We would indite something about the Solar System.

The others regarded him admiringly, so the energetic little man stumped away to indite his characteristic letter to Major Doyle.

"'There are so many beautiful women,' said I, 'any one of whom you might love, of whom you might sing, and to whom you could indite your verses.

A mere empiric, one that gets what he hath by observation, and makes only nature privy to what he indites; so slow an inventor, that he were better betake himself to his old trade of bricklaying; a bold whoreson, as confident now in making of a book, as he was in times past in laying of a brick.

And well could you, in your immortal strains, Describe his conduct, and reward his pains: But since the state has all your cares engross'd, And poetry in higher thoughts is lost, Attend to what a lesser Muse indites, Pardon her faults and countenance her flights.

I am walking about the room in very light attire, taking up my pen from time to time to indite a few words.

fly, Speed the quick step, nor turn the lingering eye!" Such the command, as fabling Bards indite, When Orpheus charm'd the grisly King of Night; Sooth'd the pale phantoms with his plaintive lay, 250 And led the fair Assurgent into day.

There are none therefore who stir up Pity so much as those who indite their own Sufferings.

This term is more applicable to Smollett, whose poems discover only in part those keen, vigorous, and original powers which enabled him to indite "Roderick Random" and "Humphrey Clinker."

The first work done by Mr. Bradlaugh on resuming the editorial chair of the National Reformer, was to indite a vigorous protest against the investment of national capital in the Suez Canal Shares.

AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE, a mythical personage who indites Oliver Wendell Holmes's breakfast-table conversations.

Think you that because she will no longer meet you in her weekly Bible-readings, because her pen will no more indite the thoughts which have made so many patient under life's burdens, and helped so many to make of their burdens steps on which to mount heavenwardthink you her work is ended?

For several days I have been led to pray that the indwelling Spirit may indite my petitions.

There are phrases that make you writhe, such as "the etymology of the mansion's designation", and the shocking persistency with which Charlotte Brontë "indites", "peruses", and "retains".

In Addison: Attend to what a lesser muse indites.

"If I were a poet, I'd indite an ode 'written after eating some of the excellent chicken pie of the Misses Tower.'

" However woe-begone the young lover was, he does not seem to have been wholly lost to others of the sex, and at this same time he was able to indite an acrostic to another charmer, which, if incomplete, nevertheless proves that there was a "midland" beauty as well, the lady being presumptively some member of the family of Alexanders, who had a plantation near Mount Vernon.

4 So I, the wronged pen to please, Make it my humble thanks express Unto your ladyship, in these: And now 'tis forcèd to confess That your great self did ne'er indite, Nor that, to one more noble, write.

High birth and fortune warrant give That such men write what they believe; And, feeling first what they indite, New credit give to ancient light.

I dare not sing what you indite; Her eyes refuse To read the passion which they write.

While she pretends to make the graces known Of matchless Mira, she reveals her own; And when she would another's praise indite, Is by her glass instructed how to write.

110 Wrestling with death, these lines I did indite; No other theme could give my soul delight.

Truth she relates in a sublimer strain, Than all the tales the boldest Greeks could feign; For what she sung that Spirit did indite, Which gave her courage and success in fight.

While our Urania sings what Heaven indites; The numbers are the nymph's; but from above Descends the pledge of that eternal love.

When we for age could neither read nor write, The subject made us able to indite; The soul, with nobler resolutions deck'd, The body stooping, does herself erect.