"Scrivener" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... learnt to write and cast accompts like a very scrivener, and the master trusts him more than any, except maybe ...
— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte M. Yonge
... city cabildo with two alcaldes-in-ordinary, twelve perpetual regidors, an alguacil-mayor [i.e., chief constable], a royal standard-bearer, the scrivener of the ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XVI, 1609 • H.E. Blair
... Bacon could retreat afford, Become the portion of a booby lord; And Helmsley, once proud Buckingham's delight, Slides to a scrivener and city knight. Let lands and houses have what lords they will, Let us be fix'd, and our own ...
— Chronicles of the Canongate • Sir Walter Scott
... thou a statesman, And make a business of damnation In such a world as this! why, 'tis a trade; The scrivener, usurer, lawyer, shopkeeper, And soldier, cannot live but by damnation. The politician does it by advance, And gives all ...
— The Works Of John Dryden, Vol. 7 (of 18) - The Duke of Guise; Albion and Albanius; Don Sebastian • John Dryden
... the War-leader to his seat of green turf raised in the ingle aforesaid; and he stood beside it till the Alderman and Wardens had taken their places on a seat behind him raised higher than his; below him on the step of his seat sat the Scrivener with his pen and ink- horn and scroll of parchment, and men had brought him a smooth ...
— The Roots of the Mountains • William Morris
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