All 35 Uses of
augment
in
Les Miserables
- Unhappiness, which also possesses a clearness of vision of its own, augmented the small amount of daylight which existed in this mind.†
Chpt 1.2
- There exist crab-like souls which are continually retreating towards the darkness, retrograding in life rather than advancing, employing experience to augment their deformity, growing incessantly worse, and becoming more and more impregnated with an ever-augmenting blackness.†
Chpt 1.4
- There exist crab-like souls which are continually retreating towards the darkness, retrograding in life rather than advancing, employing experience to augment their deformity, growing incessantly worse, and becoming more and more impregnated with an ever-augmenting blackness.†
Chpt 1.4
- It is not for myself that I am doing it; the prosperity of all goes on augmenting; industries are aroused and animated; factories and shops are multiplied; families, a hundred families, a thousand families, are happy; the district becomes populated; villages spring up where there were only farms before; farms rise where there was nothing; wretchedness disappears, and with wretchedness debauchery, prostitution, theft, murder; all vices disappear, all crimes: and this poor mother rears…†
Chpt 1.7
- In the meantime, the unfortunate topman was losing his strength; his anguish could not be discerned on his face, but his exhaustion was visible in every limb; his arms were contracted in horrible twitchings; every effort which he made to re-ascend served but to augment the oscillations of the foot-rope; he did not shout, for fear of exhausting his strength.†
Chpt 2.2
- They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, the wrongs are not increased by them.†
Chpt 3.3
- His discomfort was augmented by all the reflections which occurred to him.†
Chpt 3.4
- What augmented Father Gillenormand's secret suffering was, that he locked it all up within his breast, and did not allow its existence to be divined.†
Chpt 3.5
- Nevertheless, in spite of all this, and because of all this, his passion augmented and grew to madness.†
Chpt 3.6
- Marius waited in a state of anxiety that was augmented by every trifle.†
Chpt 3.8
- Here, then, lies the great art: to make a little render to success the sound of a catastrophe in order that those who profit by it may tremble from it also, to season with fear every step that is taken, to augment the curve of the transition to the point of retarding progress, to dull that aurora, to denounce and retrench the harshness of enthusiasm, to cut all angles and nails, to wad triumph, to muffle up right, to envelop the giant-people in flannel, and to put it to bed very…†
Chpt 4.1
- She felt an anguish at her heart, which nothing relieved, and which augmented every day; she no longer knew whether it was winter or summer, whether it was raining or shining, whether the birds were singing, whether it was the season for dahlias or daisies, whether the Luxembourg was more charming than the Tuileries, whether the linen which the laundress brought home was starched too much or not enough, whether Toussaint had done "her marketing" well or ill; and she remained dejected,…†
Chpt 4.3
- After a life of love, an eternity of love is, in fact, an augmentation; but to increase in intensity even the ineffable felicity which love bestows on the soul even in this world, is impossible, even to God.†
Chpt 4.5
- They confided to each other in an ideal intimacy, which nothing could augment, their most secret and most mysterious thoughts.
Chpt 4.5 *augment = increase
- To diminish the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,—that is the object.†
Chpt 4.7
- …hundred hands to extend in all directions to the oppressed and the feeble, in employing the collective power for that grand duty of opening workshops for all arms, schools for all aptitudes, and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting salaries, diminishing trouble, balancing what should be and what is, that is to say, in proportioning enjoyment to effort and a glut to need; in a word, in evolving from the social apparatus more light and more comfort for the benefit…†
Chpt 4.7
- Absence, as is always the case in genuine and natural sentiments, had only served to augment the grandfather's love for the ungrateful child, who had gone off like a flash.†
Chpt 4.8
- M. Gillenormand felt that Marius would leave him in a few moments, that his harsh reception had repelled the lad, that his hardness was driving him away; he said all this to himself, and it augmented his grief; and as his grief was straightway converted into wrath, it increased his harshness.†
Chpt 4.8
- These gifts of a world to civilization are such augmentations of light, that all resistance in that case is culpable.†
Chpt 4.10
- Tyranny constrains the writer to conditions of diameter which are augmentations of force.†
Chpt 4.10
- On the 5th of June, accordingly, a day of mingled rain and sun, General Lamarque's funeral procession traversed Paris with official military pomp, somewhat augmented through precaution.†
Chpt 4.10
- The band augmented every moment.†
Chpt 4.11
- Jean Valjean, with a view to augmenting the solitude and the mystery of this departure, had arranged to quit the pavilion of the Rue Plumet only at dusk, which had allowed Cosette time to write her note to Marius.†
Chpt 4.15
- At this double discharge, whose fury seemed augmented by the stupor of the night, Jean Valjean started; he rose, turning towards the quarter whence the noise proceeded; then he fell back upon the post again, folded his arms, and his head slowly sank on his bosom again.†
Chpt 4.15
- The barricade had been not only repaired, but augmented.†
Chpt 5.1
- Moreover, it had been a long time since he had seen him; and this still further augmented the impossibility for Marius' timid and reserved nature.†
Chpt 5.1
- "Yes," replied Combeferre, "that augments the projectile force, but diminishes the accuracy of the firing.†
Chpt 5.1
- The possibility of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect.†
Chpt 5.1
- His beauty, at that moment augmented by his pride, was resplendent, and he was fresh and rosy after the fearful four and twenty hours which had just elapsed, as though he could no more be fatigued than wounded.†
Chpt 5.1
- The fall of everything around him only augmented Grantaire's prostration; the crumbling of all things was his lullaby.†
Chpt 5.1
- Through this simple act, the entire social community will experience a diminution of misery and an augmentation of health.†
Chpt 5.2
- The two bridges, situated thus close together, augment the peril; the water hurries in formidable wise through the arches.†
Chpt 5.4
- Marius, who had always present to his mind the inflexible grandfather of his early years, interpreted this silence as a profound concentration of wrath, augured from it a hot conflict, and augmented his preparations for the fray in the inmost recesses of his mind.†
Chpt 5.5
- He walked in a bent attitude, and the curve in his spine augmented the profundity of his bow.†
Chpt 5.9
- The stranger stretched his neck out of his cravat, a gesture characteristic of the vulture, and replied with an augmented smile.†
Chpt 5.9
Definition:
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(augment) enlarge or increase