I rimmed the dried-out inkpot with my nail, tracing a path her fingers had taken.
From the npr.org
As a contribution to understanding the West's successes and failures in Bosnia, it has, regrettably, the force of an inkpot thrown from a schooldesk.
From the economist.com
Ansel Adams was the poet of the gray spectrum, the man who dipped the American sublime into the inkpot of black-and-white photography and by that means made it new again.