The Devil's Dictionary: Quill

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
QUEEN
QUIVER

QUILL

-n.

An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.

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