intrusting

Example Sentences

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In the very intrusting my children to your care, do I not prove that I must think you so?

From Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters by Aguilar, Grace

He believes that, by intrusting the matter to a fellow countryman, he will get his boy back again.

From The Blue Lights A Detective Story by Kummer, Frederic Arnold

Alexander did so, intrusting the command to an officer named Ptolemy.

From Alexander the Great Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob

As a well-known critic remarked in Macmillan—"This volume is one more illustration of the folly of intrusting the composition of biography to persons who have only the wholly irrelevant claim of intimate friendship."

From Harriet Martineau by Miller, Florence Fenwick

Frau von Lasberg, who was sniffing at her vinaigrette, looked dismayed; she had no idea of intrusting her precious health to this peasant doctor.

From The Alpine Fay A Romance by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)