Crossword-Solution: QUILLS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| QUILLS | anagram | SQUILL |
We have 7 clues for the answer “QUILLS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Feathers used as writing pens | 1 answer |
| Old-timey feathery pens | 1 answer |
| Porcupine cover | 1 answer |
| Porcupine's barbs | 1 answer |
| Spines covering the body of porcupine | 1 answer |
| HARPSICHORD, implement for playing | 2 answers |
| Porcupine's protection | 3 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with QUILLS (5)
Those nut-stealers and pickers of palm leaves have stolen away our man-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 pack, but I did not believe.
Father said there was really no good pen except the quill you sharpened yourself; and while he often used steel ones like we children had at school to write to the brothers and sisters away, and his family, he always kept a few choice quills in the till of his chest, and when he wrote a deed, or any valuable paper, where there was a deal with money, he used them.
She was very skilful at her embroidery, and her brothers all had beautifully worked quivers and bows embossed with porcupine quills.
She had found a small roll of birch-bark in which she kept her porcupine quills for embroidery, and pulled the delicate layers apart.
Now, I have in my possession a fine outfit, and you, my son, shall wear it.” Suiting his action to his words, he drew out a bag from a hollow tree and on opening it, drew out a fine buckskin shirt (tanned white as snow), worked with porcupine quills.
Quotes with QUILLS (3)
I don’t understand how I could have believed you were a warm, affectionate, and tenderhearted person! You’re obviously as prickly as a porcupine and any man who comes close to you will end up with a face full of quills!
I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist. I have peeped shamelessly into hearts and bathroom closets. I have leaned over shoulders to follow the movements of quills as they write love letters, wills and confessions. I have watched as lovers love, murderers murder and children play their make-believe. Prisons and brothels have opened their doors to me; galleons and camel trains have transported me across sea and sand; centuries and continents h…
When I started writing I wanted the best tools. I skipped right over chisels on rocks, stylus on wet clay plates, quills and fountain pens, even mechanical pencils, and went straight to one of the first popular spin-offs of the aerospace program: the ballpoint pen. They were developed for comber navigators in the war because fountain pens would squirt all over your leather bomber jacket at altitude. (I have a cherished example of the next generation ballpoint, a pressurized S…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1997–2024).