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. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
London, deepening the inscriptive letters which told the heroic story. From Wordnik.com. [The Epistles of St. Peter] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [A Peep at the Pilgrims in Sixteen Hundred Thirty-Six] Reference
24 For instance: “A certain religious man was so deeply affected with the love of a king’s daughter, that he was brought to the brink of the grave,” is a favourite inscriptive formula. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
No inscriptive Sir!. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Winds an inscriptive legend. ". From Wordnik.com. [THE EXCURSION BOOK SIXTH] Reference
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