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C Entrusts Cartier with its legal business, 22; Carrier's deep interest in its development, 48; line extended from Quebec to Rivi�re du Loup, 49, 114.

From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various

An adverse star, a fate here only wrong, Entrusts to one who worships her dear name, Yet haply injures by his praise her fame.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

O mother dear, my sire's decree Entrusts the people's weal to me.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

So the young Authour, panting after fame, And the long honours of a lasting name, Entrusts his happiness to human kind, More false, more cruel, than the seas or wind.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman