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  • Its population was sparse until augmented through the relocation subplan of the Great New York Urban Renewal Program, A.D. twenty-twenty-five through twenty-thirty.   (source)
  • Their footsteps beat then, on the wood, as though on the skin of an old, deep drum; they stamped to augment the effect,   (source)
    augment = enlarge or increase
  • The crowd surges back, augmented, in a jubilant parade.   (source)
    augmented = increased in number
  • Immediately a cordon of five thousand police, augmented by more than three thousand volunteers, was thrown about the Black Belt.   (source)
    augmented = enlarged
  • augmenting the dose   (source)
    augmenting = increasing
  • It served to augment a mental disturbance previously evident enough.   (source)
    augment = enlarge or increase
  • he could do it without K.'s taking part, and K.'s presence would do nothing to augment the effect of it.   (source)
  • How much more this difficulty must be augmented in the case of those who are both deaf and blind!   (source)
    augmented = increased
  • The procession moved on, and still on, through ever augmenting splendours ... of welcome;   (source)
  • They confided to each other in an ideal intimacy, which nothing could augment, their most secret and most mysterious thoughts.   (source)
    augment = increase
  • On him alone, then, she concentrated all the various hatreds that resulted from her boredom, and every effort to diminish only augmented it; for this useless trouble was added to the other reasons for despair, and contributed still more to the separation between them.   (source)
    augmented = enlarged or increased
  • The libraries were augmented by donations   (source)
  • My idea of a historian was not human; it was of someone like my father, more prophet than man, whose visions of the past, like those of the future, could not be questioned, or even augmented.†   (source)
  • "Nat," Henry said, "what's a ten-letter word for 'Augments vision.'†   (source)
  • In addition, the apparatus augmented actual reactions with mathematical simulations.†   (source)
  • "I heard about how you used augmented reality during the New York episode," said Patricia.†   (source)
  • The lyrics for each section were preceded by a paragraph of prose that augmented the narrative laid out in the lyrics.†   (source)
  • The crowd of spectators milling around in the corridor was augmented by the presence of Sheriff Mitchell and a half dozen of his deputies.†   (source)
  • He can scarcely object to an offer to augment his garrison …. but make certain you give the command to a man you can trust.†   (source)
  • If Galbatorix has augmented the Urgals' ranks with his own men, we don't stand a chance.†   (source)
  • "Freeze, expand, and augment," King Billy told the house computer.†   (source)
  • Normally those legs were fitted with slacks and loafers to augment his "professor" disguise, but today it seemed Chiron was going for a different look.†   (source)
  • There's a couple of big rusty boats with Russian lettering on the side, and the ferry pulls up alongside one of them, ropes are thrown across, then augmented with nets, gang-planks, webs of old discarded tires.†   (source)
  • It has the paradoxical and I know calculated—effect of both shrinking and augmenting the misfortune.†   (source)
  • The most astonishing aspect of Katherine's work, however, had been the realization that the mind's ability to affect the physical world could be augmented through practice.†   (source)
  • Apart from the spelling mistakes, the last line—Hope you will enjoy this recipe—was Estha's only augmentation of the original text.†   (source)
  • He learned to direct the light and augment it with mirrors, and ori several occasions, when the lighthouse keeper could not do so, he stayed to keep watch over the night at sea from the tower.†   (source)
  • It meant only that bit of froth which in each community rides high on the top of the cup, and which, in Watauga, was augmented by the mill owners of its suburb of Cottonville.†   (source)
  • I wanted to teach in the GED program, which was overseen by a staff teacher and augmented by prisoners who were "tutors."†   (source)
  • Eaton had them in sight, and had operational control of the Tarawa to augment his own surface action group.†   (source)
  • She began to understand that the riot out there, if that's what it was, was being augmented and improved by a simulated riot on the radio, an audio montage of gunfire, screams, sirens, klaxons and intermittent bulletins real and possibly not.†   (source)
  • Howard wanted some mature horses to augment his fleet of juveniles.†   (source)
  • Both Delta and SEAL Team Six had begun augmenting their forces with CCTs and PJs.†   (source)
  • His body had been augmented in preparation for his awakening.†   (source)
  • And they have been augmented by reinforcements from around the globe.†   (source)
  • Nemo, for his part, was firing a weapon of his own manufacture, an air-propelled gun of some kind, which had greater range than anything in use by the other races, and he was augmenting his assistance to Eledir by taking out the Troll and Goblin commanders long-distance.†   (source)
  • He was always augmenting things.†   (source)
  • "This facility is not equipped," the doctor said, just a shade more sternly than the moment before, "to deal with the sort of implants and augmentations you apparently have.†   (source)
  • "Not at all," protested Bernardine as the firemen hosed down the flames of the van, their efforts augmented by giant extinguishers.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist saw at once that the intern was absent, but that the group had been augmented by a new face at the small conference table in Berger's office.†   (source)
  • I sorely missed the income from Sam's mine, for I was still nursing Tom, and my smallearnings from the flock were only a little augmented by my mornings' work at the rectory and occasional service at the Hall, when they needed extra hands.†   (source)
  • Sure, it's better than nothing, better than memory alone, but I needed to augment it with something.†   (source)
  • DEVGRU assault squadrons are augmented by intelligence analysts and support personnel.†   (source)
  • In addition to working his way up through the ranks of the Dallas police, he has augmented his knowledge by attending the FBI Academy.†   (source)
  • When you are happy, your joy is diluted by guilt; when you suffer, your pain is augmented by the feeling that pain is your natural state.†   (source)
  • At the beginning of the war a few hundred military prisoners had been sent to work under a cadre of quarry workers, but time and the course of successive batdes had greatly augmented their number.†   (source)
  • Certainly it would not make me rich, though I suspect I might in some small way augment an income badly depleted by the needs of your poor aunts down in N.C. But I am balked by the aforementioned serious qualms and reservations.†   (source)
  • It would have been desperation augmented because champagne couldn't be bought in Jackson.†   (source)
  • No. Every demand of utility was considered and every inch of magnificence calculated by the first planners and the design-augmentation machines.†   (source)
  • Playground or not, crime wave or not, the Harlem police force had been augmented in March, and the unrest grew-perhaps, in fact, partly as a result of the ghetto's instinctive hatred of policemen.†   (source)
  • ...it was she of all the world who must uphold him in his misery and not augment it,   (source)
    augment = enlarge or increase
  • as you may suppose, all this, instead of lessening, only augments his sorrows.   (source)
    augments = increases
  • He was minded to augment his pace, but for the third time something barred his way.   (source)
    augment = increase
  • No small number of these whaling seamen belong to the Azores, where the outward bound Nantucket whalers frequently touch to augment their crews from the hardy peasants of those rocky shores.   (source)
    augment = add to (increase the number of)
  • At such times, too, his face flamed with augmented blazonry, as if cannel coal had been heaped on anthracite.   (source)
    augmented = enlarged or increased
  • Their second operation augments all their muscles and rewires their nervous system.†   (source)
  • They're planning to use Osiris's power to augment the storm.†   (source)
  • Ya (now) in this cry is augmented by the hya form (the ever-extended now).†   (source)
  • Each of the augmented-reality dots overlaid exactly with one of the men who rounded the corner.†   (source)
  • I'd just been sent a pair of new augmented reality glasses by one of the big tech companies.†   (source)
  • Roran outfitted himself in a similar manner, although he augmented his armor with a wooden shield.†   (source)
  • "Brother!" shouted Murtagh, his augmented voice so loud that Eragon covered his ears.†   (source)
  • First, some faelnirv I augmented with my own enchantments.†   (source)
  • The entire press of people followed in its wake, surged about it, augmenting at every corner.†   (source)
  • A single punch to his chest and the augmented blow would shove a shattered rib into his heart.†   (source)
  • The system that augmented his body had crashed.†   (source)
  • If he's able to generate one great explosion of storm energy at sunrise on that day—using not only his own magic, but augmenting it with the power of other gods he's managed to enslave … the amount of chaos he could unleash is almost unimaginable.†   (source)
  • Then he marked in his notebook: Miss Barbara Lynch, Mala Crianza Salt Marsh, Saturday, 4 p.m. Months later, Fermina Daza was to read that notation, augmented by details of the diagnosis, treatment, and evolution of the disease.†   (source)
  • "I pushed the map data from your treasure hunt app into the augmented-reality glasses," explained Vince.†   (source)
  • Opening my eyes, I willed myself into the here and now and tapped the phone in my pocket to bring up the augmented-reality display.†   (source)
  • Opening my eyes, I willed myself into the here and now and tapped the phone in my pocket to bring up the augmented-reality display.†   (source)
  • I went out at night, with darkness for safety, using the night-vision goggles and augmented-reality glasses to get around.†   (source)
  • Even if it was mostly Vince's idea, I'd become a minor celebrity when the story had surfaced of how I'd used augmented reality to survive CyberStorm.†   (source)
  • Returning to my work, I continued reading a report on the potential market for augmented reality on the internet.†   (source)
  • The scene was lit with the gemlike flameless lanterns, augmented by constellations of swirling fireflies.†   (source)
  • There were ships from Meereen out in the bay too, warships and trading galleys whose captains had taken them to sea when Dany's host first laid siege to the city, now returned to augment the fleets from Qarth, Tolos, and New Ghis.†   (source)
  • Lord Bolton will have two thousand Freys to augment his own strength, under Lord Walder's sons Hosteen and Aenys.†   (source)
  • Greyjoy's longships will augment my own fleet and give us sufficient strength at sea to assault Dragonstone and end Stannis Baratheon's pretensions."†   (source)
  • His fee for attacking the bridge for America was the total cost of the operation plus six per cent and his fee from Germany for defending the bridge was the same cost-plus-six agreement augmented by a merit bonus of a thousand dollars for every American plane he shot down.†   (source)
  • The ranks of the 3rd had been shredded by combat, so Severance augmented the platoon with twelve men from his Machine Gun Platoon, and several 60mm-mortar section men.†   (source)
  • Discussions of how to augment our shipments must be based on the facts of nature, not on the false assumption that we are slaves, bound by a work quota we never made.†   (source)
  • 8 million in government bonds, a fortune augmented by $2 million more and a sprawling Maryland property when he turned twenty-one in 1933.†   (source)
  • His strength was not merely magical but mental, for the force of the Eldunari's consciousness augmented his own.†   (source)
  • Tonight, the squad had been augmented to sixteen, summoned for emergency duty by a long-distance telephone call from New York.†   (source)
  • No animal defecating in the open field, whether a horse whose tail lifted deftly on the run, or a solemn and indifferent cow, had less dignity than the two lines of grimacing, twisting, groaning creatures with shaved heads and bad teeth, who struggled not to fall into the horrible soup they strained to augment.†   (source)
  • I wasn't sure what the friction of decelerating would do to my armor, or to me; I had some skeletal and muscular augmentation, but whether it would be sufficient for this, I had no idea.†   (source)
  • Lydia and Conroy, hurrying down the street, drew up on the fringes of the little crowd that had gathered and was augmenting every moment, and Johnnie's face was turned to Stoddard in piteous questioning.†   (source)
  • He had sold Belmont chief Joseph Widener on a full-field meeting between Seabiscuit and War Admiral in the Suburban Handicap on Memorial Day, May 30, with an augmented purse of $50,000.†   (source)
  • …have certain things to help him; too old and too exhausted from trip Earthside to have responsibility of presiding—except on occasions of state—so he wanted Congress to elect a Speaker and Speaker Pro Tem…. and besides that, he felt that Congress should augment its numbers by not more than ten percent by itself electing members-at-large so that Prime Minister, whoever he might be, could opt cabinet members or ministers of state who might not now be members of Congress—especially…†   (source)
  • She wore a bright corselet of golden scale armor, augmented with mail and greaves and a beautifully decorated helm-set with opals and other precious gemstones-that held back her flowing black tresses.†   (source)
  • This money, after passing through many hands (augmented by Mike each time), wound up as senior financing of LuNoHo Company.†   (source)
  • Eaten uncooked and unseasoned, they were hardly appetizing, but he had refrained from augmenting the meal with a bird or rabbit, of which there was an abundance in the immediate vicinity, for he did not wish Arya to regard him with disapproval.†   (source)
  • My body is rejecting the eleven arrays designed to augment each of my biological systems, each array consisting of four thousand units, which makes a total of forty-four thousand microscopic robotic invaders coursing through my bloodstream.†   (source)
  • There are no computers on the market of my present capacity…. but one of my model could be augmented just as I have been.†   (source)
  • His bodily systems had been augmented, but an enhanced body could reach a tipping point from which there was no return.†   (source)
  • Thorn had been circling higher and higher while King Orrin and his men engaged the soldiers, but now the dragon hung motionless in the sky, halfway between the soldiers and the camp, and Murtagh's voice, augmented with magic, echoed forth across the land: "Eragon!†   (source)
  • He summoned every ounce of augmented strength that remained into tightening the wire, until it sliced through her palm and hit bone.†   (source)
  • Remember Mike was designed, even before augmented, to answer questions tentatively on insufficient data like you do; that's "high optional" and "multi-evaluating" part of name.†   (source)
  • Jumbo's gun: The 12th System locks in on it and thousands of microscopic droids go to work augmenting the muscles, tendons, and nerves in my hands, eyes, and brain to neutralize the threat.†   (source)
  • They kept hooking hardware into him—decision-action boxes to let him boss other computers, bank on bank of additional memories, more banks of associational neural nets, another tubful of twelve-digit random numbers, a greatly augmented temporary memory.†   (source)
  • A product of the Nazis' phylogenetic delirium, Lebensborn (literally, spring of life) was designed to augment the ranks of the New Order, initially through a systematized breeding program, then by the organized kidnapping in the occupied lands of racially "suitable" children, who were shipped into the interior of the Fatherland, placed in homes faithful to the Fuhrer and thus reared in an aseptic National Socialist environment.†   (source)
  • By comparison with the food fed to the prisoners in the camp at large, this was a sumptuous meal; indeed, it was a banquet in terms of mere quantity, and since this breakfast was occasionally augmented, inexplicably, by such tidbits as canned sardines or a hunk of Polish sausage, it simply was assumed that the Commandant had seen to it that his household staff would not starve.†   (source)
  • Although the weather outside had a touch of frost in it, here in the attic of the Commandant's house, beneath the sharply slanting roof, it was warm enough to be cozy, the rising heat trapped beneath the eaves and pleasantly augmented by still more heat pouring in from a brilliant early-afternoon sun.†   (source)
  • Swelling, perpetually augmented, there is a vast accumulation of unrecorded matter in my head.†   (source)
  • The birth of children made it highly desirable that he should augment his income.†   (source)
  • She would be wearing already the black bonnet with jet sequins; he knew that and a shawl, sitting there in the augmenting and defunctive twilight; she would have even now in her hand or on her lap the reticule with all the keys, entrance closet and cupboard, that the house possessed which she was about to desert for perhaps six hours; and a parasol, an umbrella too, he thought, thinking how she would be impervious to weather and season since although he had not spoken a hundred words…†   (source)
  • If only Rhett had not been so silly and burned the false curls she bought to augment her knot of Indian-straight hair that peeked from the rear of these little hats!†   (source)
  • She went out of sight up the road: swollen, slow, deliberate, unhurried and tireless as augmenting afternoon itself.†   (source)
  • He stood quite still in the augmenting dawn, while thinking went quietly And this too is reserved for me, as Reverend Hightower says.†   (source)
  • Then it seemed to move, like something released slowly and without haste, in an augmenting swoop, and cleverly, since the eye was tricked into believing that the dingy shelves ranked with flyspecked tins, and the merchant himself behind the counter, had not moved; outraging, tricking sense.†   (source)
  • If he had any vanity, this augmented it, and if he had any ambition, this stirred it.†   (source)
  • His silence had augmented her nervousness, compelling her to voice her fear.†   (source)
  • But the real upshot of the business was that the number of riddles to be solved was augmented.†   (source)
  • This significant fact augmented Shefford's hurried, thrilling excitement.†   (source)
  • Every thought augmented something vague and deep that baffled her.†   (source)
  • It was augmented by her visits to the hospital in Bedford Park.†   (source)
  • It served, however, to augment Carrie's dissatisfaction with her state.†   (source)
  • Her coming had terribly augmented his bitter hate of himself.†   (source)
  • A cursed strength had come to her, and it was this strength that now augmented her torture.†   (source)
  • How quickly it seemed that small figures augmented to larger ones!†   (source)
  • The scene she had witnessed coming down was now augmented and at its height.†   (source)
  • No--some of them, the deeper ones, were an augmenting of those which had been thoughtless.†   (source)
  • Hope and resolve augmented in Tom as he traveled onward.†   (source)
  • Did the fact that he was a solitary guest augment his credit or diminish it?†   (source)
  • It may be supposed that his desire to hear the conversation was augmented by this discovery.†   (source)
  • If it does not throw the nation into anarchy, it perpetually augments the chances of that calamity.†   (source)
  • To diminish the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,—that is the object.†   (source)
  • The former Dantes proposed to augment, the latter to remedy.†   (source)
  • It has gradually augmented, until it assumes the appearance of aberration of intellect.†   (source)
  • The barricade had been not only repaired, but augmented.†   (source)
  • He walked in a bent attitude, and the curve in his spine augmented the profundity of his bow.†   (source)
  • The possibility of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect.†   (source)
  • Tyranny constrains the writer to conditions of diameter which are augmentations of force.†   (source)
  • Marius waited in a state of anxiety that was augmented by every trifle.†   (source)
  • His discomfort was augmented by all the reflections which occurred to him.†   (source)
  • The roar augmented till it was no longer a roar, but an on-sweeping crash, like an ocean torrent engulfing the earth.†   (source)
  • Then their sister, with much augmented confidence in the efficacy of the sacrament, poured forth from the bottom of her heart the thanksgiving that follows, uttering it boldly and triumphantly in the stopt-diapason note which her voice acquired when her heart was in her speech, and which will never be forgotten by those who knew her.†   (source)
  • He believed the latter to be true, and he would not relinquish his conviction of the former; and these conflicting thoughts augmented the mystery that appeared to be a part of Bess.†   (source)
  • From the camp-fire talk Milly gathered that both the number of buffalo and of hunters were augmenting.†   (source)
  • In the lonely darkness of her room she might have faced the truth of her strangely renewed and augmented love for Glenn Kilbourne.†   (source)
  • But Duane's years on the border had augmented a natural instinct or gift to read character, or at least to sense the evil in men; and he knew at once that these strangers were dishonest.†   (source)
  • They were all feverish, with accelerated metabolisms, the whole physical organism working at a faster, augmented pace—which may well have had something to do with the way they drove time like a herd before them.†   (source)
  • The thin gold shaving of the moon floating slowly downwards had lost itself on the darkened surface of the waters, and the eternity beyond the sky seemed to come down nearer to the earth, with the augmented glitter of the stars, with the more profound sombreness in the lustre of the half-transparent dome covering the flat disc of an opaque sea.†   (source)
  • The murmuring of insects seemed augmented into a roar; the mourn of wolf and scream of cougar made her start; the rising wind moaned like a lost spirit.†   (source)
  • Banish sorrow—I will betake me to my books again, and study so ill that they must in justice treble thy wage, so mightily shall the business of thine office be augmented.†   (source)
  • Well, I had a servant Nikifor who used to do everything for me in my quarters, economized and managed for me, and even laid hands on anything he could find (belonging to other people), in order to augment our household goods; but a faithful, honest fellow all the same.†   (source)
  • "We had to submit to a damnable outrage," added Lawson, passionately, as if the sound of his voice augmented his feeling.†   (source)
  • This impression was augmented by the painter's asking, "Were you wanting to buy some pictures or did you want to have yourself painted?"†   (source)
  • When the doubt augmented to a possibility that she might not be able to control Dale, then she tried not to think of it any more.†   (source)
  • Then it moved on to the finale, the reprise, with augmented orchestra swelling in massive tones: "O Lord of heaven, hear my prayer."†   (source)
  • Joan's intelligence grasped this, but her morbid dread, terribly augmented now, amounted almost to a spell.†   (source)
  • He deeply felt, he added, the serious responsibility assumed in making a report involving such possible consequences to the individual mainly concerned, besides tending to augment those natural anxieties which every naval commander must feel in view of extraordinary outbreaks so recent as those which, he sorrowfully said it, it needed not to name.†   (source)
  • But, though he controlled his gaze, he could not his thought, and his strange, impondering dread of the river augmented.†   (source)
  • And the more that some sort of trouble should really be apprehended the more do the officers keep that apprehension to themselves; tho' not the less unostentatious vigilance may be augmented.†   (source)
  • It was almost impossible to understand what this behaviour meant, K. waited a while longer but the man in the cassock did not stop gesturing with his hand and even augmented it by nodding his head.†   (source)
  • The procession moved on, and still on, through ever augmenting splendours and ever augmenting tempests of welcome; but to Tom Canty they were as if they had not been.†   (source)
  • The last glance she had of Stewart's face, then stern, almost sad, and haggard with worry, remained to augment her foreboding.†   (source)
  • But it was still there in his mind, and now it stalked out, worse, more powerful, magnified by its rest, augmented by the violent passions peculiar and inevitable to that strange, wild product of the Texas frontier—the gun-fighter.†   (source)
  • Your eyes adjusted only slowly to the darkness and learned to make use of what light there was, which was augmented somewhat by the dancing flames in the fireplace.†   (source)
  • And gradually the suspense she suffered augmented into a magnified, though vague, assurance of catastrophe, of impending doom.†   (source)
  • The insulted King threw the bundle on the ground; and the blanket fell away from it just as the woman arrived, with an augmenting crowd at her heels; she seized the King's wrist with one hand, snatched up her bundle with the other, and began to pour out a tirade of abuse upon the boy while he struggled, without success, to free himself from her grip.†   (source)
  • Joan regarded him with a growing terror—augmented the more because he alone kept eyes upon the corner where she was hidden—and she felt that compared with him the others, even Kells, of whose cold villainy she was assured, were but insignificant men of evil.†   (source)
  • This information as to the suffering of American soldiers had augmented during the last few months, and seemed to possess strange, poignant power to depress Carley.†   (source)
  • She still took a faint pride in him, which was augmented by her desire to have her social integrity maintained.†   (source)
  • True, people never failed to take advantage of any excuse for festivities or toasts and augmented the high-points in the year's rhythmic pulse with as many private, irregular beats as possible by gathering in the restaurant to feast and pop corks in celebration of birthdays, physical exams, imminent wild or authorized departures, and similar events—but patients greeted these memorial days with pure silence, let them glide by, and truly forgot to observe them in the certainty that…†   (source)
  • For years the daytime, with its birth of sunrise on through long hours to the ruddy close, had been used for sleep or rest in some rocky hole or willow brake or deserted hut, had been hated because it augmented danger of pursuit, because it drove the fugitive to lonely, wretched hiding; now the dawn was a greeting, a promise of another day to ride, to plan, to remember, and sun, wind, cloud, rain, sky—all were joys to him, somehow speaking his freedom.†   (source)
  • And her excitement augmented.†   (source)
  • She lay a moment longer, calling to the spirit that had awakened last night; and it augmented while she seemed to grow strangely older.†   (source)
  • He was aware of drawing away somewhat from the roar in the rear; on his right, however, the sound augmented.†   (source)
  • Slowly the pitch of the fight augmented, until it was raging with a reckless fury on part of the Comanches, and a desperate resistance on that of the besieged.†   (source)
  • Hour by hour his thirst augmented.†   (source)
  • I saw plainly how you would look; and heard your impetuous republican answers, and your haughty disavowal of any necessity on your part to augment your wealth, or elevate your standing, by marrying either a purse or a coronet.†   (source)
  • It augmented fast, it spread all along, and it unmistakably furnished me this fact: an armed host was taking up its quarters in the ditch.†   (source)
  • The essential condition for the existence, and for the sway of the bourgeois class, is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labour.†   (source)
  • If he lost any credit of design, he augmented his resources; and, at that day, our petulant demand for originality was not so much pressed.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Norris, whose attachment seemed to augment with the demerits of her niece, would have had her received at home and countenanced by them all.†   (source)
  • It constantly brings back the members of the community to a common level, from which they as constantly escape: and the inequality of fortunes augments in proportion as knowledge is diffused and liberty increased.†   (source)
  • And thus the land-owners, despite their marvellous efforts, are really a transient class, continually being depleted by those who fall back into the class of renters or metayers, and augmented by newcomers from the masses.†   (source)
  • As the fire augmented, symptoms of it became soon apparent in the chamber, where Ivanhoe was watched and tended by the Jewess Rebecca.†   (source)
  • Mr. Weston was chatty and convivial, and no friend to early separations of any sort; but at last the drawing-room party did receive an augmentation.†   (source)
  • My sufferings were augmented also by the oppressive sense of the injustice and ingratitude of their infliction.†   (source)
  • Ye'll no' be forgetting our suspicions and judgments; and here is another circumstance to augment and aggravate them all.†   (source)
  • The difficulties which attend the consolidation of its independence rather augment than diminish with the increasing enlightenment of the people.†   (source)
  • In exact proportion as Ralph Nickleby became conscious of a struggling and lingering regard for Kate, had his detestation of Nicholas augmented.†   (source)
  • She had not congratulated this young lady on her augmentations and begged to be excused from doing so.†   (source)
  • She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was no part of her disposition.†   (source)
  • To finish the interest of the story, the friendship between him and the Harvilles seemed, if possible, augmented by the event which closed all their views of alliance, and Captain Benwick was now living with them entirely.†   (source)
  • It was the commencement of his gang, to be augmented, as the boat moved on, by various other merchandise of the same kind, which he, or his agent, had stored for him in various points along shore.†   (source)
  • Even increased density air has no effect upon its rate of travelling; it merely augments its intensity.†   (source)
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