ingraft
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There may also, perhaps, be cases where teachers, whose schools are already in successful operation, may ingraft upon their own plans some things which are here proposed.
From The Teacher by Jacob Abbott
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 John Addington Symonds
Whatever little advantages the old system might have, they wished to retain and ingraft upon their new life.
From Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation by Thomas Wallace Knox
It must not ingraft itself upon the passing and the accidental, but be pervaded by a poetic intuition of the real.
From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Gustav Freytag
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 George T. (George Titus) Ferris
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