a long chance that pushed the game into the tenth inning. Zarakov was walked purposely to get at Todd, who was having trouble with Quill's left-handed shots. Todd hit to third base, and a double play retired the side without score...