copyers

But when they left me to the last, I was convinced they were on the right track; the copyers one after another had confessed from whom they had received the matter for copying.

Debts of Honor M��r J��kai 1864

When you consider the character which is given of our country by the lying newspapers of London, and their credulous copyers in other countries; when you reflect, that all Europe is made to believe we are a lawless banditti, in a state of absolute anarchy, cutting one another's throats, and plundering without distinction, how could you expect, that any reasonable creature would venture among us?

Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Thomas Jefferson 1784

When you consider the character which is given of our country by the lying newspapers of London, & their credulous copyers in other countries; when you reflect that all Europe is made to believe we are a lawless banditti, in a state of absolute anarchy, cutting one another's throats, & plundering without distinction, how can you expect that any reasonable creature would venture among us?

Letters 1760

Cowley saw that such copyers were a servile race; he asserted his liberty, and spread his wings so boldly that he left his authors.

Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746

I. iii.208 (31,9) [captious and intenible sieve] The word _captious_ I never found in this sense; yet I cannot tell what to substitute, unless _carious, _ for _rotten_, which yet is a word more likely to have been mistaken by the copyers than used by the author.

Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746

See too, what copyers of other people's thoughts and writings make of it?

Reflection: A Poem, in Four Cantos ... 1790

* copyers and tranflators trade; fh, Popifli, int'refts have prevailed,

Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of ... 1791