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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

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

He even went so far as to indite the first letter of the Squire's to Aunt Graves.

From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by H. H. Riley

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 Jonathan Harrington Green

In Addison: Attend to what a lesser muse indites.

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

His pen indites the results of that watchful espionage which covers so many unread leaves of private life in San Francisco.

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

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

From Rosemary and Rue by Amber

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

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.

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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 promised to do so, and indited a letter to the officer who had the prisoner in charge, requesting his release, and giving assurances of the man's fealty to the Confederate government.

From The Spy of the Rebellion Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army during the Late Rebellion, by Allan Pinkerton

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 Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

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

When Citzewitz at the termination of a debate asked: "Who undertakes the inditing?" all the councillors cried in chorus: "That's Solomon's business," for that was the nickname they had bestowed upon him.

From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Bartholomew Sastrow

The Captain was not long in inditing a short note to Scanlan, to whom, "strictly confidential," Mr. Merl was introduced as a great capitalist and speculator, desirous to ascertain all the resources of the land.

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever

If this be true, the inditing such a preface, while totally suppressing Prichard's name, does little credit to Hyde.

From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by William Dunn Macray