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"Indent" Quotes from Famous Books

... tin bill, and again a zinc ball, but neither of them produced any other effect than slightly to indent the iron. ...

— Eight Years' Wandering in Ceylon • Samuel White Baker

... to fight Against that great magician, damn'd Glendower, Whose daughter, as we hear, the Earl of March Hath lately married. Shall our coffers, then, Be emptied to redeem a traitor home? Shall we buy treason? and indent with fears When they have lost and forfeited themselves? No, on the barren mountains let him starve; For I shall never hold that man my friend Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cost To ransom home ...

— King Henry IV, The First Part • William Shakespeare [Hudson edition]

... father and the captain to the boat. He had still some distance to pull, though he kept a look-out for a larger boat or a sailing hooker on her way up to Waterford. At length a little high-sterned craft was seen standing out of one of the many small bays which indent the western shore of the harbour. The captain stood up, and shouted and waved, and the hooker, hauling her wind, hove to to await their coming. The skipper, knowing he should be amply recompensed, was delighted to receive them on board and to take their boat in ...

— The Missing Ship - The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley • W. H. G. Kingston

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