How To Use Nibbed In A Sentence
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Blake snibbed the lock on the door and walked across to where she stood, her slender back to his heavily laden desk.
Mistress For A Weekend
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The fountain pen, equipped with a reusable cartridge for holding a large supply of ink to be steadily fed to the nib, was a late 19c advance on the basic metal-nibbed pen.
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It's only ever happened once, and that was only because a visitor snibbed a lock that wasn't meant to be snibbed.
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I got into my room and snibbed the door.
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I started my writing life in the 1940s as an elementary student at the Washington School in Medford, Massachusetts, using a steel-nibbed pen and an inkwell, so I have lived through every technology.
Fiction in the Age of E-Books
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Once inside the rest room she snibbed the door and turned the tap over the washbasin full on to cover any sound.
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He was "snibbed," confined to his diocese, and "cast down, yea, lower than the dust," wrote Rothes to Lauderdale.
A Short History of Scotland
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a broad-nibbed pen
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Doors were never locked, nor windows ever snibbed and I cannot remember any house being burgled.
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There, with the door snibbed, he opened out on Tammas, who, after his usual manner when hard pressed, pretended to be deaf.
Auld Licht Idyls
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I'm not a saw collector, but for no particular reason I've started accumulating saws that have interesting handles (rosewood, etc.) and those that have nibbed blades, which I thought tended to indicate age.
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Latin scribes held their stiff-nibbed reed pens almost directly upright and at right angles to the writing surface, so that a down stroke from left to right and slanted at an angle of about forty-five degrees would bring the nib across the surface broadwise, resulting in the widest line possible to the pen.
Letters and Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples
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Hannah nodded, tiptoed across the cabin, snibbed the door quickly behind her.
Kate Morton Ebook Collection
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'I should ha' forgot it; I should certainly ha' forgot it!' said Sam; so saying, he at once stepped into the stationer's shop, and requested to be served with a sheet of the best gilt-edged letter- paper, and a hard-nibbed pen which could be warranted not to splutter.
Lance Mannion:
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Kara unclipped and held her weapon out in front of herself, left hand over right wrist and shuffled through dust and orange nibbed needles.
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Just to be sure that it was "snibbed," Mrs. McGuire tiptoed after him in her bare feet, a very bad thing for
Sowing Seeds in Danny
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Just to be sure that it was "snibbed," Mrs. McGuire tiptoed after him in her bare feet, a very bad thing for a sick-a-bed lady to do, too, but to her credit, be it written, she did not listen at the keyhole.
Sowing Seeds in Danny
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'I should ha' forgot it; I should certainly ha' forgot it!' said Sam; so saying, he at once stepped into the stationer's shop, and requested to be served with a sheet of the best gilt-edged letter- paper, and a hard-nibbed pen which could be warranted not to splutter.
Lance Mannion:
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I crept into the shared bathroom, snibbed the doors and tried to make as little noise as possible while showering.
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After the telephone conversation I drafted the memo to Dot using my broad nibbed fountain pen which Eddie Jordan had been using.
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And it's impossible the man can have opened a snibbed windie and got in, with some one sitting in the room, and no alarm given.
Simon
