...de Rivarol sat back in his chair, the feathered end of a quill between his teeth... 
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
...It is most important to have by you a man who understands how to cut a quill, as I shall remember when I turn author...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...In size they areabout an inch in length, and as fine as a common knitting needle;but they are capable of distension till they equal a quill inthickness, and attain a length of nearly two inches...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...Wings and quills fulvous green, the latter tipt with black, and all the inner shafts more or less rufous: the second quill longest, and the lesser quills and tail-feathers notched at their tips...
William Swainson 「Zoological Illustrations, Volume I」
...There is the least appearance of quill and plumageof any of our birds, and, with all its speedand marvelous evolutions, the effect of its flightis stiff and wiry...
John Burroughs 「Bird Stories from Burroughs」
...I shall go back for the others when the young birds have their quill feathers...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...The larva of the Tiger Beetle (Cicindela campestris) constructs a hole about the size of a feather quill, disposed vertically, and of a depth, enormous for its size, of forty centimetres...
Frédéric Houssay 「The Industries of Animals」
...It was strangelywritten, evidently not with a quill...
Various 「Astounding Stories, May, 1931」
...The nests they construct are made of sticks, varying inlength from three inches to three feet, and in thickness from the size ofa quill to the size of the thumb...
Charles Sturt 「Expedition into Central Australia」
...Inhabits the brushes in the Darling, in which it builds a nest of smallsticks, varying in length from eight inches to three, and in thickness,from that of a quill to that of the thumb...
Charles Sturt 「Expedition into Central Australia」
...It has a black horse-shoe on the breast, thebelly being white, and the quill feathers are grey with a small brownspot on each...
Charles Sturt 「Expedition into Central Australia」
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