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

To what god or devil had he sold his soul that he was thus condemned to eternal scrivening?

From She Buildeth Her House by Comfort, William Wistar