Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrives
Literary usage of Scrives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Exhibition Illustrating the Technical Methods of the Reproductive Arts from by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Print Dept, Sylvester Rosa Koehler (1892)
"For very large work, such as posters, planks are still used, but the cutting is
done with instruments called scrives (hollow gravers, pine tools) and gouges ..."
2. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, George Wiley Sherburn, Howard Mumford Jones, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"It bids me wish him not the mouldering doom Of nameless scrives of "memoires pour
servir" Dishonest "chroniclers of time's small- beer. ..."
3. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"Of nameless scrives of "memoires pour servir," It bids me wish him not the
mouldering doom Dishonest "chroniclers of time's small- beer. ..."
4. A History of Agriculture and Prices in England: From the Year After the by James Edwin Thorold Rogers, Arthur George Liddon Rogers (1882)
"The aum of Rhenish is found in twenty-two out of the sixty- two years. The aum
is divided into, or reckoned to contain, twenty-four scrives, sometimes also ..."
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