| 单词 | grey-goose weapon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrey-goose weapon C1. General attributive with reference to writing with a quill, as grey-goose pen, grey-goose quill, grey-goose weapon. ΚΠ 1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 178 Cou'd Troy be sav'd by any single hand, This grey-goose-weapon must have made her stand. 1775 P. Duigenan Pranceriana 62 She sends him forth to wield the grey-goose pen. 1781 C. Johnstone Hist. John Juniper II. 1 One of the keenest wits who ever wielded grey-goose quill. 1841 Mus. World 11 Nov. 305 We try our grey-goose pen (having no faith in steel-nibbed acuteness..). 1862 T. C. Grattan Beaten Paths I. i. 2 I recover the grey goose weapon I have so often dipped in ink. 1881 W. S. Symonds Malvern Chase i. 8 While my mother was busy in the long winter nights with her needle or spindle, my father would be engaged with his parchments and grey goose quill. 1921 Amer. Stationer & Office Outfitter 14 May 8/2 Most of these pens look as if they had been plucked from birds of gay plumage and the gray goose quills are painted with butterflies, etc. 2006 ‘C. J. Cherryh’ Fortress of Ice 3 He still had his skill with the sword. He opted now for a gray goose quill. < as lemmas |
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