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Even in the White House he never dictated or used a typewriter, "and the number of letters he could indite with his own heavy fist was limited."

From Time Magazine Archive

He that would triumph over the petty trickery of fate must indite history at its source.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

It is thus denied by some writers who have been at pains to indite learned books upon the subject.

From Stories about Famous Precious Stones by Mrs Goddard Orpen

How long might I sit here, the image of despair, and what despair on monumental marble, as desolate as the poet with fixed eye, unable to indite a line?

From Papers from Overlook-House by Casper Almore

Dear E——: Have not I got some pretty little paper upon which to indite my loving thoughts of thee?

From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Edward B. Hall

Hear how learned Greece her useful rules indites, When to repress and when indulge our flights.

From An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope

Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, a mythical personage who indites Oliver Wendell Holmes's breakfast-table conversations.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

The pen engraves for every art and indites for every press.

From The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy by Robert Elliott Flickinger

While our Urania sings what Heaven indites; The numbers are the nymph's; but from above Descends the pledge of that eternal love.

From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Sir John Denham

And that evening Geoffrey indites a letter to Mrs. Manning, Grafton Street, Dublin, that brings a smile to the lips of that cunning modiste.

From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess

Readers ascertained on closer scrutiny that Mr. Rogers was permitting this journal to publish a series of open epistles indited by him to Calvin Coolidge.

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Rushing to Washington, Congressman Linthicum indited invitations to all 71st House members to attend a Wet Bloc organization meeting early in December.

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Soon the compromise was indited, the bargain between miners and owners sealed, the strike averted.

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He indited the script to "Emperors, Kings, Dukes, Marquises, Earls and Knights," full knowing that the house of Polo would profit by the advertisement.

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Edited by Solomon Second-thoughts, School-master, from original MSS. indited by him, and now made public at the request and under the patronage of the great new light democratic central committee of Quodlibet. . . .

From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various

The marquis, who was by way of being a poet, began his wooing by inditing sonnets to the lady's eyes, which, however, were very coldly received.

From Queens of the French Stage by H. Noel Williams

My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made, touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

From Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

While some write sitting, some, like Bayes, Usually stand while they're inditing.

From Methods of Authors by Hugo Erichsen

The earl had no sooner withdrawn than Mr. Lockerby, after collecting himself a little, commenced inditing a letter to the Countess Dowager of Wistonbury, apprising her of what had just occurred.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various

He also occupies himself at times in inditing memoirs of his life, and as he has seen a good deal of French society, and was a shrewd and intelligent observer, he has much to say.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various