1 I felt the greatest eagerness to hear the promised narrative, partly from curiosity and partly from a strong desire to ameliorate his fate if it were in my power.
2 energy; it should have for effort and effect to ameliorate the condition.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER 3 Spring drew on: she was indeed already come; the frosts of winter had ceased; its snows were melted, its cutting winds ameliorated.
4 Work for the amelioration of prisons.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME 5 It is to this point that philosophy and progress tend, with all their organs simultaneously, by their amelioration of the real, as well as by their contemplation of the absolute.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS 6 I have heard that Liebig has made some wonderful discoveries in the amelioration of soils.