scribbler

• The subject itself had nothing generally interesting, for whom did it concern to know that one or another scribbler was a dunce? —  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
• Ho To VERA._] You never told me your Jew-scribbler was a socialist DAVID I am nothing but a simple artist, but I come from Europe, one of her victims, and I know that she is a failure; that her palaces and peerages are outworn toys of the human spirit, and that the only hope of mankind lies in a new world. —  The Melting-Pot
• Every scribbler, almost, has had his little fling at it, at one time or another; I had mine fifteen years ago. —  The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories
• If I am a mercenary scribbler, the lords commissioners of the treasury best know: I am sure, they have found me no importunate solicitor; for I know myself, I deserved little, and, therefore, have never desired much. —  The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07
• Book-learned and a scribbler, and looking at people as I saw them as visiters or visiting, I thought I knew a great deal of it. —  Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8

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