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This girl, who if she had been fed on poetry and works of imagination, might have become a Miss Sparkes, now rather gives herself the airs of a calculator and of a grave computist.

From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by More, Hannah

A thousand stories which the ignorant tell and believe die away at once when the computist takes them in his gripe.'

From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by Boswell, James