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 (V2) By Victor HugoGet Context 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 (V1) By Victor HugoGet Context 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 (V3) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS 6 I have heard that Liebig has made some wonderful discoveries in the amelioration of soils.
Fathers and Children By Ivan TurgenevGet Context In CHAPTER VI