intrusting
Example Sentences
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“Do you remember intrusting Mr Ayling with some goods about that time to take up-country?”
From From Veldt Camp Fires by H.A. Bryden
My father saw that, and reposed the greatest confidence in him in intrusting me to his care.
From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern
“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 Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 by Various
Were Bluebeard to do me the honor of intrusting me with his keys, I should spend a pleasant half-hour speculating on his family affairs.
From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers
They made a bold fight for Springfield, intrusting the management of the bill to Lincoln.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life by William H. Herndon