All 5 Uses of
enhance
in
Bleak House
- The few moments that were occupied by Prince in taking leave of us (and particularly of one of us, as I saw, being in the secret), enhanced my favourable impression of his almost childish character.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- We went to Newman Street two or three times, where preparations were in progress too—a good many, I observed, for enhancing the comforts of old Mr. Turveydrop, and a few for putting the newly married couple away cheaply at the top of the house—but our great point was to make the furnished lodging decent for the wedding-breakfast and to imbue Mrs. Jellyby beforehand with some faint sense of the occasion.†
Chpt 28-30
- It told me that I would gain nothing by such a marriage and lose nothing by rejecting it, for no new relation could enhance the tenderness in which he held me, and whatever my decision was, he was certain it would be right.†
Chpt 43-45
- I had no need to remind myself that I was not there by the indulgence of any feeling of mine to increase the difficulties of the search, or to lessen its hopes, or enhance its delays.†
Chpt 55-57
- Night was setting in, and its bleakness was enhanced by the contrast of the pictured fire glowing and gleaming in the windowpane.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(enhance) increase quantity or improve quality