intrust
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What you told me about Jeths intrust made good readin.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
He asked them to care for his violin, for he would not have dared to intrust it to any one else.
From Heimatlos Two stories for children, and for those who love children by Johanna Spyri
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 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
"If you will intrust me with the key of your valise, I will bring them over with me to-morrow."
From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
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
The part was intrusted to one Horace Braham.
From Time Magazine Archive
Recently Hearst Sr. intrusted Hearst Jr. with a long-distance errand.
From Time Magazine Archive
The act of intrusting, or the thing intrusted.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
Jefferson Davis saw the mistake he had made in intrusting important interests to political generals.
From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Charles Morris
Fear of "the King of Hanover" was described as the reason for intrusting him as a baby to Admiral Allan, whose frigate was off the coast.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare
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
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
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
