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Scribes in sentence

18 examples of Scribes in a sentence

They survive because medieval scribes copied them and copied them and copied them.
Inside, the House of Life is bustling as usual with scribes, priests, doctors, and students.
Once the Library’s scribes had duplicated the texts, they kept the originals and sent the copies back to the ships.
About 100 years later, scribes who wrote English but also knew Latin, started to reinsert the "b" into the word's spelling, even though no one pronounced it that way.
Well, because they knew Latin, the scribes understood that the root of "doubt" had a "b" in it.
The notion of “Asian values,” promoted mostly by Singaporean official scribes, was partly a critique of universalist Western claims.
And European weakness, not to mention the “treason” of its liberal scribes, paving the way to an Islamist conquest of Europe (“Eurabia”) is seen as a ghastly echo of the appeasement of the Nazi threat.
By banning the printing of the Koran, Ottoman leaders delayed employment losses for scribes and calligraphers (many of whom were women who were glorified for their mastery of the art).
The idea that the press should ensure political accountability, inform the public, and encourage more responsive government is foreign to the populist conviction that identifies “good journalism” with sycophantic scribes.
Or consider the familiar distinction between scribes, who make instrumental use of language, and writers, who spin it into silk.
Gutenberg’s printing press democratized communications, which had long been monopolized by church scribes.
This organisation even maintains a high-level judiciary along with its train of countless servants, scribes, policemen and all the other assistance that it needs, perhaps even executioners and torturers - I'm not afraid of using those words.
To which he replied, "All the doctors and clever scribes in the world will not make sense of the scrawl of his madness; he is a madman full of streaks, full of lucid intervals."
At his feet was placed a table, occupied by two scribes, chaplains of the Order, whose duty it was to reduce to formal record the proceedings of the day.
"And the desks of the scribes!" added his neighbor.
"And the stools of the rector!""Down with them!" put in little Jehan, as counterpoint; "down with Master Andry, the beadles and the scribes; the theologians, the doctors and the decretists; the procurators, the electors and the rector!""The end of the world has come!,' muttered Master Andry, stopping up his ears.
This form of a ship had also struck the heraldic scribes; for it is from that, and not from the siege by the Normans, that the ship which blazons the old shield of Paris, comes, according to Favyn and Pasquier.
In the first case thou wilt purchase not one, but three scribes; in the second, the philosophy of all the seven sages, with the addition of thy own, will not suffice to get thee ointment."