Ink Bag

Only a portion of the squid remained, and his ink-bag was emptier than ever. ❋ Unknown (2004)

On the outer surface of the mytis runs the intestine; and in contact with this latter is placed the ink-bag, so that it may be removed as far as possible from the mouth and its obnoxious fluid be kept at a distance from the nobler and sovereign part. ❋ Unknown (2002)

In the Calamaries and the Poulps the ink-bag is placed in the upper part of the body, in close proximity to the mytis, whereas in the Sepia it is lower down, against the stomach. ❋ Unknown (2002)

He describes the funnel and its relation to the mantle-sac, and the ink-bag, which he shows to be largest in Sepia of all others. ❋ Various (N/A)

The sepia of the artist comes from a mollusk, and is the fossil or extant ink-bag of a cephalopod or squid, while the cuttle-fish bone is used for a variety of purposes. ❋ Various (N/A)

He's a cuttle, that's what he is; and I'll have his ink-bag out of him in a brace of shakes; just the ticket for tattooing, Miss, as good as the best Indian-ink -- gunpowder is ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

Meanwhile, Bill had drawn out the ink-bag of the cuttle, had prepared a little round fragment of wood which he sharpened like a pencil by rubbing it against a stone, and had put a keen edge on to a long white fishbone that he had selected. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

"Oh! I know what that is -- all long legs and suckers, and got an ink-bag and a pen in its body." ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

This sac is called the ink-bag, and the liquid is employed for the manufacture of the India ink. ❋ Unknown (1858)

The creature had an ink-bag, with which it could muddle the water around it, to protect itself from more powerful animals, and, strange to say, this has been found so well preserved that an artist has used it in one instance as a paint, wherewith to delineate the belemnite itself. ❋ Robert Chambers (1836)