Sentence examples for inkpot from inspiring English sources

"Lilibet, goaded by boredom to violent measures, had picked up a big silver inkpot and, without any warning, tipped it over her own head".

The "modern" poets, sensitive to colours, sounds, and shapes, were also fond of writing short poems on unlikely subjects: a well-bred hunting dog or an inkpot; delicious sweetmeats or jaundice; the ascetic who constantly weeps when he remembers his sins; the luxurious garden parties of the rich; an elegy for a cat; or a description of a green ewer.

He picked her up and carefully set her on the desk, then fumbled in the drawer for an inkpot.

Perhaps the choice had something to do with Martin Luther, a 16th century revisionise, who threw an inkpot at the devel for interfering with his work.

Frost's reliance on them… almost gives you the sense that his dipping into this inkpot had to do with the hope of reducing the level of its contents; you detect a sort of vested interest on his part.

Viewers marveled at their ingenuity: The Writer could dip the quill into an inkpot, while his eyes and head followed the movement of his hand.

As the sun rose, I could see Etna, a truncated cone with a plume of smoke over it like the quill of a pen stuck in a pewter inkpot, rising out of the haze to the north of where I was treading water".

The opposite of a deskbound inkpot, he moved around the world, and his pieces were unusually three-dimensional.