intrust
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What you told me about Jeths intrust made good readin.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
It is for this reason that many wise parents still prefer to intrust the education of their sons to the small colleges.
From An American at Oxford by John Corbin
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
I intrust the care of my establishment to you!
From Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 by Charles Paul de Kock
To give in trust; to commit; to intrust.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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
As two discharged doughboys intrusted with a dead pal's little girl, they try to find the grandparents named Smith.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is true that government affairs are now intrusted to others who always had misgivings concerning the old acquisitive ideas.
From Time Magazine Archive
The part was intrusted to one Horace Braham.
From Time Magazine Archive
It devolved upon him to secure their friendship, and266 keep them at peace; and he was also intrusted, in a great measure, with the power of regulating the fur-trade among them.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman
William of Orange had testified his confidence in him by intrusting to him a mission as difficult as it was dangerous, the nature of which we shall know later on.
From A Romance of the West Indies by Eugène Sue
"Thus, your highness, King James gives you a mark of the highest confidence in intrusting to you the defense of his rights and those of his young son."
From A Romance of the West Indies by Eugène Sue
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
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
But when Stewart asked for his bill, the proprietor, instead of intrusting it as usual to the headwaiter, presented it in person.
From The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade by Burton Egbert Stevenson
