indue

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How has she sinned, devout and true, The noblest monarch's child, That she should garb of bark indue And journey to the wild?

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

One needs but little tackle to travel in; So, just one stout cloak shall I indue: And for a staff, what beats the javelin875 With which his boars my father pinned you?

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra

"The future I may face now I have proved the past;" and, in view of it, Browning is "Fearless and unperplexed When I wage battle next, What weapons to select, what armour to indue."

From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir

Then shall Alfadur make his realm anew, And Gods and men with purer life indue.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)

At length the boy and girl go upstairs to be "got ready," which means that they indue other garments yet more uncomfortable than those they already wear.

From The Emancipated by Gissing, George