scrivening
Example Sentences
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In her book Handwriting in America: A Cultural History, Tamara Plakins Thornton investigates how our scrivening came to “embody, regulate, and generate notions of the self.”
From Slate • Jan. 11, 2013
One does dread risking pretension when scrivening about the telly, but the show begs comparison with un incomparable spectacle de Jacques Tati.
From Slate • Sep. 23, 2011
He is thoroughly of New York state; born in Bristol, schooled at Ithaca, where he got his start scrivening for the undergraduate Cornell Sun.
From Time Magazine Archive
To play the parts of Robert Law and J. Carlyle Benson, scrivening pranksters of the Hecht-MacArthur school, Mr. Abbott has selected Allyn Joslyn and Jerome Cowan.
From Time Magazine Archive
To what god or devil had he sold his soul that he was thus condemned to eternal scrivening?
From She Buildeth Her House by Comfort, William Wistar
