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"And in those distant times, while knights and squires rode out to war, and fought and conquered or fought and fell over the possession of a nook in a forest, or a title, or a smaller matter still, with what scorn and contempt did they not look down upon the wretched little scribbler, the man of mere letters and jargon, half-clothed in untanned hides, his only weapon an inkhorn at his belt, his pennon the feather of a goosequill!
"Let him be seated. Stay; young man, show me how you write?" And he threw Gerard a piece of paper, and pointed to an inkhorn. "So please you, reverend father," said Gerard, "my hand it trembleth too much at this moment; but last night I wrote a vellum page of Greek, and the Latin version by its side, to show the various character." "Show it me?"
My mind is tossed with a thousand tormenting thoughts, which are lost the moment they are conceived, to make way for others. So long as my body is influenced by the impressions of my mind, how shall I be able to hold the paper, or guide a reed to write." So saying, he took out of a little desk which was near him, paper, a cane ready cut, and an inkhorn.
Since that time, fortune has betided him and he is become a Sultan, whilst God hath abased me and made me a fisherman: yet I never send to him to seek aught, but he does my desire; nay, though I should ask of him a thousand favours a day, he would comply. When Noureddin heard this, he said, 'Good: write that I may see. So the Khalif took pen and inkhorn and wrote as follows: 'In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful!
"I'll bet he's got nothing more than what he went away with, and that wasn't a sou markee!" A provoking smile flickered at the corners of Shangois's mouth, and he said, with a dry inflection, as he dipped and redipped his quill pen in the inkhorn: "He has a bear, my friends, which dances very well." Farcinelle guffawed. "St.
The king commanded his scrivener to come to him, and on the low wall overlooking the sea the man of inkhorn and goosequill laid his parchment, and wrote a letter to Sir Marhaus at the king's dictation, saying that a knight would battle with him in the morning.
And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me. Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
Mary bent her head over the book that she held in her hand, and writing in the margin, she uttered: 'Pity that such an excellent Latinist should meddle in matters that nothing concern her. Katharine held the inkhorn carefully, as if it had been a precious vase. 'If you will bid me do naught but serve you, I will do naught else, she said. 'I will neither bid thee nor aid thee, Mary answered.
"Thou son of parchment, got betwixt the inkhorn And the stuff'd process-bag that mayest call The pen thy father, and the ink thy mother, The wax thy brother, and the sand thy sister And the good pillory thy cousin allied Rise, and do reverence unto me, thy better!" "Not yet down to the country," said the scrivener, "after every warning?
Genis and sat down at the table, drawing paper, pen and inkhorn toward him, and with clumsy, left hand began laboriously to form written characters, as if St. Genis' presence or departure no longer concerned him. An importunate beggar could not have been more humiliatingly dismissed. St. Genis had flushed to the very roots of his hair.
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