intrust
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What you told me about Jeths intrust made good readin.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
Early in the morning the king called his eldest son to him 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
He doesn't return from New York until six o'clock this evening, and the paper is far too valuable to intrust to the mails or to an underling.
From On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents by William Nelson Taft
“I think I won’t tell anybody about you except the lady to whose care I am going to intrust you.”
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
She knew that she might safely intrust me with this permission; secure that, even if my resolutions were good, they would be ineffective.
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
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
As two discharged doughboys intrusted with a dead pal's little girl, they try to find the grandparents named Smith.
From Time Magazine Archive
Recently Hearst Sr. intrusted Hearst Jr. with a long-distance errand.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is true that government affairs are now intrusted to others who always had misgivings concerning the old acquisitive ideas.
From Time Magazine Archive
Camille Bellon, No. 50 Avenue de Noailles, at Lyons, had three young children whose education he had intrusted to a young governess.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion
The act of intrusting, or the thing intrusted.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
Fear of "the King of Hanover" was described as the reason for intrusting him as a baby to Admiral Allan, whose frigate was off the coast.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare
As a well-known critic remarked in Macmillan—"This volume is one more illustration of the folly of intrusting the composition of biography to persons who have only the wholly irrelevant claim of intimate friendship."
From Harriet Martineau by Florence Fenwick Miller
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
Frau von Lasberg, who was sniffing at her vinaigrette, looked dismayed; she had no idea of intrusting her precious health to this peasant doctor.
From The Alpine Fay A Romance by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
