My amanuenses, my copyists, in Washington, have cost me a mint of money.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference

My idea of running amanuenses is by praise, not pudding, flattery and not coins!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vailima Letters] Reference

My two female amanuenses are busy with friends, and I fear this scrawl will give you much trouble to read.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference

For the mechanical part he employed, as he told me, six amanuenses; and let it be remembered by the natives of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.] Reference

Dictionary L1575 (heavy out-payments to amanuenses).    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Johnson]

Francis Stuart or Stewart was one of Johnson's amanuenses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc.] Reference

How do you all do, amanuenses both -- marital and sororal?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference

Most of the amanuenses employed for his Dictionary were Scotch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samuel Johnson]

Mr. Peyton, one of his original amanuenses, was writing for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776] Reference

They were all in his own handwriting or in that of his amanuenses.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

He appears to have kept amanuenses to copy interesting manuscripts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography] Reference

Dictionary, Johnson's, the amanuenses and contractors chiefly Scotch, i.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Johnson]

The amanuenses to whom he dictated were not equally qualified for their task.    From Wordnik.com.  [The John Lawson Monographs of the Trinity College Historical Society Durham, North Carolina Vol. 1. The Autobiography of Brantley York] Reference

Have real employments contributed to it? original makers, not mere amanuenses?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman] Reference

Have real employments contributed to it? original makers—not mere amanuenses?.    From Wordnik.com.  [As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario’s Shores] Reference

Have real employments contributed to it -- original makers, not mere amanuenses?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mince Pie] Reference

Who are these so-called progressive reporters, conservative amanuenses in disguise?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Latest on Air America] Reference

But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Purchase Price] Reference

He frequently kept seven amanuenses actively employed; it was said he became the author of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

Thirty amanuenses had been employed in copying MSS. and illuminating them by the finest art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference

He could dictate to five several amanuenses at the same time, and each on a different subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers.] Reference

The want of amanuenses, and of other attentions and comforts, seems to have deeply affected him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance] Reference

Fifth, amanuenses and editors take deplorable liberties in revising, so that the text is not always authentic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

The Legend of Montrose, and Ivanhoe, all of 1819, were dictated to amanuenses, while he was too ill to hold a pen.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature] Reference

There seems also an inclination on the part of gentlemen requiring private secretaries or amanuenses to employ ladies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman's Advocate.] Reference

If I had been doing my work in the city, he could have found me stenographers, amanuenses, or type-writers by the hundred.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of Martha] Reference

From the constant use of amanuenses it often resulted that no direct evidence of authorship existed beyond the appended seal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference

He could dictate to half a dozen amanuenses at once, on as many different subjects, in as many different languages, and send them all away exhausted.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

To my three friends who, by generously acting as amanuenses, have made it possible that the book should be finished, I take pleasure in gratefully dedicating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philistines] Reference

Ambrosius six or seven amanuenses) and digest his notes as best he might.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

With the help of his amanuenses, Owen completed and published, in 1677, “The.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Dr Owen] Reference

"enthusiastic young men who accounted it a privilege to read to him, or act as his amanuenses, or hear him talk.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of John Milton] Reference

Bride of Lammermoor, "was written, or rather dictated to amanuenses, during a period of great physical suffering.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction] Reference

N. - (pl. amanuenses), employee who writes from dictation; secretary. adj. - eternally beautiful; unfading; everlasting amaryllis.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference