At length the physician that attended her determined to adventure upon an experiment, to take advantage of one of those cheerful moods when her mind was visited by hope, and to endeavour to engraft, as it were, the reality upon the delusions of her fancy.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
In fact, of such immeasurable importance is good English in this connection, that it would be no hardship were every separate clause of whatever formulary it may be proposed to engraft upon the Prayer Book to be subjected to the most searching tests.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
We must not prolong babyhood into the kindergarten; or, at least, we must begin to engraft personal consciousness upon it, by playing little antagonisms merely.
"Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School"
Elizabeth P. Peabody