intrust
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What you told me about Jeths intrust made good readin.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
The king then called to him his third and youngest son, 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
But manifestly, an absolute veto is too great a power to intrust to a single person, however wise he may be.
From Government in the United States National, State and Local by James Wilford Garner
I intrust the care of my establishment to you!
From Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 by Charles Paul de Kock
If it is not deemed best to intrust me with the command even of my own army, I simply ask to be permitted to share their fate on the field of battle.”
From Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by S. Emma E. Edmonds
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
It is true that government affairs are now intrusted to others who always had misgivings concerning the old acquisitive ideas.
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
The provincial minister was ordered to appoint two friars as inquisitors for this immense region, and was intrusted as usual with the power of removing and replacing them.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
When the understanding fully masters a thing before intrusting it to the memory, what it afterward draws therefrom is in reality its own.
From Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts by Jules Steeg
He believes that, by intrusting the matter to a fellow countryman, he will get his boy back again.
From The Blue Lights A Detective Story by Frederic Arnold Kummer
The emperor was not slow in discerning the extraordinary qualities of the youth; and he showed it by intrusting him, as he grew older, with various important commissions.
From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott
On selling out, Captain Dutton had honorably paid every farthing he owed in the world before intrusting the remainder of his capital to the unprincipled Smith; and now this upright conduct was its own reward.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
Judaism differs from all the ancient religions chiefly in its intrusting its truth to the whole people instead of a special priesthood.
From Jewish Theology by Kaufmann Kohler
