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One, Steve Miner's Lake Placid, a killer-crocodile epic that co-star Oliver Platt has called a "Jaws with neurotics," was written by TV superscribe David E. Kelley.

From Time Magazine Archive

The text is preceded by a Brief Preface, which, however, Luther, considering it a part of the Catechism, did not designate and superscribe as such.

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

You cannot Mister him, and you cannot Esquire him, and there is, therefore, no question as to what you shall superscribe him.

From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells

Witch is all at present, beginnin and endin to the everlastin power of almighty joys eternal; umbelly beggin leave to superscribe meself.

From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

And, for fear of being traced by Mr. Lovelace, I directed her to superscribe her answer, To Mrs. Mary Atkins; to be left till called for, at the Belle Savage Inn, on Ludgate-hill.'

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Samuel Richardson

The letter was superscribed to "the President of the United Stales."

From Time Magazine Archive

They ought to be written on foolscap paper, leaving a margin, to the left hand, of one-fourth of the breadth, and superscribed on the cover "On H. M. Service."

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

A minute afterwards, as she turned the brown-spotted leaves, there fell out a packet, a letter superscribed, "Miss Anna Clare; to be read on her twenty-first birthday, and when quite alone."

From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles

Three of the envelopes were sealed and superscribed, and two were stamped.

From The Destroying Angel by Louis Joseph Vance

Loring tore with his one hand a leaf from his pocket-book, found his pencil, and using a booted knee for a table, wrote a line, folded and superscribed it.

From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston

She had posters for the entire State printed in Rochester, her father, brother Merritt, and Mary Luther folding and superscribing to all the postmasters and the sheriff of every county.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"Let me take your mail out to little Pete," I said to the Doctor, who was superscribing his last letter, when I came in from the morning's sport.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller

Sū′perscript, Superscrip′tion, act of superscribing: that which is written or engraved above or on the outside.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Written, signed, and sealed, five minutes and eleven seconds after the receipt of yours, allowing seven seconds for sealing and superscribing, from my bed-side, just eleven minutes after eleven, Sept.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by William Ernst Browning