pen-pusher

• “The most dramatic of these conflicts was that fought out in the eastern provinces ca. 319-16 between Antigonus and Eumenes, the despised Greek pen-pusher who proved himself the finest general of them all and was only defeated when his own troops sold him to Antigonus in return for their captured baggage-train.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Babylonian Dreaming

• “I wish I could share it with you, but then my fellow villagers might be inclined to tar and feather a certain pauvre type whomistook a certain pauvre pen-pusher for a hooker.”

  French Word-A-Day:

• “I can't have my relationship with Will Riker known to every little pen-pusher in Starfleet.”

  Archive 2009-02-01

• “Pizza Patrón\'s Peso policy perturbs political persuader and part-time pen-pusher Doc Farmer, as he outlines his concerns. ”

  Pizza Patr�n's Peculiar Pecuniary Peso-Paying Predicament

• “I first noticed this trend in Liverpool, but it's far more prevalent in London, gripping even the highest of the lowliest middle management pen-pusher.”

  Archive 2006-05-01

• “You come out of university a pen-pusher and they bump you straight up through the ranks!”

  Simon & Schuster: Above Suspicion

• “He could, like Max suggested, have been the lowliest pen-pusher in the dullest department, with access to no more and no different sources of information than the rest of them on the subject at hand.”

  Be My Enemy

• “He wasn't alone, either; outside I found the young pen-pusher blinking at me enviously, obviously wishing that he, too, could be regarded as a curiosity by ravishing orientals.”

  Flashman and the Dragon

• “There's been many a fellow who's quite decent at heart who's murdered a helpless prisoner thinking to avenge some abominable outrage that was never committed, but only dished up by some skunk of a pen-pusher who's never seen any fighting in his life.”

  Combed Out

• “But this gentle pen-pusher in Frankfort, who passed his vocabulary at Froben's proofreader, Erasmus in time calls a "schamp," because he used cheap paper, cheap ink and close margins.”

  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers

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