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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

He smiled as he slipped into the sitting-room to indite a line "To the Sleeping Beauty."

From The Higher Court by Mary Stewart Daggett

Have the goodness, Mr. Hetherington, to sit down at that small table—you will there find all things needful for writing, and indite the handbill that will be necessary for us.

From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Mrs Trollope

She would indite a little letter to her brother, and, lest there should be delays she would not put her letter in the post.

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield

Pretty little Mrs. Hubert, bored with her husband's neglect, indites a diary, which a keen-sighted publisher gives to the world.

From Helena Brett's Career by Desmond Coke

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 James Parton

He rings for Barney, and indites a note to his foreman at the "Golden Chariot."

From The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance by Richard Savage

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

From An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope

There are phrases that make you writhe, such as "the etymology of the mansion's designation", and the shocking persistency with which Charlotte Brontë "indites", "peruses", and "retains".

From The Three Brontës by May Sinclair

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

To this the hungry Puritan, notwithstanding his haste, proceeded to do ample justice; while Holtspur, throwing open his desk, hurriedly indited an answer to the letter of his correspondent.

From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid

His military fever was slowly burning itself out, though he was able to fan the embers into flame when, later, he was inditing the adventures of "Maurice Tiernay."

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Edmund Downey

Even when inditing the letter to the cardinal, Philip cherished the hope that the necessity for his departure might be avoided altogether.

From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

The daily habit of inditing songs for music to please the ladies of the Medicean household, had accustomed him to the use of fluent Italian.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds

He appeared to be inditing a letter, which, when he had concluded, he delivered to a secretary to be transcribed. 

From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow

Within the last twenty-four hours of his existence a new chapter had been opened before him in his book of fate—it was not his own inditing.

From Jasper Lyle by Harriet Ward