All 50 Uses of
scribe
in
A Soldier of the Great War
- Can't you hire a scribe?†
Chpt 2
- "Scribes are not fireflies," his father said.†
Chpt 2
- 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.†
Chpt 2
- Before Alessandro sat numbly with the scribes he wanted breakfast.†
Chpt 2
- 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.†
Chpt 2
- One of the other scribes, a young man with a mustache, caught Alessandro's eye.†
Chpt 2
- "Singers come an hour before noon," the mustachioed scribe answered, still working.†
Chpt 2
- That is the mark of an old order scribe-consistency.†
Chpt 2
- Scribes must follow the streetcar track; still, the discipline affords satisfaction.†
Chpt 2
- 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?"†
Chpt 2
- I've been a scribe for fifty years.†
Chpt 2
- He turned to the mustachioed scribe.†
Chpt 2
- "I don't know, I wasn't there," said the scribe.†
Chpt 2
- That's three things," said the other scribe.†
Chpt 2
- This quickly became an argument among the scribes.†
Chpt 2
- 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.†
Chpt 2
- The highest position I have attained has been that of chief of the old order scribes in your fathers law office.†
Chpt 2
- The other old order scribes render me their obeisance, but this is far from what I expected, especially since they never obey me.†
Chpt 2
- Though the results are hideous, everything goes much faster now, and we have work for only three scribes and three machines.†
Chpt 2
- Your father plans to retain one old order scribe such as myself to record minutes, take letters, and accompany him to court.†
Chpt 2
- 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.†
Chpt 2
- The next ten years had been spent with a group of Gypsies, livestock traders, who employed him as their scribe.†
Chpt 2
- 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.†
Chpt 2
- "Go back to Rome and die," said the old scribe.†
Chpt 2
- "A tree in the shade," the attorney went on, attempting to pacify the scribe.†
Chpt 3
- 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.'†
Chpt 3
- 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.'†
Chpt 3
- With the build-up of the armies they need scribes to write proclamations, commissions, and fancy communications.†
Chpt 3
- They needed a scribe of the old order to direct the scribes of the new order.†
Chpt 3
- They needed a scribe of the old order to direct the scribes of the new order.†
Chpt 3
- 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.†
Chpt 6
- Of course scribes have always cleared up their masters' punctuation, adding a comma here, a hyphen there.
Chpt 6 *scribes = workers employed to write copies of documents in the days before printing presses
- 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….†
Chpt 6
- A scribe at one of the many long tables had asked permission to pee, and Orfeo had granted it.†
Chpt 6
- I'm the chief scribe.†
Chpt 6
- Breathing heavily, he fixed his gaze upon an invisible horizon and declared so that the scribes and clerks would hear, "I am lightning!†
Chpt 6
- He sits on a platform amidst hundreds of scribes.†
Chpt 6
- One of the scribes.†
Chpt 6
- 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.†
Chpt 7
- 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.†
Chpt 7
- The hall of scribes was dim and half deserted.†
Chpt 7
- 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.†
Chpt 7
- Alessandro inquired of a stray scribe.†
Chpt 7
- "Of course," answered the stray scribe.†
Chpt 7
- "My scribes admire me," Orfeo replied, still standing in the toilet.†
Chpt 7
- Still, he managed to say, "I saw typewriters in the hall of scribes."†
Chpt 7
- 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.†
Chpt 7
- When I served in my father's law office, God help me, I worked as a scribe.†
Chpt 8
- I went to the enormous room in the Ministry of War where Orfeo had been seated on a platform above the other scribes.†
Chpt 10
- He was the chief scribe.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(scribe) in the days before printing presses and related technology: someone employed to write copies of documents or write what someone said