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• Thus is he both manful and virtuous , More passingly than I can of him write; I want cunning his high renown to indite, So much of manhood men may in him seen. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Henri of Monmouth Vol. I by J. Endell Tyler
• And now, after being a speaking prophet, he becomes, as has been quaintly remarked, a writing one too; for his pen was guided by a supernatural hand to indite the words, "This is Jesus, the King of the Jews It added greatly to the significance of the inscription that it was written in Hebrew and Greek and Latin. —  The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion
• Whether he has sustained a loss or an addition to his family, whether he wants you to dine with him at the club or to lend him ten pounds, his handwriting at least will be the same, unless, indeed, he be offended, when he will generally indite your name with a studious precision and a distant grace quite foreign to his ordinary caligraphy These reflections, trite enough as I know, are nevertheless inevitable if one is to begin one's unheroic story in the modern manner, at the latest possible point. —  No Hero
• I am walking about the room in very light attire, taking up my pen from time to time to indite a few words H.M.S. —  Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin
• Or if 'tis better to indite, And bring him to his trial? —  Hudibras

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