ingraft

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I ingraft, I raise heavy bodies above the clouds, and guide my course over ocean and through air.

From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

The attempt to ingraft turkish trowsers on the Veronese costume, proved too absurd to warrant the continuance of such a representation, and was abandoned after the night of its introduction.

From Physiology of The Opera by Swaby, John H.

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

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 Sherman, John

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 Freytag, Gustav