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  • This is the main reason why copyist's are looked down on so much in this MFA world by art connoisseurs, for the copyist's have no idea on the messages or how they were even created.

    Most Expensive Living Artist - Lucian Freud 2008

  • "Las Meninas" remains a copyist's dream for its innumerable angles and complexities.

    A Unique Meeting Of Two Masterpieces 2010

  • Transpose this to a 19th-century copyist's office (back when dozens of human hands did the work of a single copy machine), and you have the absurd mechanics of Bartleby.

    The Short of It: Five Books You Do Have Time For 2008

  • "This isn't good," I muttered, staring at the copyist's remains.

    Soldiers Live Cook, Glen 2000

  • Blade asked again but the copyist's nose remained close to the page on which he was writing.

    Soldiers Live Cook, Glen 2000

  • The racket raised by Shukrat and her relatives finally disrupted the copyist's snores.

    Soldiers Live Cook, Glen 2000

  • The old copyist's grandson had failed to show again.

    Water Sleeps Cook, Glen 1999

  • Raised by the Smith's Guild, Jaric had proved too slight for the forges; he had been forced to repay the cost of his fostering on a copyist's wages.

    Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989

  • A single episode or phrase may suffer change from a copyist's hand, from inadvertence or from theological predilection.

    The Jesus of History T. R. Glover

  • Fortunately, however, in some cases he found time to exercise his skilful powers to their full extent, and has thus bequeathed to us some of the finest specimens of the copyist's art.

    The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

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