inscriptive

At transient rest in sheer potential, unselected by the inscriptive gestures of diction but not thereby cancelled entirely, these effects are not to be written out by textual encounter just because they are left invisible.

Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

Subtending even the local static of such a network and its inevitable interferences, isolated thereby in the imaginary sonics of phonemic silence (beyond any mechanics of impress), wording goes about its inscriptive work while continuing to reverberate in a toneless undertow not noted by manifest spelling.

Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

Having therefore so good a copy to imitate, I wrote; and, taking out that of my beloved, put under the same cover the following short billet; inscriptive and conclusive parts of it in her own words.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

London, deepening the inscriptive letters which told the heroic story.

The Epistles of St. Peter 1817-1893 1910

Hardly less so are a fleet crossing Mount Athos, an army treading the Hellespont, a sun eclipsed by Persian arrows, a flying Xerxes, an admired Leonidas, an inscriptive Othryades.

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895

His epigrams were more uniformly suggestive and concentrated than those of any previous writer, and he largely contributed to raise such compositions from being merely inscriptive into a branch of literature.

History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873

But were these, indeed, wanting -- were there no mounds or pyramids of sepulture or sacrifice -- no remains of art -- no inscriptive testimonies to speak of by-gone centuries -- we have before us one of the most interesting of all monumental proofs in the lost and enigmatical race, who yet rove the boundless forests of the West and South.

Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846 Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828

Numerous swelling mounds, some marked by a rude stone bearing a name and date, or inscriptive line engraved by the hand of affection, gave evidence that numbers had been called from their earthly labours within the brief space of time which had succeeded the settlement of the colony.

A Peep at the Pilgrims in Sixteen Hundred Thirty-Six 1825

[104] The turban, pillar, and inscriptive verse, decorate the tombs of the Osmanlies, whether in the cemetery or the wilderness.

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806