ingraft

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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 Douglass, Frederick

“Perhaps, between us both we may ingraft a little more pride in their natures, for I see they are sadly lacking.”

From Zula by Lindley, H. Esselstyn

He says that he prefers a monarchy to other governments, because you can better ingraft any description of republic on a monarchy than anything of monarchy upon the republican forms.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

It was the aim of Italian poets after Boccaccio to effect-481- a fusion between the classical and modern styles, and to ingraft the beauties of antique literature upon their own language.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

Two other attempts to ingraft new and vital power on the rigid and trivial sentimentality of the Italian forms of opera were those of Rossini and Weber.

From The Great German Composers by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)