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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

How long might I sit here, the image of despair, and what despair on monumental marble, as desolate as the poet with fixed eye, unable to indite a line?

From Papers from Overlook-House by Casper Almore

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

Have the goodness, Mr. Hetherington, to sit down at that small table—you will there find all things needful for writing, and indite the handbill that will be necessary for us.

From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Mrs Trollope

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 Richard Savage

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 Charles James Lever

In Addison: Attend to what a lesser muse indites.

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

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

Like Jenkins when he writes,   It can not touch the mind; Unlike what he indites,   No nausea leaves behind.

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton

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

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

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

The last letter that Liszt indited with his own pen is addressed to Frau Sofie Menter, and is dated Bayreuth, July 3, 1886.

From Franz Liszt by James Huneker

Within the last twenty-four hours of his existence a new chapter had been opened before him in his book of fate—it was not his own inditing.

From Jasper Lyle by Harriet Ward

His military fever was slowly burning itself out, though he was able to fan the embers into flame when, later, he was inditing the adventures of "Maurice Tiernay."

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Edmund Downey

The earl had no sooner withdrawn than Mr. Lockerby, after collecting himself a little, commenced inditing a letter to the Countess Dowager of Wistonbury, apprising her of what had just occurred.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various

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

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