scribblery

Soon after my return from India, in the year 1807, our friend John Bannister opened his funny budget, which he took with him about the country, and to which I, with many other far more distinguished drolls, contributed my scrap of scribblery.

1834, Henry Angelo, Angelo’s Pic Nic; or, Table Talk, Including Numerous Recollections of Public Characters, Who Have Figured in Some Part or Another of the Stage of Life for the Last Fifty Years; Forming an Endless Variety of Talent, Amusement, and Interest, Calculated to Please Every Person Fond of Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes, London: […] John Ebers, […], page 205

An’ Willie, the poet, o’ paper run scant, / Has spoilt a’ his auld minnie’s wa’s wi’ his scribblery, / Wi’ a burned stick end he has written a rant— / They’re black as the deevil wi’ Meggie M‘Givelry.

1847, John Halliday, “Meggie M‘Givelry”, in The Rustic Bard, or, A Voice from the People; Being Miscellaneous Poems and Songs, Galashiels: James Brown, […], page 319

The annual will contain historical sketches, illustrations being profusely scattered, having also likenesses of members of the faculty present and past, records of the collegiate department and dozen of other interesting bits of scribblery that only college students can think of.

1911 January 6, “To Issue an Annual. McPherson College Students Will Have One This Year.”, in McPherson Weekly Republican, volume XL, number 1, McPherson, Kan., page 1

A certain phrase, a page or a chapter, that had seemed, in the heat of our scribblery, to be adequate, clear, and perhaps (did we whisper it?) almost eloquent, will appear at some distance in time to be thin, vague, and even shoddy: not what we meant but far from it.

1932, Nettie Palmer, Talking it Over, Angus & Robertson Ltd., page 146

Tom Ferris, who wrote several laugh-provoking guest columns for this scribblery when he lived the quiet life in Deerfield Beach, has plunged back into action as advertising director for the Mackle Co.

1954 October 16, The Miami Herald, number 318, page 19-B