How To Use Inkstand In A Sentence
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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
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He would be incautious in dipping his pen into his inkstand.
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They were presented with an oak Derby roll top desk, an inkstand and a case of fish knives and forks.
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Perhaps representing the height of the neoclassical idiom, literally embracing both ancient and eighteenth-century Rome, is the inkstand illustrated in Plate XII.
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The inkstand told this to a feather pen and other writing materials.
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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
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I'm sure there were those who lamented the demise of the quill pen and inkstand in the classroom.
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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’.
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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.
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Stothard contributed designs not only for large objects such as inkstands and centerpieces, but also for decanter labels and flatware.
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He put his blotting-pad square on the table, closed the lid of the inkstand, arranged his pens.
New Grub Street
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He would be incautious in dipping his pen into his inkstand.
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I'm sure there were those who lamented the demise of the quill pen and inkstand in the classroom.
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She took her pen from its inkstand and opened the diary to its first, blank page.
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It was written in the most charming of chirography, thought Cosette; in the same hand, but with divers inks, sometimes very black, again whitish, as when ink has been added to the inkstand, and consequently on different days.
Les Miserables
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Shaped like a fortified medieval castle with domes and a lighthouse-like tower, the case conforms glovelike to the elements of the inkstand.
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The feather pen said that the only thing the inkstand can do is give him ink. They kept arguing.
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With a little shiver, she picked up the pen which stood in the inkstand and traced over the date.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Thumb and forefinger pressed together, as if to urge the top on, the boy dreams awhile before settling down to the books and the inkstand he has pushed to one side.
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An antique silver sauceboat will set you back €250, while inkstands are priced upwards of €200.
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The feather pen laughed at the inkstand.
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He regarded the man who had taught him calligraphy with such reverence that he would stand and hold the inkstand while his teacher worked.
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The geezer was a sheet-iron contraption in the shape of a pocket inkstand, and it stood on a perch in the corner, like a Russian icon, with a small blue flame flickering beneath it.
Europe Revised
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For the next few months, he went from shack to barracks and on to the next settlement accompanied by a single guard who carried his inkstand and warned the householders of his imminent arrival.
