intrust
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What you told me about Jeths intrust made good readin.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
But this gave her a claim on him, and she knew he would not trifle with any commission she should intrust to him.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
But manifestly, an absolute veto is too great a power to intrust to a single person, however wise he may be.
From Government in the United States National, State and Local by Garner, James Wilford
"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
At last, though he would not intrust me with his materials, he permitted me to work with my own; promising that, if my baubles pleased him, he would purchase them.
From Discipline by Brunton, Mary
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
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
The part was intrusted to one Horace Braham.
From Time Magazine Archive
Neptune listened very graciously to her appeal, and promised to take but one of all the many lives intrusted to his care.
From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by Guerber, H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline)
He might have accepted the suggestion of the captain of a French frigate then at the Ile d'Aix, who begged Napoleon to take the chance of intrusting himself to him.
From Napoleon's Young Neighbor by Reed, Helen Leah
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 Kummer, Frederic Arnold
Judaism differs from all the ancient religions chiefly in its intrusting its truth to the whole people instead of a special priesthood.
From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann
The sea brings out the real character of every man; and those who journey over its "deep invisible paths" find themselves intrusting their most sacred confidences to the keeping of comparative strangers.
From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard
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 Miller, Florence Fenwick
