Pens

Examples

• Can I forward you a bundle of pens, or anything? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He drew out a note-case and one of the new stylographic pens. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• And now for the pens. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• May I hold the pens? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It was only in 1645, after a corresponding attempt in 1556 had failed, that the swine-pens in the inner town were pulled down at Leipzig. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I mend pens remarkably well. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The house was pretty full; I had prepared a number of printed copies, and provided pens and ink dispersed all over the room. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The Italian pens, ink and paper are also two centuries behind the like articles in other countries. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• You must find your own ink, pens, and blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Here is an inkstand, here are pens and paper, here are wafers. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Veterinarians in the employ of the government examine all the hogs that come into these pens, and any that seem to be at all sickly, or for any reason unfit for food, are held out. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Dinner over, we produced a bundle of pens, a copious supply of ink, and a goodly show of writing and blotting paper. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Other pens than mine will describe the strange circumstances which are now shortly to follow. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A table and some shelves were covered with manuscript papers and with worn pens and a medley of such tokens. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The Count walked to a writing-table near the window, opened his desk, and took from it several quires of paper and a bundle of quill pens. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The next time I sat down to write, and regularly afterwards, she sat in her old place, with a spare bundle of pens at her side. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• On his looking up, the row of heads suddenly disappeared, and the sound of pens travelling at a furious rate over paper, immediately succeeded. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I had some quills to make into pens. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The operation is such that colored marks upon the paper were made by the pens corresponding precisely to the perforations in the strip at the sending station. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• As he finished mending the pens, a horse, saddled and bridled, was brought up to the garden-gate. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Later discoveries she will be good enough to leave to the pens of those persons who can write in the capacity of actual witnesses. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• At the foot of the same chair there lies a dirty bit of thin red cord that they tie up pens with. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He looked on with great interest while I collected pens, ink, and paper. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He never liked to see me mend pens; my knife was always dull-edged--my hand, too, was unskilful; I hacked and chipped. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Cried I, in my turn, striving to look big; And then went home to mourn my waste of paper, Pens, ink, time, and e'en my last wax taper. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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