| Bartleby, the scrivener must be the most famous short fiction in American literature. |
| Bristow, scrivener and the King's clerk, was meticulous in his record keeping. |
| He had different careers as Rector of the University of Siena in Tuscany, interpreter, scrivener and church musician. |
| Around the year 1350, a poor Parisian scrivener spent two florins on a strange but beautiful brass-bound book filled with curious diagrams. |
| It is also not clear why, occasionally, the scrivener found it necessary to record the family connections for some men while not so at other times. |
| Milton was the son of a London scrivener, and Pope and Southey were the sons of linendrapers. |
