intrusting
Example Sentences
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When the understanding fully masters a thing before intrusting it to the memory, what it afterward draws therefrom is in reality its own.
From Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts by Jules Steeg
“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
William of Orange had testified his confidence in him by intrusting to him a mission as difficult as it was dangerous, the nature of which we shall know later on.
From A Romance of the West Indies by Eugène Sue
The emperor was not slow in discerning the extraordinary qualities of the youth; and he showed it by intrusting him, as he grew older, with various important commissions.
From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott
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
