The inkstand is a beautiful specimen of silverwork. From Wordnik.com. [Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2] Reference
The inkstand was a skull; the ruler was a fore-arm; the paper-weight was. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Miniatures] Reference
Above the inkstand is a pen stuck in a hole, with vacant holes beside it. From Wordnik.com. [The Care of Books] Reference
Tom Cogit jumping up and bringing him the inkstand. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
There are pens, paper, and inkstand in the sitting-room. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian] Reference
This inkstand is Old Bow china, date -- early Queen Anne. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference
The cut above, besides an inkstand, represents an open book. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
But the judge's inkstand was merely the fore-runner of surprises. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
Now this is a faithful portrait of the inkstand, called Tintero de. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
Another curious spring, called the devil's inkstand, seems full of ink. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of California] Reference
Whittington inkstand, in railway fares and buying stalls and programmes. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference
The design of the inkstand was one of great beauty and good workmanship. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference
I dipped the pen in the inkstand several times, and held it hovering over the sheet. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
A massive silver inkstand bore witness to the gratitude of the Society of Merchants '. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
Beside them stands a double inkstand, intended probably to contain both black and red ink. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Between them was a table laid with rolls of parchment, an inkstand, and a sheaf of quills. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
The Queen's desk was still littered with papers, the inkstand still open and the pen laid beside it. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Victoria] Reference
On the table was a small inkstand, perfectly clean, a steel pen, equally clean, on the rest attached to it. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
The ink was made of a black coloring substance; it was kept in an inkstand made of metal, with a cover to it. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Commissary's inkstand was a coffee-cup without an handle, and his book of entries a quire of dirty writing-paper. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference
On Sundays he fishes, for a change; his rod takes the place of his pen, and his can of worms serves instead of inkstand. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He hurled an inkstand at the intruder, staining the wall of the chamber with a mark that remained there through centuries. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference
Every gentleman should, however, carry in his portmanteau a flat portfolio with writing materials and a traveling inkstand. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men] Reference
Presently he looked up, and asked in a tone of mingled anger and weariness, what had become of the inkstand he had brought. From Wordnik.com. [Louis' School Days A Story for Boys] Reference
Rainer's reach, and stood watching while Mr. Grisben struck a match and held it to one of the candles flanking the inkstand. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
Placing a pen and inkstand on the table, she takes her seat opposite them, and commences watching their declining consciousness. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Without saying a word, he seized his big inkstand filled with black ink and threw it at the crow, which was immediately covered. From Wordnik.com. [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference
A thickset personage, sitting near him, officiated as secretary -- to judge at least from the inkstand with which he was provided. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
The reed, cut to a point, which lies beside the inkstand, is the instrument used in writing with ink before the application of quills. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
He beheld his favorite thrown forward across a table, from which an overturned inkstand dripped its contents, unnoticed, to the floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
Close one eye, and rapidly try to dip a pen into an inkstand, or put a finger into the mouth of a bottle placed at a convenient distance. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
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