Whalebone
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Your quill pen will be
whalebone
, your ink a juice secreted by cuttlefish or squid.
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Nonetheless, even after women gained legal rights – and even as other assumptions about women have gone the way of smelling salts and
whalebone
stays – the condescending Victorian convention of not identifying women who make sex-crime charges remains with us.
Better armed than a baleen whale, whose upper jaw is adorned solely with whalebone, the sperm whale is equipped with twenty-five huge teeth that are twenty centimeters high, have cylindrical, conical summits, and weigh two pounds each.
Its open mouth let water flow through its
whalebone
like a murmuring surf.
Oval, stiffened with whalebone, it began with three round knobs; then came in succession lozenges of velvet and rabbit-skin separated by a red band; after that a sort of bag that ended in a cardboard polygon covered with complicated braiding, from which hung, at the end of a long thin cord, small twisted gold threads in the manner of a tassel.
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