ingraft
Example Sentences
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The Scot's inalienable prerogative of pedigree exercised an influence over him, though he appeared as a foreign ingraft upon his Scotch family tree.
From Robert Louis Stevenson by Evelyn Blantyre Simpson
Either of these plans I could readily support; but they have met and will meet with such opposition that we cannot hope to carry them or ingraft them in this bill without defeating it.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by John Sherman
And 'tis great pitty, that the Noble Moore Should hazard such a Place, as his owne Second With one of an ingraft Infirmitie, It were an honest Action, to say so To the Moore Iago.
From Othello by William Shakespeare
I ingraft, I raise heavy bodies above the clouds, and guide my course over ocean and through air.
From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Shall we not then hold fast and cherish such a faith? shall we not seek to understand its nature, and endeavor with our whole hearts to ingraft its principles upon our characters?
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Edward B. Hall
