superscribe
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One, Steve Miner's Lake Placid, a killer-crocodile epic that co-star Oliver Platt has called a "Jaws with neurotics," was written by TV superscribe David E. Kelley.
From Time Magazine Archive
Witch is all at present, beginnin and endin to the everlastin power of almighty joys eternal; umbelly beggin leave to superscribe meself.
From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft
She endeavoured in vain to superscribe it: so desired me to do it.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 by Samuel Richardson
I imagine that by this time you are at Paris; or will be before the arrival of this letter; which, according to your directions, I shall superscribe Poste restante.
From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft
He could barely see to sign his name and superscribe the envelope.
From Cudjo's Cave by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
The letter was superscribed to "the President of the United Stales."
From Time Magazine Archive
And the poor faithful fellow, that his spiritual tone might be restored, sat down and read once more his Bible—the letter superscribed in the large, scrawly hand, "To be Read En Route."
From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Orson Lowell
It is included in a sixth revise, in which lines 244-246 have been erased, and the present reading superscribed.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
The note was superscribed in the captain's well-known hand, but it was the writing evidently of one who wrote feebly.
From Successful Recitations by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles
Among the letters which had formed part of Rollo's credentials there was one superscribed "To be opened in the camp of General Cabrera."
From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
She had posters for the entire State printed in Rochester, her father, brother Merritt, and Mary Luther folding and superscribing to all the postmasters and the sheriff of every county.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Written, signed, and sealed, five minutes and eleven seconds after the receipt of yours, allowing seven seconds for sealing and superscribing, from my bed-side, just eleven minutes after eleven, Sept.
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by William Ernst Browning
Sū′perscript, Superscrip′tion, act of superscribing: that which is written or engraved above or on the outside.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
"Let me take your mail out to little Pete," I said to the Doctor, who was superscribing his last letter, when I came in from the morning's sport.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
