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
CVI Oh, if the World were but to re-create, That we might catch ere closed the Book of Fate, And make The Writer on a fairer leaf Inscribe our names, or quite obliterate!
From Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Translated into English Verse by Khayyam, Omar
What legends do the dawns Inscribe in fire on Heaven's azure leaves, The red sun colophons?
From Weeds by the Wall Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius
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
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