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indue

[in-doo, -dyoo] / ɪnˈdu, -ˈdju /


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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

All honour that may be attributed unto any man by a wife, he hath it wholly and fully ... all dignities that she can indue him with are already given and granted.

From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various

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 now felt refreshed and invigorated, and began to indue his garments, which he found thrown on a heap beside the bed.

From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

Our party being at length complete, to the number of ten, we indue our cloaks, and, pioneered by the ward-beadle with his ponderous mace, we sally forth to feel the charitable pulse of several parishes.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 432 Volume 17, New Series, April 10, 1852 by Robert Chambers

He translates them back into concrete 6 terms; he clothes them in invented facts; he makes them imaginatively perceptible to a mind native and indued to actuality; and thus he gives expression to the truth.

From A Manual of the Art of Fiction by Clayton Meeker Hamilton

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

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

The poor people had indued themselves in their best apparel, and looked very pretty in their varied fantastic attire.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

And behold I send the promise of my Father upon you; but stay you in the city until you be indued with power from on high.

From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

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

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




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