Length -- 4.5 inches. About two inches smaller than the English sparrow. Male -- Grayish blue above, dull grayish white below. Grayish tips on wings. Tail with white outer quills changing gradually through black and white to all black on centre quills. Narrow black band over the forehead and eyes. Resembles in manner and form a miniature catbird. Female -- More grayish and less blue, and without the black on head.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
Length -- 7 to 8 inches. About one-fifth smaller than the robin. Male -- Head, throat, upper part of back glossy black. Wings black, with white spots and edgings. Tail-quills black, with yellow markings on the tips. Everywhere else orange, shading into flame. Female -- Yellowish olive. Wings dark brown, and quills margined with white.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
After the crowd had dispersed, Solomon John sat down to think of his writing again. Agamemnon agreed to go over to the bookstore to get a quill. They all went over with him. The bookseller was just shutting up his shop. However, he agreed to go in and get a quill, which he did, and they hurried home.英文原著 · 《The Peterkin Papers》
A proud and happy child I was, when I was permitted to dip a goose quill into an inkstand, and make written letters, instead of printing them with a pencil on a slate.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
She compared him to others, two or three dandies in Paris, clerks, quill-drivers, or what not, who had pestered her with their attentions, for the sake of her money. He seemed to be the best, as well as the most handsome, man she had ever met.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
How we looked for "R. S." at the end of an article, and how devout was our belief, how happy our pride, in the young one! About 1878, I think (I was now a slave of the quill myself), I received a brief note from Mr. Stevenson, introducing to me the person whom, in his essay on his old college magazine, he called "Glasgow Brown." What his real name was, whence he came, whence the money came, I never knew. was going to start a weekly Tory paper. Would I contribute? came to see me. Stevenson has described him, NOT as I would have described him: like Mr.英文原著 · 《Adventures among Books》
Goose Quill is publishing her memoir on how she got through 9/11.美剧 · 《Billions》