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...f Basc to pad quietly through the woods, their belts filled with parchment, quills, and ink. She would choose one to shadow, scanning the landscape ...

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...ed and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine: But this eternal blazon must not be T... ...mmon stages—so they call them—that many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose quills and dare scarce come thither. HAMLET: What, are they children? wh...

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...as but for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face? If it ...

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...na’s warning, “Not now,” Lord Erymanth declared, “Avice, yes! A bird whose quills are quills of iron dipped in venom, and her beak a brazen one, disti... ...arting caress to his preserver. “So you have conquered the birds with iron quills!” I cried, triumphantly. “Who were they?” asked Harold, astonished. ...

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...e eyes, his straggly, sandy-white moustache sticking out all ways like the quills of the fretful porcupine, his propensity to sit down suddenly and fa...

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...tter of the musketry. Each distant thicket seemed a strange porcupine with quills of flame. A cloud of dark smoke, as from smoldering ruins, went up t...

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...and red tabs to military innovations over again. This is the resistance of quills and red tape. On the other hand the organisation of Britain for war ...

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...be intended for a bird, though the long skinny neck was bare, and the tiny quills of the young wings only showed a little grey sprouting feather, as d...

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...ed and said, “What is that to me?” “Not much now,” said Ikki, rattling his quills in a stiff, uncomfortable way, “but later we shall see. Is there any...

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...rought home by Ri- chard, together with a couple of the largest sea-bird’s quills that he could find—and which he shaped with his dagger, as best he m...

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... or rabbit back, or rat back, or perhaps got upon hedgehogs, whose prickly quills would be very terrible to the enemy. However this might be, and what...

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...reverberant voice of Danton; the Hyperion-shafts of Camille; the porcupine-quills of implacable Marat:—con- ceive all this. 168 The French Revolution...

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...gh closely observed, he was never seen to do anything but make pens out of quills, write small hand in a secret portfolio, and punch the point of the ...

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...ame the word wife for Thomas Rowsley, Earl of Ormont, put up the porcupine quills she bristled with at the survey of a sex thirsting, and likely to co...

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...ccasion fitted at bottom into a little bark basket, braided with porcupine quills, gayly tinted in the Indian fashion. This being set before the enter...

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...owy fellows, tricked out in gay blan- kets, leggings worked with porcupine quills, and jingling spurs. Mounted upon trained Indian mares, these heroes...

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...the edges with little tinkling tags something like the stained porcu- pine quills round an Indian moccasin. There was a hole or slit in the middle of ... ...th a jar of pickles for the steward’s pantry; another time with a bunch of quills for the chief mate’s desk, where he kept his log; a third time with ...

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...im potent in speech. Fronting the sea a desk was laid open. On it were the quills faithfully brought down by Braintop. “Pole’s own quills,” she said, ...

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...worsted. On his feet were deer-skin moccasins, ornamented with porcupines’ quills, after the manner of the Indians, and his limbs were guarded with lo... ...ions of his ears were entwined ornaments of silver, beads, and porcupine’s quills, mingled in a rude taste, and after the Indian fashions. A large dro...

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...t the edges with little tinkling tags something like the stained porcupine quills round an Indian moccasin. There was a hole or slit in the middle of ... ...th a jar of pickles for the steward’s pantry; another time with a bunch of quills for the chief mate’s desk, where he kept his log; a third time with ...

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...ralie are dressing.” Cardot, Camusot, and Matifat disappeared in search of quills, penknives, and everything necessary. Suddenly the door was flung op...

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... “I can sell you a couple of hides a-quiver, ears well pricked, coats like quills, ribs barrel-shaped, and paws so tucked up as scarcely to graze the ...

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...ur before he could write that brief note, and destroyed many scrolls, four quills, and some good white paper—I would have taught him in three weeks a ...

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... ten till one the quill of Wedderburn shrieked defiance at Hill’s, and the quills of the others chased their leaders in a tireless pack, and so also i...

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...way. I rather thought our pretty hostess would be setting up her porcupine quills, and threatening to turn us out of the house if we didn’t mind our m...

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...ng down, transfixed with the arrow. “There, Prior,” said the Captain, “are quills enow to supply all the monks of Jorvaulx for the next hundred years,...

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...ief, draft, brown, white, whitey brown, and blotting; in stamps; in office quills, pens, ink, India rubber, pounce, pins, pencils, sealing wax, and wa...

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...ief, draft, brown, white, whitey brown, and blotting; in stamps; in office quills, pens, ink, India rubber, pounce, pins, pencils, sealing wax, and wa...

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...ying hour, the lightest feather of a falsehood such as thine, than all the quills that have been plucked from the sharp porcupine, reproachful truth, ...

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...is youth One Eye had once sniffed too near a similar, apparently inert ball of quills, and had the tail flick out suddenly in his face. One quill he ha... ...ing as he had crouched once that day, in front of her the tight rolled ball of quills. If he had been a gliding shadow before, he now became the ghost... ...s way of life. Half an hour passed, an hour; and nothing happened. The ball of quills might have been a stone for all it moved; the lynx might have be... ..., the paw would have escaped unscathed; but a side flick of the tail sank sharp quills into it as it was withdrawn. Everything had happened at once, — ... ...onishment. Then she fell to backing away and sneezing, her nose bristling with quills like a monstrous pin cushion. She brushed her nose with her paws... ...h. He walked as delicately as though all the snow were carpeted with porcupine quills, erect and ready to pierce the soft pads of his feet. The porcup... ...d occasional sharp little squeals. In a little while, One Eye noticed that the quills were drooping and that a great quivering had set up. The quiveri... ...an end suddenly. There was a final defiant clash of the long teeth. Then all the quills drooped quite down, and the body relaxed and moved no more. With...

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...an-cub of whom thou hast perhaps heard.” “I heard some news from Ikki (his quills make him presumptuous) of a man-thing that was entered into a wolf p... ... crowded. A big brown fruit-eating bat brushed past his ear; a porcupine’s quills rattled in the thicket; and in the darkness between the tree stems h...

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...till morn went out with sandals grey: He touched the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay: And now the sun had st...

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...bullet killed a large hedgehog more than two feet and eight inches long. The quills were rayed out and flattened on the hinder part of its back, even a... ...e, — and a large, shaggy dog, whose nose, report said, was full of porcupine quills. I can testify that he looked very sober. This is the usual fortun...

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...x, or a dozen of pencils, or a six-bladed knife, or a quarter of a hundred quills,’ at any of the public sale-rooms. He was noted for cheap purchases,...

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...rrowed from the beggars of St. Innocent, and cast them with small canes or quills to write with into the necks of the daintiest gentlewomen that he co... ...intelligences, blunt the spindles, joint the wherves, slander the spinning quills, reproach the bobbins, revile the clew-bottoms, and finally ravel an... ... use is made thereof by tippling sweet-lipped bibbers, who out of it frame quills and pipes, through which they with their liquor-at- tractive breath ...

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...tickle best.’ He chinks his purse, and takes his seat of state: With ready quills the dedicators wait; Now at his head the dext’rous task commence, An...

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...rried onward by thy wings of fancy Swift as the whirlwind, singing in their quills. Look round thee! look within thee! think and feel! What nobler ...

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... in the second, there was very little to inherit beyond a bundle of goose- quills, a quire of white official paper, three pairs of socks, two or three...

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...he feathers well his arrows From the plumage of the swallow, From the wing quills of the sparrow; Hardens well his feathered arrows, And imparts to ea...

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...led the breadth of the margin and the form of handwriting, before the crow-quills were provided and cut into pens, and Indian ink was rubbed, whole we...

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...reverberant voice of Danton; the Hyperion-shafts of Camille; the porcupine-quills of impla- cable Marat:—conceive all this. Constitutionalists in a bo...

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... something; whereat Miss Rich began to flourish one of the very long goose quills which stood in the inkstand before her, chiefly as insignia of offic...

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...nd in this way somewhat softened the hard sharpness of the old porcupine’s quills. But after all this, there was very little to be learned from the ol...