Lexicographical Neighbors of Screevers
Literary usage of Screevers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Wanderer in London by Edward Verrall Lucas (1906)
"screevers St. Martin's Church — the real name of which is St. Martin's-in-the-Fields (how
far from fields to-day !) stands upon its hill as proudly almost ..."
2. The Literature of Roguery by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1907)
"... while screevers indite begging letters, and referees give forged characters.
Not less complete is the classification of thieves. ..."
3. The Literature of Roguery by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1907)
"... the petty traders offer trinkets for sale as a blind to the police; while
screevers indite begging letters, and referees give forged characters. ..."
4. Mr. Punch's History of Modern England by Charles Larcom Graves (1922)
"... him with Whistler in the ribald suggestion that they were jointly responsible
for the pictures exhibited by the "screevers" or pavement artists. ..."
5. The Christian Examiner edited by Edward Everett Hale (1862)
"... blob," that is, by word of mouth, and screevers, or those who beg bv written
documents, setting forth imaginary cases of distress, such documents being ..."
6. The Criminal Prisons of London, and Scenes of Prison Life by Henry Mayhew, John Binny (1862)
"... for begging—as scraping fiddlers, hurdy-gurdy and clarionet players. (10.)
Dependents of beggars; as screevers or the writers of "slums" (letters) and ..."
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