lettered

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The Yankees are a surprise, too—uh, did anyone expect this kind of season from a Scarlet Lettered Alex Rodriguez?—But the Mets are the ones with the grip upon the city.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 20, 2015

Lettered he was not; his reading scarcely exceeded the Obituary of the old Gentleman's Magazine, to which he has never failed of having recourse for these last fifty years.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles

Lettered footnotes in the "Selections" have been relocated directly under the paragraph they pertain to.

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.

In these, our times, with daily wonders big,   A Lettered peer is like a lettered pig;   Both know their Alphabet, but who, from thence,   Infers that peers or pigs have manly sense?

From Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

Lettered upon a leathern trunk, that had seen much service, they made out the name, “CAPTAIN MAYNARD,” and underneath the well-known initials, “U.S.A.”

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne