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Commander Kyser narrowed his eyes as the automatic inscriber began to tick.

Blazing Sun Ernsting, Walter 1975

The upper, flat, or third side of the stylus enabled the inscriber to keep it in correct relative position in respect to the tablet, yielding at the same time a convenient flat surface upon which to rest the end of his finger when indenting the angular end into the clay.

James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885

I was so fortunate as to have my conjectures confirmed with respect to the exact form of the instrument by which these remarkable characters are produced, observing, in what appeared to be a hastily-formed inscription on the edge of a large brick, that the inscriber had apparently used rather more pressure on his stylus than was requisite.

James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885

This is due to the inscriber having held his stylus somewhat askew, as we do a pen in ordinary writing.

James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885

An inscription which, though in a sense not less intrusive than the contrasted ones of the stranger, did not, as it seemed, provoke any corresponding derision or surprise, much less indignation; and still less, to all appearances, did it gain for the inscriber the repute of being a simpleton.

The Confidence-Man 1857

An inscription which, though in a sense not less intrusive than the contrasted ones of the stranger, did not, as it seemed, provoke any corresponding derision or surprise, much less indignation; and still less, to all appearances, did it gain for the inscriber the repute of being a simpleton.

The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855

So also, as regards the Judge Pyncheon of to-day, neither clergyman, nor legal critic, nor inscriber of tombstones, nor historian of general or local politics, would venture a word against this eminent person's sincerity as a Christian, or respectability as a man, or integrity as a judge, or courage and faithfulness as the often-tried representative of his political party.

The House of the Seven Gables 1851

So also, as regards the Judge Pyncheon of to-day, neither clergyman, nor legal critic, nor inscriber of tombstones, nor historian of general or local politics, would venture a word against this eminent person's sincerity as a Christian, or respectability as a man, or integrity as a judge, or courage and faithfulness as the often-tried representative of his political party.

The House of the Seven Gables 1851

Judge Pyncheon of to-day, neither clergyman, nor legal critic, nor inscriber of tombstones, nor historian of general or local politics, would venture a word against this eminent person's sincerity as a

House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

Ed Maggs, of Maggs Books of Mayfair established 1853, has advice for the nervous inscriber.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Harry de Quetteville 2011