- a variation of entrust.
intrust
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What you told me about Jeths intrust made good readin.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
Why did I intrust to any one but myself the safety of my Fabiano?
From The Dramas of Victor Hugo: Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme, Esmeralda by Hugo, Victor
If you want to give him something to do, why don't you intrust him with getting ready the house for your Christmas party?
From Poor Relations by MacKenzie, Compton
A true and gallant gentleman!" said he, slowly repeating her own words; "and if so, is it an unsafe keeping to which to intrust your happiness?
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
Meanwhile, I will leave you, for you may have a thousand messages to give monsieur for your relations and friends, commissions to intrust to him, and I should be very sorry to incommode you.
From Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 by Kock, Charles Paul de
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
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
The part was intrusted to one Horace Braham.
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
Bill Tice had done the errand which Mr. Grizzle intrusted to him.
From I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success by Roe, Azel Stevens
In the very intrusting my children to your care, do I not prove that I must think you so?
From Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters by Aguilar, Grace
“But you can at least tell me who sent you here, Geordie?” said I, anxious for further information before intrusting myself to such erratic guidance.
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 by Various
William of Orange had testified his confidence in him by intrusting to him a mission as difficult as it was dangerous, the nature of which we shall know later on.
From A Romance of the West Indies by Sue, Eugène
He might have accepted the suggestion of the captain of a French frigate then at the Ile d'Aix, who begged Napoleon to take the chance of intrusting himself to him.
From Napoleon's Young Neighbor by Reed, Helen Leah
He believes that, by intrusting the matter to a fellow countryman, he will get his boy back again.
From The Blue Lights A Detective Story by Kummer, Frederic Arnold
