There on the blank pages, written in a crabbed hand long ago, at times letters blurred out but always a trace left where the unaccustomed scribe had borne down hard in his painful labourings, was the "secret" at lastGus

Because we had no Volunteers with us, we were not granted even one little word-spattering newspaper scribe, and so relinquished at the outset any fugitive hopes of glory that otherwise might have been entertained.

And then I took the second text, and here again the Psalm was given correct, but the verse was two, and not six, as my scribe had it.

Of this nothing more remains than the rostrum, hewn in the rock, and the seat of the scribe.

Because the progress of Negro education had been rather rapid, South Carolina enacted that year a law prohibiting any person from teaching or causing a slave to be taught, or from employing or using a slave as a scribe in any manner of writing.

'Tis true, I've more cunning than all your dull tribe, Magister and doctor, priest, parson, and scribe; Scruple or doubt comes not to enthrall me, Neither can devil nor hell now appal me Hence also my heart must all pleasure forego!

It can hardly keep awake at all, except over lives of the other sort; hence, one of great and successful villany is a prize for the scribe.

And this story, put into the mouth of Ana, the scribe, is packed with mystery and magic and miracles and murder.

I'm neither a scribe nor a Pharisee; I am simply a student of the art of life.

Moses is supposed to have written in characters which were nearly the same as those called Samaritan, but his writings have come to us in an alphabet more beautiful and regular, called the Chaldee or Chaldaic, which is said to have been made by Ezra the scribe, when he wrote out a new copy of the law, after the rebuilding of the temple.

"And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe.

I was pronounced too ill to act as scribe; Lizer was suggested, and then Jimmy, but M'Swat settled the matter thus: "Sure, damn it!

1st ed.), he concludes his interesting extract from the scribe Otloh's account of himself by saying:"One would like to know what books they were which Otlohnus thus multiplied; but this, perhaps, is now impossible."

Vita S. Wolfgangi, by the hand of our interesting scribe OTLOH, written at the instance of the Benedictine Coenobites of his monastery of S. Emmeram, at Ratisbon, where the saint was buried.

He is here, therefore, more an author than a scribe; but he declares modestly that it was a task he would willingly avoid for the future.

My remarks had reference to the supposed scribe of the catalogue, whose brains, according to W., were in some degree of confusion at times.

The ig is either a clerical error of the monkish scribe for y, or the g is a silent letter producing the quantity of the vowel.

But out and away, before you're dust: Scribe and Stay-at-home, Saint and Sage, Out of your cage, Out of your cage!

I opened it therefore, with a Resolution to publish it, whatever it should contain, and am sure, if any of my Male Readers will be so severely critical as not to like it, they would have been as well pleased with it as my self, had they seen the Face of the pretty Scribe.

Dey called 'im in to 'scribe for us.

Another type is the Irish scribe.

Twelve years had passed since all the Jews in Shushan had been roused by the news that Ezra the scribe was going from Babylon to Jerusalem, and that he was calling upon all who loved the home of their forefathers to go with him, and to help him in the work he had undertaken.

One is a priest, one a Levite, one a layman of rank, and the fourth a scribe, ver. 13.

[Illustration: Scribe or Copyist.

"And aboot time, too!" observes the scribe severely.