In the Middle Ages, a scrivener was needed to copy text. From LearnThat.org.
Yesterday's term was scrivener, which is defined as. From Wordnik.com. [Define That Term #29] Reference
John Milton was the son of a London scrivener, that is, a kind of lawyer. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
I saw that morning persuaded me that the scrivener was the victim of innate and incurable disorder. From Wordnik.com. [The Piazza Tales] Reference
What I saw that morning persuaded me that the scrivener was the victim of innate and incurable disorder. From Wordnik.com. [Bartleby, the Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street] Reference
A scrivener is a scribe, no?. From Wordnik.com. [Define That Term #28] Reference
'Ay, or clairt,' suggested a thin-faced scrivener. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
The scrivener himself seemed considerably agitated. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
The scrivener professed the most implicit obedience. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
The wretched scrivener was with him that morning, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
And yet the scrivener considered him a good apprentice. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
“Go to your desk without, child,” said the scrivener. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
My tongue is the pen of a scrivener that writeth swiftly. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
"Twice what they were last year, " admitted the scrivener. From Wordnik.com. [Wellspring of Chaos]
"Oh, Your Mightiness ... what can this humble scrivener -". From Wordnik.com. [Colors of Chaos]
Shouldn't be a problem, though, seeing you were a scrivener. From Wordnik.com. [Colors of Chaos]
Perhaps you should have been a scrivener, or even a justicer. From Wordnik.com. [Wellspring of Chaos]
It had gone the way of the gasoline pumper and the scrivener. From Wordnik.com. [The Oaten Hands] Reference
So I could just be another junior majer acting as a scrivener. From Wordnik.com. [Scion of Cyador]
"I did spend a little time with a scrivener," Cerryl admitted. From Wordnik.com. [Colors of Chaos]
“What would you have me to do, my lord?” said the scrivener. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
“He is well accompanied,” added the scrivener; “but yet —”. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
“I see not how it can advantage you, captain,” said the scrivener. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
A sense of sadness passed through him as he thought of another scrivener. From Wordnik.com. [Wellspring of Chaos]
“Your lordship knows best,” answered the scrivener, in great perturbation. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
Ruth Marcus compares Mr. Gonzales to Melville's "maddening scrivener" Bartleby. From Wordnik.com. [Today's Hot Topics: Bring Me The Head of Alberto Gonzales] Reference
The existence of the poorest play-wright and the humblest scrivener is a good omen. From Wordnik.com. [Uncollected Prose] Reference
Though I am a scrivener and not a sketchman, I think the general idea has been cast. From Wordnik.com. [The Astounding Adventures of Cyril Bright] Reference
A scrivener at the National Review on why they like Sarah Palin instead of smug elites. From Wordnik.com. [Lloyd Alter: Working Americans Love Sarah Palin Because She Shoots Wolves from Airplanes] Reference
So does this mean that the publishers are doomed, and every scrivener will do a Stephen?. From Wordnik.com. [The Book On The Future] Reference
“And of resting” — continued the scrivener, — “resting a space at Camlet Moat.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
Should he seek passage to Vizyn, and seek out Taleas, the scrivener whom Tyrbel had written?. From Wordnik.com. [Wellspring of Chaos]
He started, like Lousteau or Vernou, to be a great writer; he finds himself a feeble scrivener. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference
“I — I,” — stammered the surprised scrivener — “I cannot guess what you mean, sir.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
One of them pronounced that Honore was worth nothing better than to make a scrivener of or a clerk in some. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac] Reference
Lucy plays scrivener on our walkway patience for the avocado to sprout the only pumpkin grown in Venice, CA. From Wordnik.com. [stop me if you think you've heard this one before] Reference
So saying, he seized the scrivener by the collar, and shook him so vehemently, that he tore it from the cassock. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
I have in one case used a scrivener when it was expedient; in others they have written their accounts themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Stream and The Torrent (1st prologue)] Reference
Without answering a single word, the scrivener sat down, and drew in proper form a full receipt for the money proffered. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
The scrivener did look up accordingly, with the action of an automaton which suddenly obeys the impulse of a pressed spring. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
Every body was silent for an instant; the king was first to speak, commanding search instantly to be made for the guilty scrivener. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
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