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 ā 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 ā 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
He is 28, has been scrivening since he published an article in the Atlantic Monthly on student government at Kent School while he was a student there.
From Time Magazine Archive
He got well, and, though lame, was, when I knew him, as arrant a little scrivening knave as you could hope to meet in either hemisphere.
From A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham
