ingraft

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His great work on earth is to exemplify, and to illustrate, and to ingraft those principles upon the living and practical understandings of all men within the reach of his influence.

From My Bondage and My Freedom by Douglass, Frederick

He says, that he prefers a monarchy to other governments, because you can better ingraft any description of republic on a monarchy, than anything of monarchy upon the republican forms.

From Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Burke, Edmund

“Perhaps, between us both we may ingraft a little more pride in their natures, for I see they are sadly lacking.”

From Zula by Lindley, H. Esselstyn

Good sooth—yet fire is not ingraft in wood, But many are the seeds of heat, and when Rubbing together they together flow, They start the conflagrations in the forests.

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery

There may also, perhaps, be cases where teachers, whose schools are already in successful operation, may ingraft upon their own plans some things which are here proposed.

From The Teacher by Abbott, Jacob