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His countenance, well bronzed as a weather-tried trooper’s, was harsh, gloomy, almost morose; not an unhandsome face, but set in such a severe cast the observer involuntarily wondered what experience had indited that scroll.

From The Strollers by Fisher, Harrison

Almost every week brought him a letter from Eleanor—not the romantic, carefully penned epistles she had indited to Harold Phipps, but hasty scrawls often dashed off with a pencil.

From Quin by Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan

The superscription was Jessie's; the note the short and cold farewell she had indited after her parting with Orrin Wyllys, on the 6th of September.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion

One had indited ten lines of free verse in her honor, another had soared on the wings of seventeenth century English into a panegyric on her beauty and her halo of mystery.

From Black Oxen by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

And so we came to the letter, which I opened and read, finding it to be written in the same feminine hand which had indited the others.

From The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" by Hodgson, William Hope