How To Use Scribbler In A Sentence
-
Whatever else he might be - seedy scribbler or arrogant money-grubber - he had excellent sources and they had been prepared to talk.
-
What an abbreviator and clawer off of lawsuits, reconciler of differences, examiner and fumbler of bags, peruser of bills, scribbler of rough drafts, and engrosser of deeds would he not make!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
-
No wonder the scribblers on the hustings have so much stale garbage blowing around their brains.
-
Yes, a miserable penster, a scribbler, a fellow who spills ink for bread!
The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850
-
In the meantime, audacious scribblers arise, as from our own bosom, who not only obscure the light of sound doctrine with clouds of error, or infatuate the simple and the less experienced with their wicked ravings, but by a profane license of skepticism, allow themselves to uproot the whole of Religion.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
-
Although O'Connor is commonly perceived as an outsider artist—the crippled, eccentric scribbler—she was in fact from the beginning very much an insider.
-
A rechauffe of the dishes served to out-at-elbow enthusiasts in the provincial literary chambers, compounded of the effusions of your Voltaires and Jean-Jacques and such dirty-fingered scribblers.
Scaramouche
-
I wrote to him at different dates; regretted that I could not come to London this spring, but hoped we should meet somewhere in the summer; mentioned the state of my affairs, and suggested hopes of some preferment; informed him, that as The Beauties of Johnson had been published in London, some obscure scribbler had published at Edinburgh what he called The deformities of Johnson.
Life Of Johnson
-
He has been described as a ‘a mountebank, a charlatan and a scribbler’ by one author, although others see him as a proto-social scientist.
-
It is a voluptuousness only the novel knows, and the elusive grail we poor scribblers helplessly chase.
An Interview With Cynthia Ozick
-
If a Scribbler cannot be easy because he fancies I have too good an Opinion of my own Productions, let him write on and mortify; I owe him not the Charity to be out of temper myself merely to keep him quiet or give him Joy: Nor, in reality, can I see why any thing misrepresented, tho 'believ'd of me by Persons to whom I am unknown, ought to give me any more Concern than what may be thought of me in Lapland: 'Tis with those with whom I am to live only, where my Character can affect me; and I will venture to say, he must find out a new way of Writing that will make me pass my Time there less agreeably.
An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I
-
That Getsl Slatkis is a scribbler who has climbed on to the revolutionary bandwagon.
-
[86] Heretofore learning was graced by judicious scholars, but now noble sciences are vilified by base and illiterate scribblers, that either write for vainglory, need, to get money, or as Parasites to flatter and collogue with some great men, they put cut [87] burras, quisquiliasque ineptiasque.
Anatomy of Melancholy
-
It might also prompt some reflections on the nature of conservatism, of journalism, and of our trade's equivalent of the poète maudit: the myth of the heroic but doomed scribbler.
Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers
-
Minutius Felix, so Victorinus, thus far Arnobius: I cite and quote mine authors (which, howsoever some illiterate scribblers account pedantical, as a cloak of ignorance, and opposite to their affected fine style, I must and will use) sumpsi, non suripui; and what Varro, lib.
Anatomy of Melancholy
-
Horowitz's Watson cleverly excuses himself right at the start from any complaints about style or content by reminding us of Holmes's oft-stated judgement of the stories: "He accused me more than once of vulgar romanticism, and thought me no better than any Grub Street scribbler.
The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz – review
-
They might call it chick-lit, but the Scribbler reckons that some talons are emerging from underneath that cutesy downy fluff.
-
For a poor and graceless scribbler to feel some degree of envy at the "plenteous fatness" of Mr. H.'s purse is extremely natural.
-
Everything Chris said, in whatever you've called trumps, plus never trust a trial lawyer who wears a double-breasted suit to work. scribbler50,
The Tattooed Attorney
-
I'm beginning to think such iconic lines are in marble precisely so they won't be bent or made to yield to a scribbler's whim.
-
As a professional scribbler, I had penned a piece about the social, economic and environmental benefits of fair trade agriculture.
-
In a language so expressive as the English, I hate the pedantry of tagging or prefacing what I write with Latin scraps; and ever was a censurer of the motto-mongers among our weekly and daily scribblers.
Clarissa Harlowe
-
Whether it was some crackbrain scribbler who tried to prove Poe
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
-
In her other blog, The Merry Scribbler, PrairieMary has some good things to say about the "architectonics" of writing-- and it is NOT pretentious.
Writing-- the Continuing Series
-
An IBMer who should remain nameless, but who worked at the AIX division, once admitted to this scribbler - back then just a computer geek - "I will never promote OS/2.
-
Members include a variety or writers and would vary from scribblers to novelists, poets, and writers of short stories and writers for children.
-
He seems to be a regular guest on some BBC radio programmes on environmental matters, so he is not an ivory tower scribbler.
-
Not only will you be made a laughing-stock of, but some scribbler, some ink-splasher will put you into a comedy.
The Inspector-General
-
But here's a pet peeve from the media coverage, where Corporal Megeney is referred to repeatedly as a "reservist". maybe more than once your humble e-scribbler has let that word slip from his own lips or typed them onto a page somewhere.
A soldier, once and always
-
Think, also, what license the dyslexic rent-a-crowd poster-scribblers will have with Barack Obama's moniker.
Terry Krepel: John L. Perry's Greatest Obama-Hating Hits
-
The bursar hated Conan, ever since the time when the Cimmerian caught him taking extra servings of victuals from the mess hall - sustenance intended for warriors, not scribblers.
Archive 2010-02-01
-
I never even thought about differences in culture when it comes to such things (that's bad for a would-be scribbler isn't it?).
-
Although the government probably thinks it can afford to lose a few scribblers and daubers this kind of self-imposed exile strikes at a nation's soul.
-
Horowitz's Watson cleverly excuses himself right at the start from any complaints about style or content by reminding us of Holmes's oft-stated judgement of the stories: "He accused me more than once of vulgar romanticism, and thought me no better than any Grub Street scribbler.
The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz – review
-
Longtime Variety editor named vice prexy as scribblers ask, Was he ankled as replacement tapped for topline gig?
Peter Bart Up, Down, and Out at 'Variety'
