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Example sentences for "inkstands"

Lexicographically close words:
inkling; inklings; inkpot; inks; inkstand; inkwell; inky; inlaid; inland; inlarge
  1. Manufacturers of inkstands in Connecticut write: "We employ from twelve to fifteen American women in painting, varnishing, and bronzing inkstands, and pay from fifty to sixty cents per day of ten hours.

  2. The boys were going to the temple to lay their inkstands before the queer image of the Goddess of Learning, as was the custom on this holiday festival.

  3. Mahala, after they had dutifully laid their inkstands before the queer image of Sarasvati.

  4. Her light hand, hovering hither and thither, had by a series of cunning manoeuvres got the offending object behind a pile of duodecimos, and was now withdrawing it stealthily among the inkstands and paperweights.

  5. I wished to ask you about those inkstands and the pens that were on the shelf over there.

  6. Saunders, pointing to the inkstands and the boxes of pens.

  7. While thus engaged, Hal saw the book-keeper transfer the inkstands and the boxes of pens to his overcoat pocket.

  8. On a small shelf over one of the desks rested two new inkstands and several boxes of pens.

  9. And you think the inkstands and pens have something to do with the matter?

  10. Look here," he pointed to the inkstands and the pens.

  11. Hal had the inkstands and the pens in his overcoat pocket, and he at once handed them over, much to Mr. Sumner's astonishment.

  12. Among the rarer examples may be classed inkstands and writing-table appointments.

  13. Seeing these desks, with inkstands sunk into their tops, and special grooves for the penholders, and lids that could be raised, Keith knew that he must pass the examinations or die from a broken heart.

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

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

  16. Other inkstands are single, little round boxes of bronze, in shape like a large pill-box.

  17. The inkstands of ancient scribes were commonly made double, to hold both black and red ink.

  18. See above, pages 29 and 30, on the pens and inkstands of the classical scribes.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inkstands" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.