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How To Use inkstand In A Sentence

• An English gold-mounted scent bottle, a gilt-bronze inkstand with gadrooned lid, a cracked horn spoon, and a small marble clock topped with two swans drinking. Dragonfly in Amber
• He would be incautious in dipping his pen into his inkstand.
• They were presented with an oak Derby roll top desk, an inkstand and a case of fish knives and forks.
• Perhaps representing the height of the neoclassical idiom, literally embracing both ancient and eighteenth-century Rome, is the inkstand illustrated in Plate XII.
• The inkstand told this to a feather pen and other writing materials.
• What he does want is a woman amiable as a surface of parchment, serviceable as his inkstand; one who will be like the wig in which he closes his forensic term, disreputable from overwear, but suited to the purpose. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
• I'm sure there were those who lamented the demise of the quill pen and inkstand in the classroom.
• In the April of that year, they delivered a ‘small knurled inkstand, a large dolphin trowel, a set of vases, a set of chased canisters, three escallop shells and three dish crosses’.
• Much of the detail, interior and exterior, all the way down to doorknobs and inkstands, was designed by Pugin, who prepared detailed drawings by the thousand.
• Stothard contributed designs not only for large objects such as inkstands and centerpieces, but also for decanter labels and flatware.