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Tolstoy's literary amanuensis, V.G. Chertkov, had emigrated to Britain the previous year.
Towards the end of 1638 a young pupil, Vincenzio Viviani, came to live and study with Galileo, serving him also as amanuensis.
And we know he isn't joking because his faithful amanuensis, Dennis Shanahan, has reported it all in the newspaper.
Sauntering along the park and past the bingo, I reflect on the only fact I know about Dr Johnson's amanuensis, other than where he's buried.
With his eloquent amanuensis Chen Boda at his elbow, he cast back to China's wartime experience for a solution.
Young men share their nostalgia for domestic life in these letters, while the female amanuensis momentarily becomes a soldier.
He was the amanuensis for the meetings of the general committee, the final meetings for which King James had been waiting impatiently.
This correspondence reveals that after an unsuccessful effort to enlist Harriet Beecher Stowe as her amanuensis, she wrote her life herself.
Affectionate and needy, Thackeray had nurtured Anny's talents, and used her as his amanuensis.
During their short and turbulent life he became virtually their cinematic amanuensis, a process which culminated in his first feature film.
In his final years he was blind and paralysed but was able to continue composing through the devoted assistance of Eric Fenby, his musical amanuensis.
His amanuensis, David Frum, is a different and much sadder case.
Thomas went to his grave regarding Eleanour as nothing more than a dear friend, useful as an unpaid secretary, the willing amanuensis who typed his manuscripts for him.
At Newsweek he dueled with his economic nemesis, Paul Samuelson, the amanuensis of the Keynesian revolution.
Simson remained in good health until a few years before his death, during which period he had to employ an amanuensis to assist him in revising his geometrical writings.
Silenced herself, she is reduced to the status of his amanuensis.
He resided with Caroline Graves and her daughter, Carrie, who became his amanuensis, while he housed Martha Rudd and their three children nearby.
Mr. Speaker, two things are missing from the statement of the Minister of Finance, made by his amanuensis, the Minister of Transport.
My grandfather began by taking shorthand using a fountain pen and steno pad, then dictating from his notes to an amanuensis who typed on a manual typewriter.
ReprintsOn the other hand, didn't Goethe encourage Johann Peter Eckermann, the tireless amanuensis he met in 1823 whom he knew was recording his words for posterity?
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Examples from Classical Literature
For heaven's sake let us know, pray, pray let us know who was Lincoln's amanuensis?
They appointed me clerk of that Committee on conchology and then allowed me no amanuensis to play billiards with.
And there had been no more attempts to write letters by way of an amanuensis.
He writes just as you might suppose Voltaire's footboy to do, who has been his amanuensis.
The letters w and v are used indiscriminately by Knox's amanuensis.
The writing of an amanuensis must shew you the amount of my engagements.
She became his amanuensis and secretary, and scarcely ever left his side.
Perhaps he lectured and the amanuensis took down what he said.
Colbert suggested when he accused the press corps of being nothing but an amanuensis for the the latter's view of reality.
Considerably more congenial was his next position as amanuensis to that old monster, the Anglo-American litterateur, Logan Pearsall Smith.
Nicholas briefly replied, that he wanted to know whether there was any such post to be had, as secretary or amanuensis to a gentleman.
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