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  • It was built out of hand-peeled full-length logs, every one scribed for a perfect fit.†   (source)
  • Bram can't remember whether he finished writing his assignment on his scribe.†   (source)
  • "Scribing pays better than I thought," he said as he began to count out shares to his men.†   (source)
  • Only when they had their first child did they realize, after a casual conversation, that their letters had been written by the same scribe, and for the first time they went together to the Arcade to ask him to be the child's godfather.†   (source)
  • She wrote with the quiet deliberation of a court scribe, sharpening her pencil often.†   (source)
  • It was as if the limb had fallen asleep, save for the sharp, burning lines scribed into her flesh.†   (source)
  • I can flip it backwards and scribe in the markings, okay?†   (source)
  • He de-scribed how he would ride the horse if given the chance.†   (source)
  • Its southern scribe appended this note: Findegil, King's Writer, finished this work in IV 172.†   (source)
  • If you were a feeble scribe, I would never consent to our marriage.†   (source)
  • The raw-file printouts from the data banks de scribed in detail the facts and speculations that resulted in the negative evaluation of each individual.†   (source)
  • Just beyond stood Scribe's Hearth, where Oldtowners came in search of acolytes to write their wills and read their letters.†   (source)
  • We ate the food in near silence, the Korean family way, bent over the steaming crocks and dishes like scribing monks.†   (source)
  • Another Virginian, though, a captain in one of the regiments that burned Chambersburg, Pennsylvania in 1864, de- scribed that event with pleasure in a letter to a cousin: "Our men soon became drunk & mad for plunder.†   (source)
  • "And you, scribe!" he continued, turning his attention to me.†   (source)
  • After more description of his woes, the scribe ends with, 'My god, it is you I fear.†   (source)
  • I am mistress of the elements, Scribe of the First Nome.†   (source)
  • It's from some kind of port or scribe, but something about it seems foreign.†   (source)
  • He sharpened a quill with his small pen knife to scribe these things in sloe or lampblack?†   (source)
  • He motioned Chronicler closer, and the scribe saw he was wearing thick leather gloves.†   (source)
  • His fingers tap on the scribe; he jiggles one foot impatiently, always ready to know more.†   (source)
  • The Egyptian word shesh means scribe or writer, but it can also mean magician.†   (source)
  • It was written in an old scribe's hand, spidery and hard to follow "It looks like a memoir."†   (source)
  • There weren't any games on the scribe, of course.†   (source)
  • Then, much to the scribe's dismay, he picked up the shirt Chronicler had bought back in Linwood.†   (source)
  • You could look at the letters on your scribe or your reader.†   (source)
  • Until he mentioned it, I didn't underaaaaggghhhh!" the scribe shouted, jerking away from Bast.†   (source)
  • The scribe's stare was intense, but the mercenary didn't seem to notice.†   (source)
  • I had known a way to play games on the scribe.†   (source)
  • Kvothe asked after the scribe was wearing his shirt again.†   (source)
  • I gather my reader and scribe, dropping them into my bag with my tablet container.†   (source)
  • The little scribe had a sweet, strong voice.†   (source)
  • "On Naath there are butterflies," the scribe responded in the Common Tongue.†   (source)
  • " 'From the tomb of the scribe Ipi,' " I read aloud.†   (source)
  • They needed a scribe of the old order to direct the scribes of the new order.†   (source)
  • The Naathi scribe moved closer to the bed.†   (source)
  • "The best horse," wrote turf scribe Salvator, "was unjustly beaten."†   (source)
  • The picture on the gravestone showed the deceased scribe honoring Anubis.†   (source)
  • The little scribe with the big golden eyes was wise beyond her years.†   (source)
  • "Come sleep with me," she told the little scribe.†   (source)
  • This bloke Ipi was a scribe, which was another word for magician.†   (source)
  • "I call that madness, not courage," said Arstan Whitebeard, when the solemn little scribe was done.†   (source)
  • "A tree in the shade," the attorney went on, attempting to pacify the scribe.†   (source)
  • That's three things," said the other scribe.†   (source)
  • Her sweet scribe Missandei as well, and all her little pages.†   (source)
  • "How can that be?" she demanded through the scribe.†   (source)
  • "I don't know, I wasn't there," said the scribe.†   (source)
  • Only the little scribe Missandei seemed to share the queen's misgivings.†   (source)
  • The tiny Naathi scribe looked up at his approach.†   (source)
  • "Singers come an hour before noon," the mustachioed scribe answered, still working.†   (source)
  • She relied so much on the little scribe that she oft forgot that Missandei had only turned eleven.†   (source)
  • A scribe at one of the many long tables had asked permission to pee, and Orfeo had granted it.†   (source)
  • "Go back to Rome and die," said the old scribe.†   (source)
  • That is the mark of an old order scribe-consistency.†   (source)
  • When I served in my father's law office, God help me, I worked as a scribe.†   (source)
  • He held a scribe's stylus in one hand, and an open scroll in the other, as if he had just written the hieroglyphs inscribed there: an ankh—the Egyptian looped cross—with a rectangle traced around its top.†   (source)
  • That was also the day he would receive his reader and scribe, but Bram didn't care one bit about that part of it.†   (source)
  • Bast leaned forward, slapped Chronicler's hand away, and grabbed the circle of dark metal before the scribe could move.†   (source)
  • The innkeeper nodded to the scribe.†   (source)
  • I shoved the bag into his arms and whispered into his ear, "I know a way to play games on the scribe."†   (source)
  • I feel embarrassed, as though I am a child who has tapped out these words on her scribe and held them out for a boy in her First School class to read.†   (source)
  • The scribe gave another startled yelp.†   (source)
  • No reader, no scribe.†   (source)
  • The scribe glanced at the sword hanging over the bar and drew a deep breath, his expression becoming vaguely anxious.†   (source)
  • As Chronicler stared dumbly at the ruined weapon, the mercenary took a step forward and laid his empty hand lightly on the scribe's shoulder.†   (source)
  • Everyone turned to look at the scribe.†   (source)
  • The scribe panicked and tried to scrabble sideways out of the bed, but Bast took hold of his shoulder and held him fast.†   (source)
  • Standing awkwardly, still gripping the hilt of the man's sword, the scribe tugged harder and the sword pulled slowly free.†   (source)
  • Bast mixed the salve and smeared the foul-smelling concoction onto the scribe's shoulder before wrapping a bandage around it.†   (source)
  • Staggering away, the scribe felt his heel snag on the rough ground, and he began to topple over backward, arms flailing wildly.†   (source)
  • Holding both the scribe's shoulders, Bast shook him once, like an angry parent with a stubborn child.†   (source)
  • With terrible deliberateness Kvothe lifted a blank sheet and lay it carefully in front of the stunned scribe.†   (source)
  • "It's been a pleasure, Sir Scribe.†   (source)
  • Is he a scribe or sommat?†   (source)
  • You a scribe then?†   (source)
  • Scribe.†   (source)
  • I said incredulously, thinking of the pale, quiet students who worked in the Archives, sorting, scribing, and fetching books.†   (source)
  • And upon that tablet, there was scribed a certain Word—a name that magicians throughout the ages have hunted for with nothing but bitter disappointment as their reward.†   (source)
  • Like taut wires embedded in her skin, her face was scribed with a delicate pattern of lines-the greatest display of age Eragon had seen in an elf.†   (source)
  • He glanced at Oromis and saw the elf's face scribed by passion, as if he clung to something precious that he could not bear to lose.†   (source)
  • Be the scribe.†   (source)
  • Turf scribe Jack McDonald surveyed the production and wondered if the net effect would be to inspire Ligaroti or scare him to death.†   (source)
  • I am a scribe in the House of Life!†   (source)
  • The scribe's palette.†   (source)
  • Dany frowned at the little scribe.†   (source)
  • Missandei had told her of the Lord of Harmony, worshiped by the Peaceful People of Naath; he was the only true god, her little scribe said, the god who always was and always would be, who made the moon and stars and earth, and all the creatures that dwelt upon them.†   (source)
  • The little scribe bowed.†   (source)
  • He laughed and said that he would write it out in his own blood if Your Grace would send your little scribe to show him how to make the letters.†   (source)
  • "A scribe, long dead," said Haldon.†   (source)
  • Young as she was, Missandei had shown such a gift for tongues that the Good Masters had made a scribe of her.†   (source)
  • "This one heard, the Astapori scratching at the walls last night," the little scribe said as she was washing Dany's back.†   (source)
  • "Of course," answered the stray scribe.†   (source)
  • "Your Grace," said Missandei, "this one is so sorry, but you cannot ride in a tokar" The little scribe was right, as she so often was.†   (source)
  • Your father plans to retain one old order scribe such as myself to record minutes, take letters, and accompany him to court.†   (source)
  • The plump commander of the Stalwart Shields looked more like a scribe than a soldier, with his inky hands and heavy paunch, but he was as clever as they came.†   (source)
  • I've been a scribe for fifty years.†   (source)
  • He turned to the mustachioed scribe.†   (source)
  • To accomplish this he would have to put his left hand behind Orfeo's head, as if in affection, to hold the little scribe in place.†   (source)
  • Alessandro inquired of a stray scribe.†   (source)
  • It's when the exalted one infuses into the body of a scribe sufficient quantities of the sap that flows in the boiling passages of the bony valleys of the moon….†   (source)
  • From there he had made his way to Rome, where for half a century he had been a legal scribe, as the first office to which he had come near the railway station had been that of an attorney.†   (source)
  • Orfeo was an old man who had begun work as a scribe not long after the nineteenth century had passed its midpoint, and who still had not a single speck of gray.†   (source)
  • I, a scribe of the old order, have been put in charge of a hundred new order scribes and a thousand of those disgusting things that are called 'typewriters.'†   (source)
  • Had the changing of engines, filling of tanks, and loading of provisions taken another twenty minutes, Alessandro would have run home to see Luciana, but chance had directed him to murder the old scribe.†   (source)
  • Alessandro invited Orfeo to stay with him, so that he might dissuade him from leaping and send him back to Rome with a letter that Alessandro would write to his father, explaining the humanitarian necessity of rehiring the scribe on his own terms.†   (source)
  • Can't you hire a scribe?†   (source)
  • He was the chief scribe.†   (source)
  • I'm the chief scribe.†   (source)
  • They gradually assumed the profession of the scribe.†   (source)
  • We have a scribe, and we will go to town with you and have the deed properly sealed.†   (source)
  • His body was found on the bank of the Opera lake, on the Rue-Scribe side.†   (source)
  • The key of the gate to the underground passage in the Rue Scribe.†   (source)
  • And the Rue Scribe, madame, the Rue Scribe?†   (source)
  • He is somewhat urgently needed as a scribe by the State, for instance.'†   (source)
  • He told me that thou wast on the road to much honour as a scribe.†   (source)
  • Let him be a teacher; let him be a scribe—what matter?†   (source)
  • 'Yes, that am I—a scribe, when I am a Sahib, but it is set aside when I come as thy disciple.†   (source)
  • 'Will he pay?' said the spruce scribe, gathering up his desk and pens and sealing-wax all in order.†   (source)
  • In due time I take service under the Government as a scribe—'†   (source)
  • No sooner in my chair I bent over my writing-desk like a medieval scribe, and, but for the movement of the hand holding the pen, remained anxiously quiet.†   (source)
  • It gave to Americans unable to become Geheimrate or Commendatori such unctuous honorifics as High Worthy Recording Scribe and Grand Hoogow to add to the commonplace distinctions of Colonel, Judge, and Professor.†   (source)
  • I trust he will work that vein further, and recognize that Elizabethan Renascence fustian is no more bearable after medieval poesy than Scribe after Ibsen.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Kennicott confided to Ye Scribe that she will be connected with one of the multifarious war activities now centering in the Nation's Capital for a brief period before returning.†   (source)
  • Debienne lived at the corner of the Rue Scribe and the Boulevard des Capucines; Poligny, in the Rue Auber.†   (source)
  • You must be scribe and write him all down, so that when the others return from their work you can give it to them, then they shall know as we do.†   (source)
  • He regards, or so they tell me, its author, one Bergotte, Esquire, as a subtle scribe, more subtle, indeed, than any beast of the field; and, albeit he exhibits on occasion a critical pacifism, a tenderness in suffering fools, for which it is impossible to account, and hard to make allowance, still his word has weight with me as it were the Delphic Oracle.†   (source)
  • Such a jewel—it was explained to me by the old fellow from whom I heard most of this amazing Jim-myth—a sort of scribe to the wretched little Rajah of the place;—such a jewel, he said, cocking his poor purblind eyes up at me (he was sitting on the cabin floor out of respect), is best preserved by being concealed about the person of a woman.†   (source)
  • Have you never been to the Rue Scribe?†   (source)
  • The lake was perfectly calm, and a moonbeam that passed through the air hole in the Rue Scribe showed me absolutely nothing on its surface, which was smooth and black as ink.†   (source)
  • I beg your pardon, madame, could you tell me where to find a gate or door, made of bars, iron bars, opening into the Rue Scribe …. and leading to the lake?†   (source)
  • Suddenly, Raoul remembered something about a gate opening into the Rue Scribe, an underground passage running straight to the Rue Scribe from the lake ….†   (source)
  • I made Christine swear to come back, one night, when I was dead, crossing the lake from the Rue-Scribe side, and bury me in the greatest secrecy with the gold ring, which she was to wear until that moment.†   (source)
  • Gradually, I gave him such confidence that he ventured to take me walking on the banks of the lake and to row me in the boat on its leaden waters; toward the end of my captivity he let me out through the gates that closed the underground passages in the Rue Scribe.†   (source)
  • …find at the present day, in the foyer of the ballet, old men of the highest respectability, men upon whose word one could absolutely rely, who would remember as though they happened yesterday the mysterious and dramatic conditions that attended the kidnapping of Christine Daae, the disappearance of the Vicomte de Chagny and the death of his elder brother, Count Philippe, whose body was found on the bank of the lake that exists in the lower cellars of the Opera on the Rue-Scribe side.†   (source)
  • Filled with amazement and terror by this apparition of a horseman in the sky-half believing himself the chosen scribe of some new apocalypse, the officer was overcome by the intensity of his emotions; his legs failed him and he fell.†   (source)
  • We be craftsmen together, thou and I. Here is a new book of white English paper: here be sharpened pencils two and three—thick and thin, all good for a scribe.†   (source)
  • He is no great scribe, rather handling his pen like the pocket-staff he carries about with him always convenient to his grasp, and discourages correspondence with himself in others as being too artless and direct a way of doing delicate business.†   (source)
  • What is that but saying that we have come up with the point of view which the universal mind took through the eyes of one scribe; we have been that man, and have passed on.†   (source)
  • It was the usual charge for an assault and battery on the person of Hiram Doolittle, and was couched in the ancient language of such instruments, especial care having been taken by the scribe not to omit the name of a single offensive weapon known to the law.†   (source)
  • The bitter check had wrung from me some tears; and now, as I sat poring over the crabbed characters and flourishing tropes of an Indian scribe, my eyes filled again.†   (source)
  • Then in a more pathetic tone, pushing up his spectacles and looking at the unfortunate scribe, "The Lord have mercy on us, Fred, I can't put up with this!"†   (source)
  • He was something more than a scribe, I found, as we fell into conversation on the road.†   (source)
  • Colum, Dougal, the little scribe, and the girl's father all seemed to be getting into the act.†   (source)
  • "Mistress Beauchamp, will ye stand forth?" called the scribe.†   (source)
  • There was an agenda; the balding scribe read out the names and the various parties came forward in their turn.†   (source)
  • Wiping his eyes, the complainant nodded at last, and offered a hand to his opponent, as the scribe scribbled busily, quill scratching like a mouse's feet.†   (source)
  • My place fell in the middle of the party, flanked on the one side by a man-at-arms whose name I did not know, and on the other by Ned Gowan, the little scribe I had seen at work in Colum's hall.†   (source)
  • Near him were what I assumed must be the intimate members of Colum's staff: a thin-faced man in trews and smocked shirt, who lounged against the wall; a balding little man in a coat of fine brocade, clearly a scribe of some sort, as he was seated at a small table equipped with inkhorn, quills, and paper; two brawny kilted men with the attitude of guards; and to one side, one of the largest men I have ever seen.†   (source)
  • The ponderous pundit, Hugh MacHugh, Dublin's most brilliant scribe and editor and that minstrel boy of the wild wet west who is known by the euphonious appellation of the O'Madden Burke.†   (source)
  • Was there ever heard a better, That my master, being scribe, to himself should write the letter?†   (source)
  • …That the Magi came to worship him as King of the Jews: That Herod for the same cause sought to kill him: That John Baptist proclaimed him: That he preached by himselfe, and his Apostles that he was that King; That he taught the Law, not as a Scribe, but as a man of Authority: That he cured diseases by his Word onely, and did many other Miracles, which were foretold the Christ should doe: That he was saluted King when he entered into Jerusalem: That he fore-warned them to beware of all…†   (source)
  • SCRIBE.†   (source)
  • SCRIBE.†   (source)
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  • And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.†   (source)
  • Then he read to us—that passage about the miracle in the Gospel according to Mark: And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd about them, and scribes arguing with them.†   (source)
  • There is also a fair amount of what Lagos described as 'Rotary Club Boosterism'-scribes extolling the superior virtue of their city over some Dther city.†   (source)
  • The scribes chuckled again, and the bonzes nodded at each other, grinning.†   (source)
  • A few years back he'd changed the end of the play-sort of followed it up with his own version, complete with old man Scrooge becoming a preacher and all, heading off to Jerusalem to find the place where Jesus once taught the scribes.†   (source)
  • Now, we have the basic technology we need—ports, readers, scribes—and our information intake is much more specific.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, when she entered the riotous noise of the Arcade of the Scribes, he realized that he might lose the moment he had craved for so many years.†   (source)
  • Itas therefore not long before there arose a wave of protest against him among the scribes.†   (source)
  • Let the scribes record at once the clanmeet's decision, and let the news be spread to every person throughout the realm.†   (source)
  • None of them was written by Peregrin, but he and his successors collected many manuscripts written by scribes of Gondor: mainly copies or summaries of histories or legends relating to Elendil and his heirs.†   (source)
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  • It was the kind he'd taught the Circles scribes to use from his memories of the histories.†   (source)
  • Half a dozen bored scribes sat in open stalls, waiting for some custom.†   (source)
  • I need a hundred more scribes this very afternoon!†   (source)
  • Scribes must follow the streetcar track; still, the discipline affords satisfaction.†   (source)
  • The victory strengthened my belief that a man could speak the truth to his elders, to the new scribes and pharisees, and not be crucified or vilified because of it.†   (source)
  • "He's been talking himself hoarse for days, and the scribes are taking it all down-geology, mining, metallurgy, petroleum chemistry …."†   (source)
  • The birth of her child is not only a violation of human laws as interpreted by the scribes, since it was out of wedlock; it also contradicts the laws of nature.†   (source)
  • If only we still knew how to write instead of just type things into our scribes.†   (source)
  • The room goes silent: students stop tapping on their scribes; their fingers stilled.†   (source)
  • If it is wits she wants, let her buy scribes.†   (source)
  • He sits on a platform amidst hundreds of scribes.†   (source)
  • Three of them, with a dozen scribes and as many slaves to lift and fetch.†   (source)
  • We have our own temple scribes to record the history of Ely on since the Second Age.†   (source)
  • In the Free Cities they will be tutors, scribes, bed slaves, even healers and priests.†   (source)
  • The scribes had turned the library inside out looking for them, but not a sign.†   (source)
  • Still, he managed to say, "I saw typewriters in the hall of scribes."†   (source)
  • These are our own histories, created by the scribes, Ciphus said.†   (source)
  • Before Alessandro sat numbly with the scribes he wanted breakfast.†   (source)
  • The hall of scribes was dim and half deserted.†   (source)
  • One of the other scribes, a young man with a mustache, caught Alessandro's eye.†   (source)
  • They needed a scribe of the old order to direct the scribes of the new order.†   (source)
  • "My scribes admire me," Orfeo replied, still standing in the toilet.†   (source)
  • "Scribes are not fireflies," his father said.†   (source)
  • This quickly became an argument among the scribes.†   (source)
  • When Fermina and Hildebranda came out of the Belgian's studio, there were so many people in the plaza across from the Arcade of the Scribes that even the balconies were crowded.†   (source)
  • Fermina Daza shared with her schoolmates the singular idea that the Arcade of the Scribes was a place of perdition that was forbidden, of course, to decent young ladies.†   (source)
  • This was the period when he spent his free time in the Arcade of the Scribes, helping unlettered lovers to write their scented love notes, in order to unburden his heart of all the words of love that he could not use in customs reports.†   (source)
  • Xander and I duck through the classroom door, slide into our desks and take out our readers and scribes.†   (source)
  • They ventured alone as far as the Arcade of the Scribes, they bought sweets, they were amused in the shop that sold fancy paper, and Fermina Daza showed her cousin the place where she suddenly discovered that her love was nothing more than an illusion.†   (source)
  • I can see right away that it is old—heavy and thick and creamy, not slick and white like the curls of paper that come out of the ports or the scribes.†   (source)
  • It was during this time that a Belgian photographer came to the city and set up his studio at the end of the Arcade of the Scribes, and all those with the money to pay took advantage of the opportunity to have their pictures taken.†   (source)
  • That long ago, were there scribes?†   (source)
  • As he was starting out in the River Company of the Caribbean and writing letters free of charge in the Arcade of the Scribes, the friends of Florentino Ariza's youth were certain that they were slowly losing him beyond recall.†   (source)
  • They had agreed upon a symbolic fee of one peso, which she did not take and he did not hand to her, but which they put in the piggy bank until enough of them had accumulated to buy something charming from overseas in the Arcade of the Scribes.†   (source)
  • Later, when he was moved to other posts, he had so much love left over inside that he did not know what to do with it, and he offered it to unlettered lovers free of charge, writing their love missives for them in the Arcade of the Scribes.†   (source)
  • As a last resort he had recourse to all the herbs that the Indians hawked in the public market and to all the magical specifics and Oriental potions sold in the Arcade of the Scribes, but by the time he realized that he had been swindled, he already had the tonsure of a saint.†   (source)
  • One Tuesday he brought her a copy of the picture of her and Hildebranda taken by the Belgian photographer more than half a century before, which he had bought for fifteen centavos at a postcard sale in the Arcade of the Scribes.†   (source)
  • Even during his adolescence he had devoured, in the order of their appearance, all the volumes of the Popular Library that Transito Ariza bought from the bargain booksellers at the Arcade of the Scribes, where one could find everything from Homer to the least meritorious of the local poets.†   (source)
  • The name dated from colonial times, when the taciturn scribes in their vests and false cuffs first began to sit there, waiting for a poor man's fee to write all kinds of documents: memoranda of complaints or petition, legal testimony, cards of congratulation or condolence, love letters appropriate to any stage in an affair.†   (source)
  • Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle columnist Oscar Otis was one of the few truly knowledgeable turf scribes and dean of the western racing writers.†   (source)
  • Beneath the arches of the peddler's colonnade the scribes and money changers had set up for business, along with a hedge wizard, an herb woman, and a very bad juggler.†   (source)
  • We need more scribes.†   (source)
  • When selling bed slaves, fieldhands, scribes, craftsmen, and tutors, these men were rivals, but their ancestors had allied one with the other for the purpose Of making and selling the Unsullied.†   (source)
  • THE MAIN library had been cleared of the scribes by Christoph in a simple agreement that would one day give him more authority.†   (source)
  • They marched him up the stairs and down a corridor that paralleled the main library where the scribes worked.†   (source)
  • The scribes.†   (source)
  • Though the results are hideous, everything goes much faster now, and we have work for only three scribes and three machines.†   (source)
  • I went to the enormous room in the Ministry of War where Orfeo had been seated on a platform above the other scribes.†   (source)
  • With the build-up of the armies they need scribes to write proclamations, commissions, and fancy communications.†   (source)
  • He told me that one of my father's scribes, a Torinese named Sanduvo, had discovered a way to make chickens lay seven eggs a day.†   (source)
  • 'He had fits of madness and megalomania upon the dais, as the scribes, their heads bent in terror, pretended not to hear.'†   (source)
  • The highest position I have attained has been that of chief of the old order scribes in your fathers law office.†   (source)
  • Breathing heavily, he fixed his gaze upon an invisible horizon and declared so that the scribes and clerks would hear, "I am lightning!†   (source)
  • The other old order scribes render me their obeisance, but this is far from what I expected, especially since they never obey me.†   (source)
  • Nor were they angels, but they were very good, and the time until lunch went as smoothly as if all the scribes had been drifting down a river.†   (source)
  • A few gas chandeliers were lit above the long rows between desks, but most of the scribes had turned off their individual electric lamps and gone home.†   (source)
  • I, a scribe of the old order, have been put in charge of a hundred new order scribes and a thousand of those disgusting things that are called 'typewriters.'†   (source)
  • Instead, he went to the palatial Ministry of War, where Orfeo sat on a raised platform overlooking hundreds of scribes, typists, and sealing-wax clerks who were busy manufacturing the documents that fueled the war.†   (source)
  • One of the scribes.†   (source)
  • The spacious offices of this firm, in which the attorney Giuliani was the principal partner, looked over Rome as if to govern it, and they were remarkably serene, except for the office of the scribes, where pens scratched across paper in a sound that approximated that of a granary invaded by mice, or a coop of a hundred scratching chickens.†   (source)
  • It's like the moon that circles the planets of the outer reach, and the dance of the flatulent animals on the surface of the desiccated brook--_" "Tell me, if scribes value consistency so much," Alessandro interrupted, to stanch the monologue before Orfeo got on to the luminous sap, "then why not get one of those new machines, typewriters, and every letter will be exactly the same?"†   (source)
  • Then came several Cistercians, secretaries, deacons and other religious people, all burdened with ink made by boiling the bark of blackthorn, parchment, sand, bulls, pens, and the sort of pen-knife which scribes used to carry in their left hands when they were writing.†   (source)
  • "And the desks of the scribes!" added his neighbor.†   (source)
  • Who denounced in unmeasured terms the exploiters of his own time: 'Woe unto you, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites!†   (source)
  • In jumping at Publicans and Sinners they would forget that a word might be said for the worries of Scribes and Pharisees; and this defect or limitation might have recommended their own daughter-in-law to them at this moment as a fairly choice sort of lost person for their love.†   (source)
  • The scholastics were sort of the scribes of the Middle Ages, the dogmatic philosophers, if you like—hmm.†   (source)
  • This organisation even maintains a high-level judiciary along with its train of countless servants, scribes, policemen and all the other assistance that it needs, perhaps even executioners and torturers — I'm not afraid of using those words.†   (source)
  • Among the mass here and there appeared persons of high degree—scribes, elders, rabbis, Pharisees with broad fringing, Sadducees in fine cloaks—serving for the time as prompters and directors.†   (source)
  • At his feet was placed a table, occupied by two scribes, chaplains of the Order, whose duty it was to reduce to formal record the proceedings of the day.†   (source)
  • Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter; but within, they are full of extortion and excess.†   (source)
  • "I know," said Ilderim, taking some of the rings in his hand—"I know with what care and zeal, my son, the scribes of the Temple in the Holy City keep the names of the newly born, that every son of Israel may trace his line of ancestry to its beginning, though it antedate the patriarchs.†   (source)
  • "Down with them!" put in little Jehan, as counterpoint; "down with Master Andry, the beadles and the scribes; the theologians, the doctors and the decretists; the procurators, the electors and the rector!"†   (source)
  • —Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.†   (source)
  • This form of a ship had also struck the heraldic scribes; for it is from that, and not from the siege by the Normans, that the ship which blazons the old shield of Paris, comes, according to Favyn and Pasquier.†   (source)
  • —But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.†   (source)
  • The Christianity of America is a Christianity, of whose votaries it may be as truly said, as it was of the ancient scribes and Pharisees, "They bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.†   (source)
  • —Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint, and anise, and cumin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith; these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.†   (source)
  • …mantle of adultery, (leader's) trusty henchmen to the number of ten or a dozen or possibly even more than that penetrated into the printing works of the Insuppressible or no it was United Ireland (a by no means by the by appropriate appellative) and broke up the typecases with hammers or something like that all on account of some scurrilous effusions from the facile pens of the O'Brienite scribes at the usual mudslinging occupation reflecting on the erstwhile tribune's private morals.†   (source)
  • "Son be of good cheer, thy Sins be forgiven thee;" and knowing that the Scribes took for blasphemy, that a man should pretend to forgive Sins, asked them (v.†   (source)
  • To which he replied, "All the doctors and clever scribes in the world will not make sense of the scrawl of his madness; he is a madman full of streaks, full of lucid intervals."†   (source)
  • The Bishops place themselves on each side the court, in manner of consistory; below them, the Scribes.†   (source)
  • But he loves Caesar best;—yet he loves Antony: Hoo! hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards, poets, cannot Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number—hoo!†   (source)
  • He then commanded six-and-thirty of the lads, to read the several lines softly, as they appeared upon the frame; and where they found three or four words together that might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys, who were scribes.†   (source)
  • Enter two Vergers, with short silver wands; next them, two Scribes, in the habit of doctors; after them, the Archbishop of Canterbury alone; after him, the Bishops of Lincoln, Ely, Rochester, and Saint Asaph; next them, with some small distance, follows a Gentleman bearing the purse, with the great seal, and a cardinal's hat; then two Priests, bearing each silver cross; then a Gentleman Usher bareheaded, accompanied with a Sergeant-at-arms bearing a silver mace; then two Gentlemen…†   (source)
  • 2,3) "The Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses chayre and therefore All that they shall bid you observe, that observe and do."†   (source)
  • to the Scribes and Pharisees, "They bind heavy burthens, and grievous to be born, and lay them on mens shoulders;" by which is meant (he sayes) Making of Laws; and concludes thence, the Pope can make Laws.†   (source)
  • "The Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses seat; All therefore whatsoever they bid you doe, that observe and doe;" hee declareth plainly, that hee ascribeth Kingly Power, for that time, not to himselfe, but to them.†   (source)
  • But this also maketh onely for the Legislative power of Civill Soveraigns: For the Scribes, and Pharisees sat in Moses Chaire, but Moses next under God was Soveraign of the People of Israel: and therefore our Saviour commanded them to doe all that they should say, but not all that they should do.†   (source)
  • was compassed about with the multitude, those of the house doubted he was mad, and went out to hold him: but the Scribes said he had Belzebub, and that was it, by which he cast out divels; as if the greater mad-man had awed the lesser.†   (source)
  • For if the command of the Civill Soveraign bee such, as that it may be obeyed, without the forfeiture of life Eternall; not to obey it is unjust; and the precept of the Apostle takes place; "Servants obey your Masters in all things;" and, "Children obey your Parents in all things;" and the precept of our Saviour, "The Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses Chaire, All therefore they shall say, that observe, and doe."†   (source)
  • The Priests and Scribes seeking to kill our Saviour at the Passeover, and Judas possessed with a resolution to betray him, and the day of killing the Passeover being come, our Saviour celebrated the same with his Apostles, which he said, till the Kingdome of God was come hee would doe no more; and withall told them, that one of them was to betray him: Hereupon they questioned, which of them it should be; and withall (seeing the next Passeover their Master would celebrate should be when…†   (source)
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