Word: quilling
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...with keen quill, a genial critie, flays...
Wooden toothpicks, it is well known, are an excellent tonic, and serve very readily as a satisfactory substitute for unappetizing soups or meats. The medical "faculty" generally endorse them ; although some, it is true, assert that quills are superior. Indeed, it is to be regretted that the directors do not see their way to the introduction of quill toothpicks as a supplementary or alternative course on the regular bill of fare for wooden ones. Perhaps they will, however, consent to place quill toothpicks upon the order list. I earnestly urge this suggestion upon them...
...manufacture, as they do, so large a consumption of native timber. Prof. Sargent's statistics themselves show how forcible a reason this is. Perhaps patriotic considerations and a desire to discountenance the wasteful destruction of our forests, apart from other considerations, may induce the directors at Memorial to introduce quill instead of wooden toothpicks to the tables at the hall...
...likely to influence poetry and literature, as well as practical life, than the stylograph. Poets have always looked with peculiar veneration on the pens which have enabled them to transcribe their flowing thoughts, and the stylograph is a much more proper object for poetic inspiration than the vulgar goose quill or commonplace steel pen. A more poetical name might, perhaps, be invented for it, and we can easily imagine a poet addressing an ode to his stylograph, and introducing some simile such as, that as he carried stored up in the treasury of his brain the poem which...
...strive to magnify the sagacious Goose with this feeble, academic pen? Only a quill from her own wing would be equal to the task. It were better to give over the attempt, and try only to heed her counsels...