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I was about to indite my valedictory; then came your manifesto�Dec. 29 issue�affirming your determination to hold fast to all those virtues for the presumed jettisoning of which I was about to leave you.

From Time Magazine Archive

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."

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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 Orpen, Mrs Goddard

He could copy such simple poetry as this, and feel it too, though he could indite no original poems on his canvas pages.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

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 Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

Like Jenkins when he writes,   It can not touch the mind; Unlike what he indites,   No nausea leaves behind.

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James

All letters of business are subject to the order of the one who indites them, allowing the holder the privilege of retaining a copy.

From Secret Band of Brothers A Full and True Exposition of All the Various Crimes, Villanies, and Misdeeds of This Powerful Organization in the United States. by Green, Jonathan Harrington

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

Every day she sits in the sunshine and reads her books or indites letters to her friends.

From Rosemary and Rue by Amber

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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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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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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"That is tenderly and beautifully indited, Mr Crabbin," answered she.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various

The beautiful broad white petals give a snowy surface for the inditing of messages or valentines, which are written with a pin, when the letters turn dark brown.

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse

Only imagine one of these despairing backwoodsmen inditing an Ovidian epistle to his unknown mistress—"down east,"—wooing her to come and be wooed!

From Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

No more inditing of those painfully constructed letters which his sense of duty had made incumbent on him, letters which it had taken him so long to write, and which were probably never read.

From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary

You take it in your hand And set yourself a-writing; No matter what you've planned, The truth 'twill be inditing.

From The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza by Fitzgerald, S. J. Adair

Char Vivian did not raise her eyes from the letter she was rapidly inditing, and her secretary retreated to give the order.

From The War-Workers by Delafield, E.M.