Meanings of inkstands in английском

The papal inkstands were all glorious externally; but within the ink was vile.

On the table were also large metal inkstands and wooden money-coffers.

Very beautiful indeed are some of the old inkstands in their separate vase-like attachments.

Fill all the inkstands, and bring me several new pens.

Here were inkstands, sloping frames for writing on, and all the instruments of art.

Men of letters put their blood into their inkstands, but the sacrifice is poorly recognised.

That you will do anything, sweep, fill the inkstands, mucilage-bottles, run errands, and be generally useful.

And, of course, the feet of one's first rhino are always saved for cigar boxes or inkstands.

There was a period when Keith seriously believed that all specimens of the keramic art were inkstands in disguise.

What velvet-bound volumes, mother-of-pearl albums, inkstands representing beasts of the field, prie-dieu chairs, and wonderful knick-knacks I can recollect!

An old office room, with leather-covered chairs, and empty inkstands, and dry pens, and forgotten day-books of forgotten days!

The only persons one saw there were a couple of attendants who were laying out new pens and filling inkstands.

Indeed, in those days people did not dream of writing-tables, and inkstands, and portfolios, and easy chairs, and what not.

Bob showed his college diploma, and accepted a position filling inkstands in a lawyer's office at $15 a week.

In addition to the minerals used for cabinet specimens, etc., there is a great demand for making clocks, inkstands, and other objects.

There was a large table covered with numerous vials and beakers, scrolls and writing quills and inkstands, and a huge round scrying crystal.