All 14 Uses of
scribe
in
The Phantom of the Opera
- The events do not date more than thirty years back; and it would not be difficult to 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.†
Chpt Prol.
- Debienne lived at the corner of the Rue Scribe and the Boulevard des Capucines; Poligny, in the Rue Auber.†
Chpt 4 *
- 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.†
Chpt 12
- The key of the gate to the underground passage in the Rue Scribe.†
Chpt 13
- Suddenly, Raoul remembered something about a gate opening into the Rue Scribe, an underground passage running straight to the Rue Scribe from the lake ...Yes, Christine had told him about that...And, when he found that the key was no longer in the box, he nevertheless ran to the Rue Scribe.†
Chpt 15
- Suddenly, Raoul remembered something about a gate opening into the Rue Scribe, an underground passage running straight to the Rue Scribe from the lake ...Yes, Christine had told him about that...And, when he found that the key was no longer in the box, he nevertheless ran to the Rue Scribe.†
Chpt 15
- Suddenly, Raoul remembered something about a gate opening into the Rue Scribe, an underground passage running straight to the Rue Scribe from the lake ...Yes, Christine had told him about that...And, when he found that the key was no longer in the box, he nevertheless ran to the Rue Scribe.†
Chpt 15
- 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?†
Chpt 15
- And the Rue Scribe, madame, the Rue Scribe?†
Chpt 15
- And the Rue Scribe, madame, the Rue Scribe?†
Chpt 15
- Have you never been to the Rue Scribe?†
Chpt 15
- 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.†
Chpt 21
- His body was found on the bank of the Opera lake, on the Rue-Scribe side.†
Chpt 26
- "I went and released the young man," Erik continued, "and told him to come with me to Christine ...They kissed before me in the Louis-Philippe room ...Christine had my ring ...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....I told her where she would find my body and what to do with it...Then Christine kissed me, for the first time, herself, here, on the forehead—don't look, daroga!†
Chpt 26
Definitions:
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(1)
(scribe) in the days before printing presses and related technology: someone employed to write copies of documents or write what someone said
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, scribe can reference a writer -- especially a journalist. It can also reference a religious teacher from biblical times. Even more rarely, it can reference a sharp-pointed tool for marking wood or metal to be cut; or a line made on metal or wood such as might be used to indicate where material should be cut.