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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 was less with the hope of hindering this, than the other menace of a still more terrible event, that induced him to indite the letter.

From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid

So he went to the pope and begged him to indite an inquiry to the lawyer.

From For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos

Among intimate friends, it is sometimes most courteous, when declining an invitation, in place of a mere formal "regret" to indite a less ceremonious note, briefly explanatory, or apologetic.

From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Henry Lunettes

In Addison: Attend to what a lesser muse indites.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson

They fortunately do not meet; but James, ordering pen and paper, sits down and indites a letter.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Charles James Lever

When Pennington for female ills indites, Studying alone not what, but how he writes, The ladies, as his graceful form they scan, Cry, with ill-omened rapture,—"Killing man!"

From The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings by Mark Lemon

The Graces hold his inkstand for him when he indites the sonnets which, with such delicate cadences, he reads in the Accademia degli Arcadi.

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine

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

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

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

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

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

With a muttered expression of impatience did he glance over the four closely written pages indited in the very minutest of hands and the faintest possible ink.

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever

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

Then the young people sent notes to their friends in the other saloon, the young men inditing love-letters.

From Froth by Armando Palacio Vald?s

The privilege claimed by the novelist, who looks over the shoulders of his heroes and heroines when they are inditing their epistles, is also enjoyed by the historian.

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

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

From Methods of Authors by Hugo Erichsen

Two only out of the ten witnesses have gratified him by inditing, at his request, weak and guarded complaints of unfair treatment.

From Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? by John B. Remsburg