intrusting

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He might have accepted the suggestion of the captain of a French frigate then at the Ile d'Aix, who begged Napoleon to take the chance of intrusting himself to him.

From Napoleon's Young Neighbor by Reed, Helen Leah

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 Weyman, Stanley J.

As a well-known critic remarked in Macmillan—"This volume is one more illustration of the folly of intrusting the composition of biography to persons who have only the wholly irrelevant claim of intimate friendship."

From Harriet Martineau by Miller, Florence Fenwick

Your gallant record justifies us in intrusting the papers to your care.

From Guy in the Jungle A Boy's Adventure in the Wilds of Africa by Graydon, William Murray

"But you can at least tell me who sent you here, Geordie?" said I, anxious for further information before intrusting myself to such erratic guidance.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various