superscription

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The latter took it, looked carefully at the superscription, read it slowly through, then folded it with cool deliberation and put it back into the envelope.

From The Story of a Doctor's Telephone?Told by His Wife by Firebaugh, Ellen M.

"I have seen it myself, Richard," said Sir John Grey; "the superscription is clear and distinct--'To Sir Thomas Grey, Knight,'--and not one word is mentioned therein of anything like ransom."

From Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

The superscription of the fifty-second Psalm bears—“Maschil of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.”

From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by Blaikie, William Garden

"Margaret Van Eyck," was the reply: for they naturally thought the contents were by the same hand as the superscription.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles

"It appeared," says Prof. Lyell, "from his explanation of 'Whose superscription is this?' that he supposed the piece of money to be a dollar note, to which C�sar had put his signature."

From Slavery and the Constitution by Bowditch, William Ingersoll