standish
IPA: stˈændɪʃ
noun
- (obsolete) A stand to hold ink, pens, and other writing accessories; an inkstand.
- A small town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.
- A small village and civil parish in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8008).
- A city, the county seat of Arenac County, Michigan, United States.
- A surname.
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Examples of "standish" in Sentences
- There was an old standish on the mantelshelf containing a dusty apology for all three.
- My contact information is readily available at my web site: http: www. grisda.org/standish/
- Swift his “large silver standish, consisting of a large silver plate, an ink-pot, and a sand-box.”
- Patrick the puppy put too much ink in my standish, [5] and, carrying too many things together, I spilled it on my paper and floor.
- The gnarled finger plucked another sheet from a pigeonhole, dipped the pen in the standish again, and rewrote the words as surely as the first time.
- At her first attempt, she began to write with a dry pen, and when the circumstance was pointed out, seemed unable, after several attempts, to dip it in the massive silver ink-standish, which stood full before her.
- And away went the dear girl, very sorrowful, carrying down with her my standish, and all its furniture, and a little parcel of pens beside, which having been seen when the great search was made, she was bid to ask for.
- On one side stood an ink-standish with paper; and behind this desk appeared the conjurer himself, in sable vestments, his head so overshadowed with hair, that, far from contemplating his features, Timothy could distinguish nothing but a long white beard, which, for aught he knew, might have belonged to
- I live in intimate friendship, to come into my house, where I am surrounded with my servants, I rest assured that he is not to stab me before he leaves it in order to rob me of my silver standish; and I no more suspect this event than the falling of the house itself, which is new, and solidly built and founded. —
- But, to confess to you the truth, the works and passages in which I have succeeded, have uniformly been written with the greatest rapidity; and when I have seen some of these placed in opposition with others, and commended as more highly finished, I could appeal to pen and standish, that the parts in which I have come feebly off, were by much the more laboured.
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