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Further complications ensue when the maestro and the diva fall in love with their amanuenses.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2014

Impressing the services of Smith and his wife as amanuenses, Brett despatched the requisite letters before he retired for the night.

From The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate by Tracy, Louis

A great man thinks a thought in the presence of two amanuenses, provided I am right in spelling the plural in that way.

From A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories by Edgar Wilson

The contraction used by the early amanuenses for Praefecto Praetorio has been misunderstood by their successors, and consequently many MSS. read 'Praeposito,' and this reading has been followed by Nivellius.

From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Hodgkin, Thomas

Mr. Murray's profits would have been greater, though "authors," amanuenses, photographers, paper-makers, West-End booksellers, and other parasitic artisans might have suffered slightly.

From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Bennett, Arnold