Verb (used with object) : We entrusted him with our lives. ,to entrust a secret, money, powers, or work to another. From Dictionary.com.
And now I want to intrust you with a great secret. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
"To whom shall we intrust the deed?" asked the Horse. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Toyland What the Marionette Told Molly] Reference
This Cossinius, to whom I intrust my letter, seems to me. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
Liberty: we intrust to thy hand a share of our emancipation!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Some of them even wanted to intrust him with cash in addition. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
President, in his judgment, should see fit to intrust one to me. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
To no famous brush dared he intrust his rather obvious commission. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
I think, dear reader, that we may safely intrust that duty to Mr. Jonas. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Woman] Reference
If she trusted her lover thoroughly, she would intrust all risks to love. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference
'Very well; I can't intrust the girl's character to people without name.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
I myself will write to his emperor and intrust my letter to the ambassador. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
Besides, there are certain domestic troubles, which I do not intrust to writing. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
"And I replied that I was sure I could not intrust my honor to better hands," replied Florent. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Remember, you are about to intrust yourself alone with an aristocrat, a betrayer, an oppressor. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Marius at last persuaded the people to elect him consul and intrust him with the conduct of the war. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
For you this sketch was written: permit me to dedicate it to you, in fact, to intrust it to your care. From Wordnik.com. [How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition] Reference
Neither, however, to visible or invisible guardian angel would He intrust the invitation, which, to crown. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation] Reference
"I will defend her with my life, sir," I hastened to aver, "since you are so good as to intrust her to me.". From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
Gilbert Sterling to perform truly and faithfully any duty which his employers may see fit to intrust him with. From Wordnik.com. [Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines] Reference
The Majorcan captain was an odd character to intrust with such an enterprise, and probably nowhere else, save in. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
What qualities did the Italian at once recognize in the peasant woman which led him to intrust his safety to her?. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
Not a single solicitor would listen to our wooing, or even intrust us with the task of making the simplest motion. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
The Elector, it is said, studied sometime before he decided to whom he could intrust this vast sum during his absence. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
The dealers hesitated to intrust me with the carrying out of large contracts, while favoring me with the smaller orders. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance and Tragedy] Reference
"I shall know better than to intrust him to your care again," said indignant mamma, as one who withdrew a blessed privilege. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference
"I 'lowed you'd take an intrust in that thar business, an' I thort as a friend you ort to be told of it," he added virtuously. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
Then, sir, I move you that this Assembly forthwith take it out of your possession and intrust it to a committee for safe-keeping. From Wordnik.com. [The Tree That Saved Connecticut] Reference
She offered D'Alembert to intrust him with the education of her only son, and to settle on him a pension of 50,000 francs (£2000). From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
I have induced that woman in whose charge it was left to intrust it to my keeping, with the express intention of showing it to you. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
There are boats going up the river every week, and always some one going back to the old home to whom we could intrust mademoiselle. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
The skipper was hardly the person to intrust with the care of finding a teacher and looking up school-books, and for a time they were in doubt and perplexity. From Wordnik.com. [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference
The ambassadors, however, allowed themselves to be cajoled and deceived by the Cardinal of Lorraine, to whom they had the imprudence to intrust their petition. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
It is especially the custom of Congress to intrust to the Secretary of the Treasury specific powers over the currency, the public debt and the collection of the revenue. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
About the middle of January the Cabinet came together and, at the solicitation of Archbishop Ulfsson, resolved to intrust the government for the time being to Erik Trolle. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
Some, more bold, intrust the bougie performance to the patient in order that a daily dilatation and stimulation may be kept up until "recovery from the disease is effected.". From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
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