"What are you doing, you old inkpot?" said Rumata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard to be a god]

And you, Bruno Nowlan, take your tongue out of your inkpot!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

Her gaze drifted toward the secretary and rested on the inkpot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seduction Of Sara]

Mr Squeaky Clean gets hold of the Ministerial inkpot once more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whispers Of Betrayal]

He dipped his stylus in his inkpot, and wrote without hesitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Man in Rome]

One conservation inkpot cancels another until the resource is gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpts from Aldo Leopold's Writings] Reference

Now a tempest in an inkpot threatens to stain his hard-earned image.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Ewan Cameron leaped to his feet, upsetting the inkpot he had been using.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragonfly in Amber]

He dipped the point into the inkpot and slowly wrote a dozen formal words.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference

They mostly accompanied an 'inkpot,' called from its users an 'exciseman.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced] Reference

Without speaking, Erdyl had opened his case and taken out a portable inkpot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordermaster]

Even a dissertation on the development of the inkpot would be deemed history nowadays.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference

Lafontaine drop any of his artless probity, when he dipped his pen into the Boccaccian inkpot?.    From Wordnik.com.  [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference

Lawrence pitched himself untidily into his chair before the desk and upset yet another inkpot.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Work for the Undertaker]

You may say that what remained was a simple and common object — a young woman in a bedroom with an inkpot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death of the Moth, and other essays] Reference

He used the Dragon Scepter to hold down one end and a gold-mounted inkpot and matching sand-bowl for the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of Chaos]

Frequently a live child is buried with a dead parent; but I had better leave much of their doings in the inkpot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference

Chloe had intimated that her graceful fingers were engaged with the inkpot and her head with schemes for further sonneting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Plains] Reference

She had just realized there was no inkpot on the table where the Aes Sedai took their meals, no sand bowl, no pen, no paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of Chaos]

Thus, whenever I felt the shadow of her wing or the radiance of her halo upon my page, I took up the inkpot and flung it at her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death of the Moth, and other essays] Reference

An empty champagne magnum lay smashed upon the floor; its neck had been broken off against the inkpot on the bureau and lay beside it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells] Reference

Mr Meggs hid the glass behind the inkpot and rang the bell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories] Reference

He waved a fist as if to hit his inkpot, and controlled himself with difficulty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tono Bungay] Reference

She placed him at a large table, opposite an inkpot and a pad of blotting-paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Longest Journey] Reference

Stockholm to the passage, his chair, his inkpot, and the portrait of his mother to the study.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Longest Journey] Reference

Then, suddenly remembering his errand, he walked up to the table, and said, "I want that inkpot!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story] Reference