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  • I couldn't mail it out right away, what with the plane settings, but I knew I could mail it out eventually, and cut and paste, and gallop into my second draft without any lost time scrivening.

    Archive 2010-01-01 2010

  • I couldn't mail it out right away, what with the plane settings, but I knew I could mail it out eventually, and cut and paste, and gallop into my second draft without any lost time scrivening.

    Luxury of the Palm 2010

  • Being jobless has fueled the ol' scrivening fingers, I suppose.

    busy days jlundberg 2006

  • Yet had Jeffrey Curtain kept at scrivening for twoscore years he could not have put a quirk into one of his stories weirder than the quirk that came into his own life.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

  • The clerk, who seemed to think we understood physics, began to assail us with incomprehensible gibberish about the alloys of precious metals, enamels from the Far East and a revolutionary theory on pistons and communicating chambers, all of which contributed to the Teutonic science underpinning the glorious stroke of that champion of scrivening technology.

    The Shadow of the Wind Zafon, Carlos Ruiz 2001

  • "You need directing, master scrivener, at anything but scrivening."

    The White Order Modesitt, L. E. 1998

  • Some scrivening to the end against their fate, 145

    Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford. I. The Man Against the Sky 1921

  • Jeffrey Curtain kept at scrivening for twoscore years he could not have put a quirk into one of his stories weirder than the quirk that came into his own life.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 1918

  • Evidently Ebesham did not find scrivening a too profitable occupation. 10.19

    Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages 1911

  • I'm no scrivening professor, but blood and flesh ....

    V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

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