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
He could barely see to sign his name and superscribe the envelope.
From Cudjo's Cave by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
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
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
And, for fear of being traced by Mr. Lovelace, I directed her to superscribe her answer, To Mrs. Mary Atkins; to be left till called for, at the Belle Savage Inn, on Ludgate-hill.'
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Samuel Richardson
The letter was superscribed to "the President of the United Stales."
From Time Magazine Archive
It was superscribed with a name unknown to any of the family, and in a hand which its badness rendered almost illegible.
From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
They ought to be written on foolscap paper, leaving a margin, to the left hand, of one-fourth of the breadth, and superscribed on the cover "On H. M. Service."
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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
The letter was signed, and folded, and superscribed, but unsealed.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
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
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
"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
