intrust
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What you told me about Jeths intrust made good readin.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
The man to whom Rochambeau expected to intrust the naval operations was La Peyrouse, the distinguished but ill-fated navigator.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
“I think I won’t tell anybody about you except the lady to whose care I am going to intrust you.”
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
Reluctantly, Manlio felt that he could not do better than to intrust the care of his dear ones to this generous youth.
From Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Giuseppe Garibaldi
Upon my declining to do so he threatened to intrust it to some other person's hand.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life by William H. Herndon
As John Marshall was later to say of this new Constitution, “The sword and the purse, all the external relations, and no inconsiderable portion of the industry of the nation are intrusted to its Government.”
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2012
The part was intrusted to one Horace Braham.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three men, namely M. Kaganovitch, known as Stalin's right hand, Jarovski, and Enukidze, secretary of the central executive committee, were intrusted with carrying out this scheme.
From Time Magazine Archive
As two discharged doughboys intrusted with a dead pal's little girl, they try to find the grandparents named Smith.
From Time Magazine Archive
The infant Bacchus was first intrusted to the care of his aunt Ino, the second wife of Athamas, King of Thebes, who nursed him as tenderly as if he had been her own child.
From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline) Guerber
“Do you remember intrusting Mr Ayling with some goods about that time to take up-country?”
From From Veldt Camp Fires by H.A. Bryden
And very ill-natured it was of him to leave me in the stable, instead of intrusting me to your care, mistress.
From For the Cause by Stanley J. Weyman
My father saw that, and reposed the greatest confidence in him in intrusting me to his care.
From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern
The sea brings out the real character of every man; and those who journey over its "deep invisible paths" find themselves intrusting their most sacred confidences to the keeping of comparative strangers.
From My Unknown Chum by Charles Bullard Fairbanks
He enjoined that the building should forthwith be destroyed, intrusting the task to the swift hands of Theophilus.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper
