scrivener

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Laurence Olivier, the first-season host, showed off his range in fine versions of Herman Melville’s existentially comic tale of the scrivener, “Bartleby,” and Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2021

In "Minor Feelings," Hong firmly rejects the idea of having the authority to act as a scrivener or "spokesperson" for any racial identity.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2020

“I am but the scrivener looking for language that might please everybody,” he wrote in one email.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2017

“With submission, what word, sir,” asked Turkey, respectfully crowding himself into the contracted space behind the screen, and by so doing, making me jostle the scrivener.

From Slate • Oct. 22, 2015

Clement was the son of a scrivener or actuary,--the lowest grade of those officials who form the great political and legal hierarchy of the continental states of Europe.

From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold