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And I shall thereupon Take rest, ere I be gone Once more on my adventure brave and new: Fearless and unperplex'd, When I wage battle next, What weapons to select, what armour to indue.
From Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library by Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) Burt
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
And the fruits, of late commencing To indue their glowing tint, Richest beauty are enhancing As they catch his gentle glint.
From Verses of Feeling and Fancy by Wm. M. MacKeracher
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
And I shall thereupon take 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 armor to indue.
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry
They are indued with the power of contraction, and are again elongated either by antagonist muscles, by circulating fluids, or by elastic ligaments.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
If, however, it float by chance toward the poles, it will be checked a little by the poles of the earth, and will at length by the influence of the earth be indued with verticity.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert
He had indued his master's trousers, and, save for an unfashionable bagginess at the hips, they fitted him surprisingly well.
From Major Vigoureux by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
There was, it seemed, very little that Sewell had not done or borne for the cause of the Democracy, and Ingleby had already indued him with the qualities of Garibaldi.
From Delilah of the Snows by Harold Bindloss
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
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
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
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