superscription
Example Sentences
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Many wore badges cut from the large copper coins then in use and bearing the sacred image and superscription of Liberty.
From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Frederic May Holland
From Isa," Virginia said as she glanced at the superscription; then tearing open the envelope, and glancing down the first page, "Molly is married! to a rich planter, too!
From Elsie's Widowhood A Sequel to Elsie's Children by Martha Finley
I started, as one does at an unexpected presence, to find an envelope among them with his familiar superscription.
From A Woman of Genius by Mary Hunter Austin
As he removed it from its resting place he observed that the poor ink of the superscription had run, and the letters of the address were faded and fast disappearing.
From Ralph of the Roundhouse by Allen Chapman
If next we turn to the more general epistle known as 1st John the lack of any superscription is more than counterbalanced by the writer's full and explicit declarations regarding motive and occasion.
From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon
