superscribe
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One, Steve Miner's Lake Placid, a killer-crocodile epic that co-star Oliver Platt has called a "Jaws with neurotics," was written by TV superscribe David E. Kelley.
From Time Magazine Archive
To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
And, for fear of being traced by Mr. Lovelace, I directed her to superscribe her answer, To Mrs. Mary Atkins; to be left till called for, at the Belle Savage Inn, on Ludgate-hill.'
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Samuel Richardson
She endeavoured in vain to superscribe it: so desired me to do it.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 by Samuel Richardson
Most people have a lot of attributes and appendages that dress them up and superscribe them, and what I like Gabriel for is that he hasn't any at all.
From The Tragic Muse by Henry James
The letter was superscribed to "the President of the United Stales."
From Time Magazine Archive
Three of the envelopes were sealed and superscribed, and two were stamped.
From The Destroying Angel by Louis Joseph Vance
It is included in a sixth revise, in which lines 244-246 have been erased, and the present reading superscribed.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
With the ardour that might have been expected I first tore open the envelope superscribed by Inez.
From The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba by W. Christian Symons
“Private: for the hands of G. J. Utterson ALONE, and in case of his predecease to be destroyed unread,” so it was emphatically superscribed; and the lawyer dreaded to behold the contents.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
She had posters for the entire State printed in Rochester, her father, brother Merritt, and Mary Luther folding and superscribing to all the postmasters and the sheriff of every county.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Written, signed, and sealed, five minutes and eleven seconds after the receipt of yours, allowing seven seconds for sealing and superscribing, from my bed-side, just eleven minutes after eleven, Sept.
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by William Ernst Browning
Sū′perscript, Superscrip′tion, act of superscribing: that which is written or engraved above or on the outside.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
"Let me take your mail out to little Pete," I said to the Doctor, who was superscribing his last letter, when I came in from the morning's sport.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
