ingraft
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There may also, perhaps, be cases where teachers, whose schools are already in successful operation, may ingraft upon their own plans some things which are here proposed.
From The Teacher by Jacob Abbott
They soon ingraft their own social and political system upon immense multitudes, and impose upon vast countries the dominion of that combination of facts and ideas—more or less co-ordinate—which we call a civilization.
From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
The attempt to ingraft turkish trowsers on the Veronese costume, proved too absurd to warrant the continuance of such a representation, and was abandoned after the night of its introduction.
From Physiology of The Opera by John H. Swaby
Whatever little advantages the old system might have, they wished to retain and ingraft upon their new life.
From Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation by Thomas Wallace Knox
There were others of note seated on the platform, who would gladly ingraft upon English institutions all that is purely republican in the institutions of America.
From My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
