You're one of our breed, Armstrong -- yellow dog of the yellow dog quill-driving tribe -- and your comrades haven't the gentlemanly instinct of the Constantinople cur. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)
They lifted their heads from their quill-driving to look at the poor woman as she went by. ❋ Mary E. Mann (N/A)
But all this is good fun enough, compared to the quill-driving in Grahamstown. ❋ Unknown (1903)
Even if I had been able to write a good hand and keep accounts I couldn't have brought myself to think that quill-driving and counting other people's money was a fit employment for a man. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)
But the day of reckoning was at hand, and soon there would be nothing left of the great philosopher but a quill-driving buffoon. ❋ Arthur Schnitzler (1896)
Vernon's friends and kinsmen enjoy, by her being born one of their Helots; but spare me the utterance, my good friend, and let us try whether we shall agree better on the second count of my indictment against fortune, as that quill-driving puppy would call it. ❋ Unknown (1887)
But, first of all, I must tell you that I am a clerk in the Admiralty, where our chiefs, the commissioners, take their gold lace as quill-driving officials seriously, and treat us like forecastle men on board a ship. ❋ Guy De Maupassant (1871)
And you're a confoundedly clever fellow into the bargain, or you wouldn't be quill-driving for ❋ George Meredith (1868)
Rough as the life is, it is a man's life, and a week of it is worth more than a year's quill-driving in an office. ❋ Unknown (1867)
He is an original, spontaneous genius and not, like most of his contemporaries, a disputatious, quill-driving theorist, [3143] that is to say, a fanatical pedant, an artificial being composed of his books, a mill-horse with blinkers, and turning around in a circle without an issue. ❋ Hippolyte Taine (1860)
There are stories going about him as a quill-driving alien, ❋ George Eliot (1849)
Plant you on a high stool, and set you quill-driving. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
He did not again allude to the high stool and quill-driving, but his remark had made a deep impression on my mind. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
Cassiodorus and all quill-driving schoolmasters and lawyers -- the two classes of men whom the Goths hated especially, and at the end to which they by their pedantries had brought imperial Rome? ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)
It is astonishing, in that breathless interval of history, that so much time could be found for quill-driving and oratory. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)
From the winter's night in which the subtle Franciscan had first stolen into the prince's cabinet down to this autumn evening, not a step of real progress could be recorded as the result of the intolerable quantity of speech-making and quill-driving. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)
