scrivening

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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 • 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 • Sep. 23, 2011

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

To play the parts of Robert Law and J. Carlyle Benson, scrivening pranksters of the Hecht-MacArthur school, Mr. Abbott has selected Allyn Joslyn and Jerome Cowan.

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 Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine)