1 Rumors of Abolitionist sympathies did not enhance the popularity of the MacIntoshes.
2 They stimulate him to greater watchfulness, and enhance his power to capture his slave.
3 A circumstance which greatly tended to enhance the tyranny of the nobility, and the sufferings of the inferior classes, arose from the consequences of the Conquest by Duke William of Normandy.
4 Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest.
5 But the smile did not enhance Vera's beauty as smiles generally do; on the contrary it gave her an unnatural, and therefore unpleasant, expression.
6 The impatience of Cedric had been rather enhanced than diminished by his confinement.
7 Novelty in society and adventure were the zest of life to Richard Coeur-de-Lion, and it had its highest relish when enhanced by dangers encountered and surmounted.
8 Her long mourning robes and her flowing wimple of black cypress, enhanced the whiteness of her skin, and the beauty of her light-coloured and flowing tresses, which time had neither thinned nor mingled with silver.
9 Instead of being ruined, my good sir, you will find that your reputation has been enormously enhanced.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER 10 I saw few human beings besides them, and if any other happened to enter the cottage, their harsh manners and rude gait only enhanced to me the superior accomplishments of my friends.
11 Among the men was an Italian prisoner, an officer of the French army; and Nicholas felt that the presence of that prisoner enhanced his own importance as a Russian hero.
12 This light enhanced the scarlet of the flag, with an indescribable and terrible purple.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VI—WAITING 13 He was as radiant, as if his chair, his asthma, and the failure of his limbs, were the various branches of a great invention for enhancing the luxury of a pipe.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY 14 She had learned the value of contrast in throwing her charms into relief, and was fully aware of the extent to which Mrs. Fisher's volubility was enhancing her own repose.
15 Every hour seemed to be enhancing her loveliness.