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For fifteen months now it's been like that, and you can hear the editor saying to his scribes,
Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904
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(John x. 32), the irony is plain, but not any plainer than the rhetorical exaggeration of his accusation against the scribes,
The Life of Jesus of Nazareth Rhees, Rush, 1860-1939 1902
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All the afternoon and evening we laboured, assisted by some confidential scribes,
Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Shikibu, Sei Shonagon, and Akazome Emon; we find also in the Imperial family, Princes Kaneakira and Tomohira; we find three famous scribes,
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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This is the inveterate tendency that in other ages has made pedagogic scribes,
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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The number in each book served as a check on the errors of the scribes,
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Those he sends are called prophets, wise men, and scribes,
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] DouglasA 2010
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And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] TerryH 2010
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The accolades come in equal number from cops and scribes,
Candidateblogs.baltimoresun.com Blogs - Baltimore Sun Candidate Blog 2010
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