Examples from literature

• I should have no trouble but that of dictation, which would be performed as speedily as an amanuensis could write. 
• The circumstance that an amanuensis was employed, and the author writes the initials of his signature only, strengthens this impression. 
• The only difference it produced, that I am aware of, was its causing him to employ the hand of an amanuensis in place of his own. 
• The plan had been put before him in manuscript For the mechanical part of the work Johnson employed, as he told me, six amanuenses. 
• The story simply wanted a straightforward amanuensis to tell itself.