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  • noun The author of a dairy, a diarist.

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  • In the miscellaneous writings of John Evelyn, the diary-writer, there is an account of this extraordinary impostor, whose narration of his own adventures outshines that of Munchausen, and whose experiences, according to his own showing, were more remarkable than those of

    Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Anonymous

  • As I read this description I seem to see the figure of our happy little diary-writer reflected in the great glass globes that hung from the summer-trees, while she danced on the Persian carpet, or sat curled up reading on the cushioned window-seat.

    Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 Anna Green Winslow 1881

  • Even my journeys would prove tedious to him, as they often were to myself, for he would have to drive with me many a score of weary miles, where even the most zealous diary-writer would find nothing to record beyond the names of the post-stations.

    Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

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