ingraft
Example Sentences
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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 Shakespeare, William
Good sooth—yet fire is not ingraft in wood, But many are the seeds of heat, and when Rubbing together they together flow, They start the conflagrations in the forests.
From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery
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 Knox, Thomas Wallace
Imps: shoots, branches; from Anglo-Saxon, "impian," German, "impfen," to implant, ingraft.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing
It must not ingraft itself upon the passing and the accidental, but be pervaded by a poetic intuition of the real.
From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Freytag, Gustav
