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"The future I may face now I have proved the past;" and, in view of it, Browning is "Fearless and unperplexed When I wage battle next, What weapons to select, what armour to indue."

From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Sir Henry Jones

Let not self-love, wit, craft, and timorousness corrupt his mind, but indue him with fortitude, patience, steadfastness, tenderness, mortification .

From Bunyan Characters (1st Series) by Alexander Whyte

How has she sinned, devout and true, The noblest monarch's child, That she should garb of bark indue And journey to the wild?

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

An armed Loadstone does not indue an excited piece of Iron with greater vigour than an unarmed.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert

And the fruits, of late commencing     To indue their glowing tint, Richest beauty are enhancing     As they catch his gentle glint.

From Verses of Feeling and Fancy by Wm. M. MacKeracher

He then indued a cumbrous back-piece to match, buckled the shoulder-straps without assistance, and girded the whole tightly together with an embroidered belt round his waist.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling

Cato the sage Peere of Rome, indued with like seueritée, did fauour that lawe and highlie extolled it.

From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Richard Rainolde

Mayor-choosing Day came round, and Dr. Hansombody, elected by the unanimous vote of his fellow-councillors, attained to one of the twin summits of his ambition and was indued as Chief Magistrate with robe and chain.

From The Mayor of Troy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

They are indued with the power of contraction, and are again elongated either by antagonist muscles, by circulating fluids, or by elastic ligaments.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

In it, we are told, all the rulers and all the denizens of ocean are figured and indued with magic power to dwindle and dilate before the beholder’s eyes.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin

Hurriedly induing a portion of his clothing, he rushed down and across the yard, shouting to her as he ran, like a nurse as she runs up the stair to a screaming child.

From The Marquis of Lossie by George MacDonald

By this time Robert had conquered the difficulty of induing boots as hard as a thorough wetting and as thorough a drying could make them, and now stood prepared to go.

From Robert Falconer by George MacDonald

Most of the guests replacing their sandals, which they had put off in the banquet-room, and induing their cloaks, left the house on foot attended by their slaves.

From Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton