intrust
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What you told me about Jeths intrust made good readin.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
Meanwhile, I will leave you, for you may have a thousand messages to give monsieur for your relations and friends, commissions to intrust to him, and I should be very sorry to incommode you.
From Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 by Charles Paul de Kock
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
I have informed Congress, and I intrust it to your Excellency, that the Emperor of Austria, and the Empress of Russia, have offered their mediation to the Court of London, who has accepted it.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Volume X (of 12) by Various
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
It is true that government affairs are now intrusted to others who always had misgivings concerning the old acquisitive ideas.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
To settle the quarrel without evincing any partiality, Jupiter announced that the city would be intrusted to the protection of the deity who would create the most useful object for the use of man.
From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline) Guerber
The English Admiralty has for two summers detailed a vessel admirably fitted for such purposes, intrusting the scientific direction of the expedition to Dr. Carpenter, Professor Thomson, and Mr. Jeffreys.
From Seaside Studies in Natural History Marine Animals of Massachusetts Bay. Radiates. by Alexander Agassiz
He enjoined that the building should forthwith be destroyed, intrusting the task to the swift hands of Theophilus.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper
At noon she carried the dread missive home with her, gravely intrusting it to her Captain’s keeping.
From Marjorie Dean, High School Junior by Pauline Lester
The act of intrusting, or the thing intrusted.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
He was still intrusting the servant with his message when Aurora, leaning over the railing of the hallway above, called down to him, “Come right upstairs!”
From Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell
