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More "Nib" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hum in the air and the nib of the big tube glowed a soft, velvety green. Jim gazed at ...
— Spawn of the Comet • Harold Thompson Rich
... a large number under his tuition, but also that he often competed on an equality with the master. One of the lads who worked there made a pen-drawing of some women, clothed, from a design of Ghirlandajo. Michelangelo took up the paper, and with a broader nib corrected the outline of a female figure, so as to bring it into perfect truth to life. Wonderful it was to see the difference of the two styles, and to note the judgment and ability of a mere boy, so spirited and bold, who had the courage to chastise ...
— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds
... sentence, and looked up impatiently at the intruder on his desperate hurry. Then he motioned Tyrrel into a chair with an imperious wave of his ivory penholder. After that, he went on writing for some moments in solemn silence. Only the sound of his steel nib, traveling fast as it could go over the foolscap sheet, broke for several seconds the ...
— Michael's Crag • Grant Allen
... and dry gangrene of the ears in animals born of parents in which these ear-alterations had been caused by an injury to the restiform body near the nib of the calamus. ...
— The Humour of Homer and Other Essays • Samuel Butler
... afraid to think—but certainly I must not make this note very long. I did intend to write to you to-day in any case. Since Saturday I have had my thanks ready at the end of my fingers waiting to slide along to the nib of my pen. Thank you for all your kindness and criticism, which is kindness too—thank you at last. Would that I deserved the praises as well as I do most of the findings-fault—and there is no time now to say more of them. Yet I believe I have something to say, and will ...
— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) • Frederic G. Kenyon
... a dozen of the latter every ordinary year, and thirteen, perhaps, in the bissextile. So banish that Christmas cloud from your brow; leave off nibbling your pen at the wrong end, and clap a fresh nib to the right one. I have an ...
— Olla Podrida • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)
... for a rarity at the seat of business: it is but little time I can generally command from secular calligraphy—the pen seems to know as much and makes letters like figures—an obstinate clerkish thing. It shall make a couplet in spite of its nib before I have ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 5 • Edited by E. V. Lucas
... made, the man who sold, and the woman who supplied me with my present excruciating gilt nib to that place where the ...
— The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... things. Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen is the right pen. It is right in every way. It is right in every section. You get a nib just right, to suit your hand. It is always there, and you get so used to it, no other pen is right. The ink supply is right—no leaking or blotting, no spurting or smudging. The writing is right. There are no sudden stops. The pen always keeps ...
— The Esperantist, Vol. 1, No. 3 • Various
... good humour for working that day, and I had just dipped the nib of my pen into the ink-bottle when I heard some one ring. Should any one ever read these pages written by an unimaginative old man, he will be sure to laugh at the way that bell keeps ringing through my narrative, without ever announcing the arrival of a new personage ...
— The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard • Anatole France
... who existed in trying the question, and bought litigations?—and still stranger, inimitable, solemn Hepworth, from whose gravity Newton might have deduced the law of gravitation. How profoundly would he nib a pen—with what deliberation would he wet ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb
... return. O'er fair free hills and valleys I can converse and carry on ad lib.; On active tennis-courts (between the rallies) I can be confident, and none more glib; But not in drawing-rooms my bright star dallies— I'm not that sort of nib. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914 • Various
... them capable of. It sort of develops them. Something in the air, don't you know. I imagine that Bicky in the past, when you knew him, may have been something of a chump, but it's quite different now. Devilish efficient sort of chappie, and looked on in commercial circles as quite the nib!" ...
— My Man Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse
... seeks comfort again in the piano and this time starts to play, with one finger and some hesitation, the first bars of a Bach fugue, HORSHAM'S pen-nib is disappointing him and the letter ...
— Waste - A Tragedy, In Four Acts • Granville Barker
... pen and ink and a supply of hotel note paper, which Micky looked at with great satisfaction, before he took up a pen, carefully examined the nib, squared his elbows and began ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
... I'm not the type. You have to have some terrific nib to give away prizes. I seem to remember, when I was at school, it was generally a prime minister ...
— Right Ho, Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse
... continued onward through a low, swampy tract overgrown with black alder and at length reached the "colt pasture," upon a cleared hill. Here a handsome black colt, along with a sorrel and a white one, was feeding, and at once came racing to meet me, in the hope of a nib of provender, or salt. Continuing my voyage of discovery, I came to a tract of woodland beyond the pasture through which a cart road led to a clearing where there was a small old house, deserted, and also a small barn. This, as I had yet to learn, was the "Aunt Hannah lot," an appendage of the ...
— When Life Was Young - At the Old Farm in Maine • C. A. Stephens
... afternoon the Captain settled himself to work, but his reminiscences did not get on. He pinched a bit of floss from the nib of his pen and tried to swing into the period of which he was writing. He read over a few pages of his copy as mental priming, but his thoughts remained flat and dull. Indeed, his whole life, as he reviewed it in the waning afternoon, appeared empty and futile. It seemed hardly worth ...
— Birthright - A Novel • T.S. Stribling
... the smaller points, the "Gillott Crow-quill" is an excellent instrument. The normal thickness of its line is extremely small, but so beautifully is the nib made that it will respond vigorously to a big sweeping stroke. I say a "sweeping stroke," as its capacity is not to be taxed for uniformly big lines. An equally delicate point, which surpasses the crow-quill in range, is "Gillott's Mapping-pen." It is astonishing how ...
— Pen Drawing - An Illustrated Treatise • Charles Maginnis
... days of his youth the old man had been a "Black Nib." The Black Nibs were the persons who agitated against the French war; and the public feeling against them ran strong and deep. In Thrums the local Black Nibs were burned in effigy, and whenever they put their heads out of doors they risked being stoned. Even where the authorities ...
— Auld Licht Idyls • J.M. Barrie
... son-in-law to old Goldsmid, whilom editor of the Anti-Galliean, and for many years an honoured and withal notorious resident of Paris! Of course BEN D'ISRAELI, his Lordship's friend, will get a slice of secretaryship—may be allowed to nib a state quill, if he must not use ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various
... Mr. Taynton had picked up a quill pen, the same with which he had been writing before, for the nib was not yet dry. ...
— The Blotting Book • E. F. Benson
... "I nib my pen and impart to it a fine hair stroke in order that I may give the more delicate touch which can alone show forth the character of this distinguished gentleman. If I hold the pen in hand in idle reverie, it is because my ...
— Something of Men I Have Known - With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective • Adlai E. Stevenson
... When soft, nib through a strainer, add a little boiling water or soup stock, add one and one-half teaspoons of salt, one-half teaspoon of sugar and a speck of white pepper, and beat ...
— The International Jewish Cook Book • Florence Kreisler Greenbaum
... pen in unaccustomed fingers and made a crisscross scrawl, adorned with thirteen blots. The pen nib broke under the strain, and he handed it back with an ...
— Told in the East • Talbot Mundy
... wood is reduced by holding the tool obliquely, and partly because even the sharpest cutting edge is notched with very fine teeth all along its edge so that in the sliding cut it acts like a saw. In an auger-bit, both methods of cutting take place at once. The scoring nib cuts with a sliding cut, while the cutting lip is thrust directly ...
— Handwork in Wood • William Noyes
... Constance, slowly. And she added, pressing the nib of her pen on her finger-nail, "They say he doesn't marry just because he is poor ...
— Our Friend the Charlatan • George Gissing
... Caleb, giving his chair another hitch, dipping his pen afresh into the inkstand, and holding it suspended over the paper, with a threatening drop slowly collecting on the nib. "Now we'll get under weigh just as soon as you ...
— A Noble Woman • Ann S. Stephens
... the man," and the nib of one's pen Makes the same mark at twenty, and threescore and ten; It is so in all matters, if truth may be told; Let one look at the cast he can tell ...
— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... no end gained by taking notes of this reply, so I amused myself by making a good nib to my pen while I waited for something better worth ...
— Henry Dunbar - A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... anecdotes, reports, - Seeks The Owl a maze of courts Which, with aspect towards the west, Fringe the street of Sainted James, Where a warm, secluded nest As his sole domain he claims; From his wing a feather draws, Shapes for use a dainty nib, Pens his parody or squib; Combs his down and trims his claws, And repairs where windows bright Flood the sleepless Square ...
— Biographical Study of A. W. Kinglake • Rev. W. Tuckwell
... the man who made, the man who sold, and the woman who supplied me with my present excruciating gilt nib to that place where ...
— The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... poets speak of a quill dropped from an angel's wing. That is the kind of nib of which I feel in need to-night. If I could but have it just for to-night only,—I would willingly bequeath it to the British Museum to-morrow. As a rule I am very well satisfied with the particular brand of gilt 'J' with which ...
— Prose Fancies • Richard Le Gallienne
... capitals, and certain curious peculiarities in the relative length of his t's, his l's, his b's, and his h's, we could see for ourselves he was right; both were the work of one hand, writing in the one case with a sharp-pointed nib, very small, and in the other with a quill, ...
— An African Millionaire - Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay • Grant Allen
... comfort again in the piano and this time starts to play, with one finger and some hesitation, the first bars of a Bach fugue, HORSHAM'S pen-nib is disappointing him and the letter is not ...
— Waste - A Tragedy, In Four Acts • Granville Barker
... correct shape, is tough and elastic; and now it is put into "tumbling barrels" which revolve till it is bright and ready for the finishing touches. If you look closely at the outside of a steel pen just above the nib, you will see that across it run tiny lines. They have a use, for they hold the ink back so that it will not roll down in drops, and they help to make the point more springy ...
— Makers of Many Things • Eva March Tappan
... of whom Ghirlandajo had a large number under his tuition, but also that he often competed on an equality with the master. One of the lads who worked there made a pen-drawing of some women, clothed, from a design of Ghirlandajo. Michelangelo took up the paper, and with a broader nib corrected the outline of a female figure, so as to bring it into perfect truth to life. Wonderful it was to see the difference of the two styles, and to note the judgment and ability of a mere boy, so spirited ...
— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds
... with a hard lead, Mr. Blensop; which was very foolish of him, since it made a distinct impression on the under sheet. So you see my magic is rather colourless, after all.... Now, a wiser man, Mr. Blensop, would have used a pen, a fountain pen by preference, with a soft gold nib, well broken. That would leave no impression. If you will lend me the beautiful pen I observe in your pocket, I will ...
— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph
... we proceed any further," said the lawyer, at last sitting down, and taking up a pen and trying what the nib was like, "we really should understand a little where we are already. My own desire to avoid litigation is very strong—almost unprofessionally so—though the first thing consulted by all of us naturally is the pocket of ...
— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore
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