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A few of the words
- QUILL
- For centuries, the quill — trimmed from a large feather, usually goose or swan — was the primary writing instrument of poets and scholars across Europe and America.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- STANZA
- The word 'stanza' comes from the Italian for 'room,' and that's exactly what it is: a self-contained space within a poem where an idea can breathe and settle.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- MANUSCRIPT
- Before the printing press, every manuscript was copied by hand — 'manuscript' itself comes from the Latin manu scriptum, meaning 'written by hand.'Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- TOME
- A 'tome' originally referred to one volume of a multi-part work — a single, substantial book in what might be a much longer series.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Famous authors word search — free and large-print — dip into the world of the quill, the manuscript, and the voices that shaped storytelling.
About Mind & Trivia
Every great novel begins the same way: a blank page, a pen, and one person determined to fill the silence with story. From the candlelit drafts of Jane Austen to the typewriter-hammered prose of Ernest Hemingway, the tools have changed but the craft has not. A single stanza of poetry or a sweeping chapter of fiction can hold an entire world inside it — and the authors who built those worlds left fingerprints on the language we still speak today.
How to play
- 1Find a word from the list.Press the first letter and drag to the last — across, down or diagonally, forwards or back. Or tap the first letter, then the last.
- 2It stays marked.Found words get a soft teal line through them, on the grid and in the list.
- 3Make it comfortable.Use the A / A+ / A++ size control any time, or pinch the grid for a closer look.
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