superscription
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"Margaret Van Eyck," was the reply: for they naturally thought the contents were by the same hand as the superscription.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
He devised the letter touching the ransom; he prompted the Duke of Orleans and the Count of Armagnac: I erased the writing, and changed the superscription.
From Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
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
Titian, Plate 126, in dealing with the incident of the tribute to Cæsar, has selected the moment Doré selected, when Jesus asks, "Whose image and superscription hath it?"
From The Great Painters' Gospel Pictures Representing Scenes and Incidents in the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Henry Turner Bailey
"From the King!" exclaimed Sir John Grey--"from the King!--a letter to me!"--and he held the packet to the lamp, and gazed on the superscription attentively.
From Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
