copyist

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But while many a bank clerk was copying letters perfunctorily, wearily, Copyist Alexander was studying and understanding the letters that flowed from his pen.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Paris in which Copyist Dumas soon became an author was an astonishing city of high living, wild revelry and the cancan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nicholas V, before he became Pope, was nicknamed "Tommaso the Copyist."

From Forty Centuries of Ink or, a chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. by Carvalho, David Nunes

This notion, viz. that it is within the province of a Copyist to interpret the original before him, clearly lies at the root of many a so-called “various reading.”

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William

Being reduced to the utmost Misery, he entered into the Service of a Composer, as a Copyist, where he made use of the Opportunity of learning the Rules of Composition, and became a good Proficient.

From Observations on the Florid Song or Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers by Galliard, John Ernest