They took me, I imagine, for a poor scribe of some sort.

Begging Your Holiness's pardon," she said, "but I'm not very religious and, I'm sorry to say, a rather poor scribe.

But I am a poor scribe and have no money.

I am a poor scribe, and have scarce broken a commandment to mention, and have recently dined upon cold veal!

Recalling the days when the owner Frank Case sent plates of olives, popovers and celery sticks to the poor scribes at the Round Table, the hotel now offers lunch discounts for struggling writers.

The wary author realizes that the reader will always blame the writer, as if the poor scribe had total control over what appears under his or her byline.

Very clerkly read," he spake, "and all runs smooth; methinks myself had been no poor scribe, were I but a clerk.

He was the one who had dispatched the poor scribe into Holiday's old world and brought the bottle and the Darkling into his.