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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."

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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

Shall we depart, that he may still indite them?

From A Night in Avignon by Cale Young Rice

It was less with the hope of hindering this, than the other menace of a still more terrible event, that induced him to indite the letter.

From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid

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 Lewis Wingfield

Colonel Valois indites to Judge Philip Hardin a letter of last requests.

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

Well, it is in this wise: A correspondent of the Month, who signs himself “Narcissus,” lives in a suburban square, from which he indites a remarkable letter.

From John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 by William Powell Frith

Perhaps in his darkest moments, he indites a paragraph that cheers thousands.

From Scientific American magazine Vol 2. No. 3 Oct 10 1846 The Advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements by Rufus Porter

In Addison: Attend to what a lesser muse indites.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson

Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, a mythical personage who indites Oliver Wendell Holmes's breakfast-table conversations.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

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.

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

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

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

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Nearly cotemporaneously with Mildred's letter-writing, her mother also indited two epistles.

From Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson

He was inditing a last farewell to the queen in verse.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various

The privilege claimed by the novelist, who looks over the shoulders of his heroes and heroines when they are inditing their epistles, is also enjoyed by the historian.

From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

Two only out of the ten witnesses have gratified him by inditing, at his request, weak and guarded complaints of unfair treatment.

From Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? by John B. Remsburg

He also occupies himself at times in inditing memoirs of his life, and as he has seen a good deal of French society, and was a shrewd and intelligent observer, he has much to say.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

The daily habit of inditing songs for music to please the ladies of the Medicean household, had accustomed him to the use of fluent Italian.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds