indue
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She retired at once to the ladies' cabin to indue her poke-bonnet with coquelicot trimmings.
From Poison Island by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Our party being at length complete, to the number of ten, we indue our cloaks, and, pioneered by the ward-beadle with his ponderous mace, we sally forth to feel the charitable pulse of several parishes.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 432 Volume 17, New Series, April 10, 1852 by Robert Chambers
To you— That's another point of view, One you may as well indue With some alarm.
From The Man Against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson
At length the boy and girl go upstairs to be "got ready," which means that they indue other garments yet more uncomfortable than those they already wear.
From The Emancipated by George Gissing
And I shall thereupon Take rest, ere I be gone80 Once more on my adventure brave and new: Fearless and unperplexed, When I wage battle next, What weapons to select, what armor to indue.
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Myra Reynolds
He was no lesse indued with commendable gifts of mind, than with strength Edgar a fauorer of moonks. and force of bodie.
From Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England by Raphael Holinshed
Slowly, very slowly, he divested himself of his clothes, and, piece by piece, indued himself in the old finery.
From The Mayor of Troy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Yet thei doe so moche leaue reason, vertue, & integritée of minde, as that thei had been framed without reason, indued with no vertue, nor adorned with any excellent qualitée.
From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Richard Rainolde
Men and women, absorbed with one object, waited in holy concord, in happy symphony—waited on, day after day, earnestly, fervently, harmoniously waited until they were indued with the promised power from on high.
From The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III by C. (Charles) H. (Henry) Mackintosh
But he that is indued with wisedome, let him consider of the glorious brightnes thereof.
From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Robert Dallington
Most of the guests replacing their sandals, which they had put off in the banquet-room, and induing their cloaks, left the house on foot attended by their slaves.
From Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
Hurriedly induing a portion of his clothing, he rushed down and across the yard, shouting to her as he ran, like a nurse as she runs up the stair to a screaming child.
From The Marquis of Lossie by George MacDonald
By this time Robert had conquered the difficulty of induing boots as hard as a thorough wetting and as thorough a drying could make them, and now stood prepared to go.
From Robert Falconer by George MacDonald
