"For whom did it concern to know that one or another scribbler was a dunce?". From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Johnson and His Circle] Reference
The subject itself had nothing generally interesting, for whom did it concern to know that one or another scribbler was a dunce?. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope] Reference
If "scribbler" is a writer, why could not "bad writer" be omitted?. From Wordnik.com. [Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget] Reference
You don't have to be a professional scribbler to get this. From Wordnik.com. [Richard C. Morais: The Poetry of Pork] Reference
Whether it was some crackbrain scribbler who tried to prove Poe. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
Your scribbler is on the road again, college hunting once more. From Wordnik.com. [Atom smashers and college crashers] Reference
He tore a sheet from his scribbler and passed it down, whispering: —. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference
It's not that I changed from an evil drug dealer into a dull scribbler. From Wordnik.com. [Why Men Need Family Values] Reference
Despite Milo's death, I was prepared to exonerate the scribbler anyway. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
He'd give that to have the pleasure of running the scribbler through the body. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
The brief, loud confrontation did serve to distract the scribbler from his work. From Wordnik.com. [Glory Lane]
It was, as a fellow scribbler put it to me afterwards, a seven out of ten speech. From Wordnik.com. [Miliband’s performance] Reference
But what, it may be asked, moves any follower of the Muses to satirise a scribbler?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
He recognised that Vane, poverty stricken scribbler though he might be, was a gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
It probably has a metaphor involving a scribbler thrown onto the track bed of the subway. From Wordnik.com. [sirilyan Diary Entry] Reference
In answer and in ridicule of which, a second scribbler penned the following stanzas beneath. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference
"S'life," he burst out, "save your nails for the girl who's cut you out with the scribbler.". From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
( "Can you keep the word 'Blair' out of your lede?" one scribbler was told by his news desk.). From Wordnik.com. [I Did It My Way] Reference
I cringed when he said this, for I knew I was at best a journeyman scribbler, at worst a hack. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico]
A drivelling scribbler, not a foot from the ground, pimples all over his mug and his neck awry!. From Wordnik.com. [The Witch, and other stories] Reference
If you had predicted this two decades ago, our collegiate scribbler would have called you racist. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Fruit] Reference
Perhaps we should examine our stable of scribbler-clients and look at our policy of almost limitless patronage. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
Welburn has come a long way from the living-room floor with Dad, but he hasn't lost touch with his inner scribbler. From Wordnik.com. [Trailblazer By Design] Reference
Call Shake - speare a casualty of progress, a moldy scribbler, an emperor unclothed - but do not call him to account. From Wordnik.com. [The Bard Bytes Dust, by Charles Burress] Reference
“Well, now you must try and sleep and forget all this nonsense, scribbler!” he exclaimed, and lay down on the bed. From Wordnik.com. [Virgin Soil] Reference
"If I ever catch up with this tripe scribbler for the Observer I'll turn him into a musical top-upside down on the ceiling!". From Wordnik.com. [Horn : Green]
Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. From Wordnik.com. [The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money] Reference
Mrs. Reeves, knowing well what a scribbler I am, and am expected to be, has provided me with pen, ink, and paper, in abundance. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
If a dreadful scribbler like Robert J. Sawyer can win a major SF writing award, there's something terribly wrong with the world. From Wordnik.com. [It’s Official – All SFF Awards Are Useless] Reference
"What a study for the thoughtless; what a sermon on the inevitable result of human vanity!" was the ghoulish comment of a scribbler. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
“I do not know,” said I, blushing as became a young scribbler, “how you should be so well acquainted with my truant studies.”. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy] Reference
Vanity is their universal foible, from him who decorated the shades of Twickenham, to the veriest scribbler whom he has lashed in his. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy] Reference
Mr. Quinn is another strong presence, and a witty one when his fatuous scribbler is working a room like a road company Norman Mailer. From Wordnik.com. ['Hubble': Heavenly Ticket to Space] Reference
Why not let the scribbler take her way -- and the world know that vineyards are green, and the sky blue, if it desires the knowledge?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
Neither have we the blood-thirsty wish to run to ground the panting scribbler, or to adorn ourselves with the glories of his 'brush.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
It is perhaps a shame to forestall the acerbities of these ingenious gentlemen, but we know they will call us "anonymous scribbler," and. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
"Dale hates his fellow-human - beings," wrote some anonymous scribbler, and, even expressed thus baldly, the statement is not wholly false. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Ship] Reference
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