inscribe
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“Take it down now,” wrote the Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Put it in a museum. Inscribe beneath it the years 1861-2015. Move forward…Save your lovely souls.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2015
Inscribe one with “ayubowan,” a Sinhalese salutation that means “May you live a long life.”
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2010
Dear P——, while Painters, Poets, Sages, Inscribe this volume's votive pages With partial friendship: why invite The tribute of a luckless wight Unknown—by wisdom or by wit Indulged with no certificate?
From Poems (1828) by Gent, Thomas
That we might clasp, ere closed, the book of fate, And make the writer on a fairer leaf Inscribe our names, or quite obliterate.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William
Jesus, in Thy dear Name This new year we begin; Bless Thou its opening door, Inscribe Thy Name within.
From The Story of Our Hymns by Ryden, Ernest Edwin
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