ingraft

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Good sooth—yet fire is not ingraft in wood, But many are the seeds of heat, and when Rubbing together they together flow, They start the conflagrations in the forests.

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery

Whatever little advantages the old system might have, they wished to retain and ingraft upon their new life.

From Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation by Knox, Thomas Wallace

I ingraft, I raise heavy bodies above the clouds, and guide my course over ocean and through air.

From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

There were others of note seated on the platform, who would gladly ingraft upon English institutions all that is purely republican in the institutions of America.

From My Bondage and My Freedom by Douglass, Frederick

There may also, perhaps, be cases where teachers, whose schools are already in successful operation, may ingraft upon their own plans some things which are here proposed.

From The Teacher by Abbott, Jacob