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Updated: April 30, 2025
At early dawn the grandchildren had already assembled there to hear the drums, oboes, clarinets, trumpets, and cornets played upon by the military, the city musicians, and whoever else might furnish his tones. The New-Year's gifts, sealed and superscribed, were divided by us children among the humbler congratulators; and, as the day advanced, the number of those of higher rank increased.
"He extended to me a folded letter, which I saw was superscribed 'To the Commander-in-Chief of the Republican Armies.
It is superscribed to Sir Aymery of Pavia, nomme Le Lombard, Chateau de Calais. Is not that your name and style, you rogue?" "It is my name, sire; but no such letter has come to me." "Else had your villainy never been disclosed. It is signed 'Isidore de Chargny'. What says my enemy de Chargny to my trusted servant? Listen!
A square envelope of creamy paper, it was superscribed simply in a hand strange to him, Anthony Ember, Esq., with the address of his apartment house. Tearing the envelope he found within a double sheet of plain notepaper bearing a message of five words penned hastily: "Au Printemps "one o'clock "Please!" Nothing else, not another word or pen-scratch....
One morning about a week after Marcus had left for the southern part of the State, McTeague found an oblong letter thrust through the letter-drop of the door of his "Parlors." The address was typewritten. He opened it. The letter had been sent from the City Hall and was stamped in one corner with the seal of the State of California, very official; the form and file numbers superscribed.
"We'll have him in, so that he can take your note back; but he doesn't expect to be decently treated: they don't, here. You just sit down and write it," said the consul, pushing the colonel into his own chair before his desk; and when the colonel had superscribed his note, he called in the Lohndiener, patient, hat in hand, and, "Where are you stopping?" he asked the colonel. "Oh, I forgot that.
The outside of the letter was superscribed as the other, "F. Levison, Esquire," no doubt with a view to its more certain delivery. "At last, thank the pigs!" was the gentleman's euphonious expression, as he tossed the letter, open, on the breakfast-table. "The divorce is granted!" feverishly uttered Lady Isabel. He made no reply, but seated himself to breakfast. "May I read the letter?
So back went I at last, slow-footed, to the cave and thus came on Sir Richard's letter, it sealed and superscribed thus: Unto my loved daughter, Joan Brandon,
Gradgrind and a council of political sages approved of Jem, and it was resolved to send him down to Coketown, to become known there and in the neighbourhood. Hence the letter Jem had last night shown to Mrs. Sparsit, which Mr. Bounderby now held in his hand; superscribed, 'Josiah Bounderby, Esquire, Banker, Coketown. Specially to introduce James Harthouse, Esquire. Thomas Gradgrind.
What is it?" asked Josephine, as she seized and held to the light the newspaper which he was extending. I looked over her shoulder and broke into a cold perspiration at beholding an execrable three-quarters length cut of my darling son superscribed by his name in holograph. "It's an indecent outrage," I hissed. "It isn't like him in the least. No one would ever know who it was.
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