ingraft
Example Sentences
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It must not ingraft itself upon the passing and the accidental, but be pervaded by a poetic intuition of the real.
From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Gustav Freytag
Good sooth—yet fire is not ingraft in wood, But many are the seeds of heat, and when Rubbing together they together flow, They start the conflagrations in the forests.
From On the Nature of Things by William Ellery Leonard
There were others of note seated on the platform, who would gladly ingraft upon English institutions all that is purely republican in the institutions of America.
From My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
Imps: shoots, branches; from Anglo-Saxon, "impian," German, "impfen," to implant, ingraft.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
His great work on earth is to exemplify, and to illustrate, and to ingraft those principles upon the living and practical understandings of all men within the reach of his influence.
From My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
