indue
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One needs but little tackle to travel in; So, just one stout cloak shall I indue: And for a staff, what beats the javelin875 With which his boars my father pinned you?
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Myra Reynolds
Then shall Alfadur make his realm anew, And Gods and men with purer life indue.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
For its magic doth indue me With strength o'er all their graves.
From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein
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 80Take rest, ere I be gone Once more on my adventure brave and new: Fearless and unperplexed, When I wage battle next, What weapons to select, what armour to indue.
From Browning's Shorter Poems by Franklin T. (Franklin Thomas) Baker
The chief features, however, in Birket Foster's paintings are the poetic feeling with which he indued them, and the care and felicity with which his compositions were selected.
From Birket Foster, R.W.S. Sixteen examples in colour of the artist's work by H. M. (Herbert Minton) Cundall
Gorgias Le- ontinus. mous and excellent Oratour Prodicus, Gorgias Leontinus indued him with all singularitie of learnyng and eloquence.
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
But demaund we the opinion of King Salomon, a man indued with singuler gifts of God, rich and welthie of all things: who sought for treasure from the Iles.
From A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier by Mary Sidney Herbert
But fortunes based upon land in the cities were indued with a mathematical certainty and a perpetuity.
From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Myers Gustavus
O fear not, Madam, you'll find your account in Sir George Airy; it is impossible a Man of Sense shou'd use a Woman ill, indued with Beauty, Wit and Fortune.
From The Busie Body by Jess Byrd
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
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