intrust
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What you told me about Jeths intrust made good readin.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
But he took care not to intrust his gift to the concierge, for if he did he knew that his servant would certainly be told of it.
From Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 by Charles Paul de Kock
Upon my declining to do so he threatened to intrust it to some other person's hand.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life by William H. Herndon
"Because," she replied, "Lir no longer loves thee; and he does not wish to intrust his children to thee, lest thou shouldst harm them."
From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown
The king then called to him his third and youngest son, and said, “If a man to whom I intrust my honour and my life prove faithless, how should he be punished?”
From Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day
As John Marshall was later to say of this new Constitution, “The sword and the purse, all the external relations, and no inconsiderable portion of the industry of the nation are intrusted to its Government.”
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2012
Three men, namely M. Kaganovitch, known as Stalin's right hand, Jarovski, and Enukidze, secretary of the central executive committee, were intrusted with carrying out this scheme.
From Time Magazine Archive
As two discharged doughboys intrusted with a dead pal's little girl, they try to find the grandparents named Smith.
From Time Magazine Archive
The part was intrusted to one Horace Braham.
From Time Magazine Archive
The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
In the very intrusting my children to your care, do I not prove that I must think you so?
From Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters by Grace Aguilar
"Thus, your highness, King James gives you a mark of the highest confidence in intrusting to you the defense of his rights and those of his young son."
From A Romance of the West Indies by Eugène Sue
The emperor was not slow in discerning the extraordinary qualities of the youth; and he showed it by intrusting him, as he grew older, with various important commissions.
From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott
He believes that, by intrusting the matter to a fellow countryman, he will get his boy back again.
From The Blue Lights A Detective Story by Frederic Arnold Kummer
They made a bold fight for Springfield, intrusting the management of the bill to Lincoln.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life by William H. Herndon
