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• 1884, Felis, Jacob, Shakspere and Montaigne: an endeavour to explain the tendency of 'Hamlet' from allusions in contemporary works‎, page 117:
  Shakspere's friends understood the allusion contained in the first act, after the apparition of the Ghost, when Hamlet calls for his 'tablets.' They knew that the much-scribbling Montaigne was meant, who, as he avows, had so bad a memory that he could not receive any commission without writing it down in his 'tablets' (tablettes).
• 1889, Saltus, Edgar, A Transaction in Hearts An Episode‎, page 251:
  The list of these […] included all the unknown names of the first half of our present and much-scribbling century,—statesmen, politicians, divines, historians, critics, novelists, and poets who had been, were, or were to be famous. […] It was one of the many weaknesses of Poe […] to dispraise most of our high-minded and stout-hearted men and women of letters.
• 1898, Fisher, H. A. L., The medieval empire‎, page 93:
  Or else she will turn to literary work, like the much-scribbling and intolerable Hrothsuitha of Gandersheim. The literary and religious impulse then spreads to the men.
• 1919, More, Paul Elmer, With the wits: Shelburne essays, tenth series‎, page 256:
  After all, Mason, the much-scribbling, vain, place-seeking, simple ‘‘Scroddles,” as his friend called him, hit somehow on the right idea of biography, as did another foolish sycophant of the age […]