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Even in the White House he never dictated or used a typewriter, "and the number of letters he could indite with his own heavy fist was limited."

From Time Magazine Archive

He that would triumph over the petty trickery of fate must indite history at its source.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

May it please your Holiness There are possibly two, Or it may be three, Men In Europe Who could indite this Ode Without treading on anybody's corns.

From Outlook Odes by Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)

She knew that since the accusation about the cakes her steps had been dogged, her movements watched; and were she to openly indite epistles to the Jacobin, they would surely be intercepted by the conspirators.

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis

These are clearly not the men to indite the Wild Sports and Natural History of the North.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various

There are phrases that make you writhe, such as "the etymology of the mansion's designation", and the shocking persistency with which Charlotte Brontë "indites", "peruses", and "retains".

From The Three Brontës by Sinclair, May

When Pennington for female ills indites, Studying alone not what, but how he writes, The ladies, as his graceful form they scan, Cry, with ill-omened rapture,—"Killing man!"

From The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings by Lemon, Mark

They fortunately do not meet; but James, ordering pen and paper, sits down and indites a letter.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Lever, Charles James

While his meal is being served in his parlor, he indites a note to Hardin's political Mark Antony.

From The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance by Savage, Richard

Pretty little Mrs. Hubert, bored with her husband's neglect, indites a diary, which a keen-sighted publisher gives to the world.

From Helena Brett's Career by Coke, Desmond

Rushing to Washington, Congressman Linthicum indited invitations to all 71st House members to attend a Wet Bloc organization meeting early in December.

From Time Magazine Archive

Readers ascertained on closer scrutiny that Mr. Rogers was permitting this journal to publish a series of open epistles indited by him to Calvin Coolidge.

From Time Magazine Archive

Soon the compromise was indited, the bargain between miners and owners sealed, the strike averted.

From Time Magazine Archive

He indited the script to "Emperors, Kings, Dukes, Marquises, Earls and Knights," full knowing that the house of Polo would profit by the advertisement.

From Time Magazine Archive

He accordingly indited a sweet note expressive of joyous surprise, and requesting the honour of an interview.

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis

The beautiful broad white petals give a snowy surface for the inditing of messages or valentines, which are written with a pin, when the letters turn dark brown.

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse

If this be true, the inditing such a preface, while totally suppressing Prichard's name, does little credit to Hyde.

From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn

This social meal ended, she would sit down to write, penning letters, attending to business, or inditing stories if any such were in progress.

From Maria Edgeworth by Zimmern, Helen

Glancing hastily upwards, I—yes I, in the body at this present, inditing this faithful description of my chase,—saw, not a hundred paces from me, an enormous vulture!

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various

There was Governor Burnet, looking as if he had just received an undutiful communication from the House of Representatives, and were inditing a most sharp response.

From International Short Stories American by Various