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  • Of course scribes have always cleared up their masters' punctuation, adding a comma here, a hyphen there.  (source)
    scribes = workers employed to write copies of documents in the days before printing presses
  • He de scribed what was happening in Afghanistan as a "war between two elephants"—the US and the Soviet Union—not our war, and said that we Pashtuns were "like the grass crushed by the hooves of two fierce beasts."†  (source)
  • Like the great pendulum in its rotunda scribing through the long day movements of the universe of which you may say it knows nothing and yet know it must.†  (source)
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  • I had known a way to play games on the scribe.†  (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)
  • It was built out of hand-peeled full-length logs, every one scribed for a perfect fit.†  (source)
  • "Scribing pays better than I thought," he said as he began to count out shares to his men.†  (source)
  • 'Grynna' may well be gen. pl. of 'gyrn,' by a scribal slip.†  (source)
  • Court Scribe, Percy Ignatius Weasley —' 'Witness for the defence, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore,' said a quiet voice from behind Harry, who turned his head so fast he cricked his neck.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • We ate the food in near silence, the Korean family way, bent over the steaming crocks and dishes like scribing monks.†  (source)
  • No time to play scribe.†  (source)
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