Let the shorn and blinded giant grind in the prison-house of the Philistines, till taught the folly of intrusting to Delilahs the secret and the custody of his strength.
He failed in the first campaign, however, by intrusting the command to incompetent hands, consulting birth rather than talent or experience.
Ferdinand showed some reluctance at intrusting so delicate a commission to an envoy in whose discretion he placed small reliance, which was not augmented by the known partiality which Philip entertained for the French monarch.
In intrusting power to Hamilcar, the government of wealthy citizens only gave him military control.
Jerusalem being at this distance, was an important post to hold, and the Persian court saw the wisdom of intrustingits defense to faithful allies.
Frau von Lasberg, who was sniffing at her vinaigrette, looked dismayed; she had no idea of intrusting her precious health to this peasant doctor.
The lady cleared her throat and looked significantly at the engineer, who was intrusting his betrothed's health to a doctor of peasants.
And there is, at all events, great risk in intrusting his betrothed to the care of a young physician who, by his own confession, has practised almost exclusively among peasants.
But it was clear that this lull would not long continue, and the Chinese emperor, Tienki, endeavored to meet the coming storm by once more intrusting the defense of the frontier to Tingbi.
He raised an enormous force for the campaign, which might have proved successful but for the mistake of intrusting the command to an incompetent general.
Hitherto grief and revenge have inspired her utterances; her affection to Don Ottavio has been indicated by her intrusting to him her most sacred interests and duties.
I would bestow them willingly on you," said the King; "but I cannot do so without intrusting them also to your son and to his successors.
In the veryintrusting my children to your care, do I not prove that I must think you so?
Madame thanked him very profusely; but assured him that so long as the weather looked so stormy she could not think of intrusting Josephine and Veronique to the mercy of the waves.
I can scarcely believe any one was foolish enough to think of intrusting any serious duty to a man like that.
It shows the danger of intrusting the fate of an army to a man who cannot weigh evidence.
The Frankfurt proposals were now quietly waived, and Metternich came to see the need of withdrawing Belgium from France and intrusting it to the House of Orange.
When Stanley, in 1877, intrusting his life and fortunes to a mighty and unknown stream, voyaged toward the very heart of the Dark Continent, even his wildest dreams could not have foreshadowed results equal to the reality of a near future.
If his prospective patrons expostulated on this score before intrusting him with their valuables, they were at liberty to take their work elsewhere.
It was Max Diestricht who honoured you by accepting the commission; not you who honoured Max Diestricht by intrusting him with it.
Fear of "the King of Hanover" was described as the reason for intrusting him as a baby to Admiral Allan, whose frigate was off the coast.
Valerian was reduced to the necessity of intrusting his life and dignity to the faith of an enemy.
William of Orange had testified his confidence in him by intrustingto him a mission as difficult as it was dangerous, the nature of which we shall know later on.
Thus, your highness, King James gives you a mark of the highest confidence in intrusting to you the defense of his rights and those of his young son.
A few days later he signed the famous decretal by which he himself annulled the marriage between Henry and Catherine; but instead of intrusting it to Gardiner, he gave it to Campeggio, with orders not to let it go out of his hands.
It met them by intrusting "the enforcement of the law to be enacted to one person alone.
While these events occurred in Sparta, Cimon, intrusting to others the continued siege of Thasos, had returned to Athens [179].
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intrusting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
