ingraft
Example Sentences
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Two other attempts to ingraft new and vital power on the rigid and trivial sentimentality of the Italian forms of opera were those of Rossini and Weber.
From The Great German Composers by George T. (George Titus) Ferris
In speaking of accents, let me say here I do not ask the young priest to commit the signal folly of attempting to ingraft an imported accent on his own native one.
From The Young Priest's Keepsake by Michael Phelan
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
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
And 'tis great pitty, that the Noble Moore Should hazard such a Place, as his owne Second With one of an ingraft Infirmitie, It were an honest Action, to say so To the Moore Iago.
From Othello by William Shakespeare
