Stand or tray used to house writing instruments.
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Examples for "standish "
Examples for "standish "
1 Here is another letter of Niccolini that has lain in my standish this fortnight.
2 And Rose Standish immediately added the familiar quotation from the Geneva Bible:
3 The Indians had already learned to love and fear Captain Miles Standish .
4 Verena Standish lost her children to it, and now you'll lose Rachel.
5 Vivian Standish grasping the back of a chair, stared in furious amazement.
1 Mr. Spragg pressed the nib of his pen against the dust-coated inkstand .
2 Use an inkstand with broad base as being less liable to upset.
3 Here is an inkstand , here are pens and paper, here are wafers.
4 If I could only shy the inkstand at the English teacher's head!
5 She lingered in the room with the inkstand in her hand.
1 He took his best pencil and poked it down into the inkwell .
2 A bird-like peck at the inkwell , and the pen began to scratch-scratch-scratch.
3 My valise was there; I opened it and took out my inkwell .
4 As she stood up, something caught her eye, jammed in the inkwell .
5 The scribe nervously fingered the globular jade inkwell hanging from his neck.
1 The papal inkstands were all glorious externally; but within the ink was vile.
2 On the table were also large metal inkstands and wooden money-coffers.
3 Very beautiful indeed are some of the old inkstands in their separate vase-like attachments.
4 Fill all the inkstands , and bring me several new pens.
5 Here were inkstands , sloping frames for writing on, and all the instruments of art.
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