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
How shall I superscribe to your new lodgings, pray, madams?
From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan
I imagine that by this time you are at Paris; or will be before the arrival of this letter; which, according to your directions, I shall superscribe Poste restante.
From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas
You cannot Mister him, and you cannot Esquire him, and there is, therefore, no question as to what you shall superscribe him.
From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean
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 Richardson, Samuel
The letter was superscribed to "the President of the United Stales."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Dragon, superscribed "China"; "Namur, 1695"; "Blenheim"; "Ramillies," "Oudenarde"; "Malplaquet"; "Pegu"; "Sevastopol"; "New Zealand"; "Afghanistan, 1879-80"; "Tel-el-Kebir"; "Egypt, 1882"; "Nile, 1884-85"; "South Africa, 1900-02."
From The Irish at the Front by MacDonagh, Michael
It was superscribed in a firm, manly hand, and was, it must be, from Dr. Vaughan.
From Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lynch, Lawrence L.
A minute afterwards, as she turned the brown-spotted leaves, there fell out a packet, a letter superscribed, "Miss Anna Clare; to be read on her twenty-first birthday, and when quite alone."
From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry)
It had been folded and superscribed with all due formality and homage.
From The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.
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 Browning, William Ernst
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
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 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
"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 Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)
