He grafted many cherries, plums, etc., in March, 1764, and yet again in the spring of 1765, when he put English mulberry scions on wild mulberry stocks.

"If crowding figures be bad, it is still worse to graft one figure upon another.

The result of grafting the richest varieties of thought upon such a sturdy stock could not fail of proving something rare and rich.

The Apostle instructs us to take advantage of our present Temper of Mind, to graft upon it such a religious Exercise as is particularly conformable to it, by that Precept which advises those who are sad to pray, and those who are merry to sing Psalms.

If thou be wise keep thee so, she'll perhaps graft horns in thine absence, scowl on thee coming home.7.

These lines he loved, as he loved the works of this poet who, in an age of democracy devoted to lucre, lived his solitary and literary life sheltered by his disdain from the encompassing stupidity, delighting, far from society, in the surprises of the intellect, in cerebral visions, refining on subtle ideas, grafting Byzantine delicacies upon them, perpetuating them in suggestions lightly connected by an almost imperceptible thread.

Jesuitism has grafted its faith upon the superstitions of the Montezumas, and a curious fruitage is the result.

My Friend, an honest plain Man, not being qualified to pass away his Time without the Reliefs of Business, has grafted the Farmer upon the Gentleman, and brought himself to submit even to the servile Parts of that Employment, such as inspecting his Plough, and the like.

It was with such intelligent curiosity that some farmers first cultivated their vines a second and a third time, and deferred grafting the figs from spring to summer.

It is already possible to remove almost any portion of the human body, including, if needful, large sections of the brain; it is possible to graft living flesh on living flesh, make new connections, mould, displace, and rearrange.

The Chinese are fond of making fantastic experiments in grafting and sometimes succeed in the most heterogeneous combinations, such as grafting flowers upon fruit trees.

If I were you I wouldn't graft that kind o' fruit on the grocery-tree.

'Tis a tree on which have been grafted Homer, Virgil, Milton, Dante, Petrarch; hence have grown peculiar flowers which are not natural, and yet which are not artificial.

[Footnote: The last of these was the most pretentious and short-lived and least characteristic of the three, as Henderson made an abortive effort to graft on it the utterly foreign idea of a proprietary colony.

In his campaigns against the Indians he adopted the tactics of his foes, and grafted on them some important improvements of his own.

It is the hardiest and least exacting of the large flowered species, and is generally employed as a stock on which to graft the less hardy kinds.

Then his thoughts began to obsess him less; his suffering disappeared and to the exhaustion he had felt throughout his members was grafted a certain indescribable languor.

Englishmen who seek to do their duty by India have potential allies in the educated classes, who have grafted Western learning on a civilisation much more ancient than their own.

The city council has not dared to pass grafting measures with a roomful of women looking on.

Perhaps it is this system that leads grafting members of short experience to wonder how knowledge of their taking what is termed "the sugar" got out and became known to their associates.

By grafting new monopolies upon those already existing, he believes that the tobacco produce can be increased from 182,102 cwt.

On its own roots, and allowed to roam at will, this pretty, small-growing Broom is of far greater interest than when it is grafted mop-high on a Laburnum stem, and pruned into artificial shapes, as is, unfortunately, too often the case.

If I were you I wouldn't graft that kind o' fruit on the grocery-tree.

Too long neglected by the authorities and the public, the so-called levee districts of the city had fallen into the hands of grafting police officials, who, working with the lowest of degraded of men, had created an open and most brazen vice syndicate.

Plato indeed carries the Thought very far, when he grafts upon it his Opinion of Ghosts appearing in Places of Burial.