ink-well

Example Sentences

• "After settling into his seat he suddenly finds that there is scarcely any ink in his ink-well, and he promptly takes advantage of the fact to make a journey across the room to procure the ink-pot, […] busily engaged in drawing a head on the brass square of his ink-well."
• "(If Mr. Crawford has any more tales of lonely parishes in his ink-well, more than one of his readers would be grateful if he would write them out.) Just now the ink-well appears to need replenishing, for “Fair Margaret” is dry and dreggy."
• "Having learned in this way how to dip his pen, the pupil should next dip it in his ink-well and write."
• "In the library a lamp stood on a tripod of hooves, once those of a deer, and on the writing-table, furnished with the thickest of inlaid writing-papers, was an ink-well made from another, larger hoof, perhaps that of the moose in the hall, king of all these relics."
• "For what makes happy the one we adore makes us happy; what not, not; the universe is a void, an ink-well otherwise."
• "It may indeed feel uncomfortably small if, say, from the finding of the scrolls it is inferred directly that the ink-wells found at Qumran belonged to scribes who used them to copy scrolls, and from the finding of the ink-wells it is inferred directly that the site was a scribal center."