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We three cannot, however, definitely say that we won't write verses, for, if we come across any comparatively easy subject and metre, we too will indite a stanza if we feel so disposed.

From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft

They will indite laws and issue high-flown worded decrees that nobody will take the trouble to carry out—because revolution has come.

From The Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz