quill driver

Historical Examples

• A tyrannical little beast of a quill-driver from the Treasury department.

  Under Western Eyes

  Joseph Conrad

• The very sight of that quill-driver is like poison and brimstone to me.

  Love and Intrigue

  Friedrich Schiller

• I believe that prefect's quill-driver was humbugging us when he said Asgard was only ten days' sail up.'

  Hypatia

  Charles Kingsley

• This quill-driver will publish details of how my wife scolds, which will make me the laughing-stock of all the town.

  The Mesmerist's Victim

  Alexandre Dumas

• A mere cashier—a quill-driver, a—well, a man like me—even he has a little of what is called feeling, you know.

  A Doll's House

  Henrik Ibsen