intrust
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What you told me about Jeths intrust made good readin.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
It is against all reason and right," says the learned justice, "for a people to intrust a legislature with such powers; and therefore it cannot be presumed that they have done it.
From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud
The man to whom Rochambeau expected to intrust the naval operations was La Peyrouse, the distinguished but ill-fated navigator.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
Early in the morning the king called his eldest son to him and said, “If a man to whom I intrust my honour and my life prove faithless, how should he be punished?”
From Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day
From the heart of the Sierra, where I once more hear the awful heart-throbs of Nature, I now intrust the first reception of these lessons entirely to my own country.
From Songs of the Mexican Seas by Joaquin Miller
As John Marshall was later to say of this new Constitution, “The sword and the purse, all the external relations, and no inconsiderable portion of the industry of the nation are intrusted to its Government.”
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2012
Recently Hearst Sr. intrusted Hearst Jr. with a long-distance errand.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three men, namely M. Kaganovitch, known as Stalin's right hand, Jarovski, and Enukidze, secretary of the central executive committee, were intrusted with carrying out this scheme.
From Time Magazine Archive
As two discharged doughboys intrusted with a dead pal's little girl, they try to find the grandparents named Smith.
From Time Magazine Archive
One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
Let me show my appreciation of that confidence by intrusting you with one equally important.
From Gabriel Conroy by Bert Harte
He enjoined that the building should forthwith be destroyed, intrusting the task to the swift hands of Theophilus.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper
My father saw that, and reposed the greatest confidence in him in intrusting me to his care.
From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern
And very ill-natured it was of him to leave me in the stable, instead of intrusting me to your care, mistress.
From For the Cause by Stanley J. Weyman
The English Admiralty has for two summers detailed a vessel admirably fitted for such purposes, intrusting the scientific direction of the expedition to Dr. Carpenter, Professor Thomson, and Mr. Jeffreys.
From Seaside Studies in Natural History Marine Animals of Massachusetts Bay. Radiates. by Alexander Agassiz
