Example sentences for: scribes

How can you use “scribes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Remember the hands, calloused and sunburned,of the Quumran scribes, seated at a cave's mouth,negotiating light that dawn brought backwith the promise of deliverance.Shadow and light, black fireon white fire, the unswerving word,conferring a sacred indifferenceto an urban, merely visual appeal.The caves, dark sockets in a cliff wall,return no one's gaze today,even if they once did seea mountain range of crumpled felt,castiron eagles fixed on approaching spears,and a southbound Jordan feeding the samefluid body, ever moremineral, ever heavier with salt.

  • And I think, earlier this year, of Serbia, where the bones of Prince Lazar, the martyr of the battle against the Turks in 1389, have become hallowed in history and whose legends were written down by church scribes and canonized in cycles of folk poetry.

  • But isn't that a good thing, meeting a real American need, much as do village scribes in rural India?

  • Back-page scribes remembered Paz as Mexico's most culturally influential writer and recalled Sanford's pioneering leadership for civil rights as governor of North Carolina in the early 1960s.

  • Where the palazzo joins the basilica’s southernmost flank is the Porta della Carta (Gate of the Paper, where the doge posted his decrees and scribes gathered).


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