These delights were enhanced by the memory of past hardships: the comparison of their native soil, the bleak and barren hills of Scythia, and the frozen banks of the Elbe and Danube, added new charms to the felicity of the Italian climate.
Two of them lost their speech by fornication; but the miracle is enhanced by the singular instance of a boy who had never spoken before his tongue was cut out.
The merit of this impartial policy wasenhanced by the situation of Spain under the reign of the Visigoths.
It was the constant study of his life to suppress, or regulate, the intemperate sallies of passion and the success of his efforts enhanced the merit of his clemency.
They returned to their own house on the restoration with confused notions of their high jurisdiction, rather enhanced than abated by the humiliation they had undergone.
This was of course enhanced by the insolent and injudicious confidence of the Romish faction, especially the priests, in their demeanour, their language, and their publications.
These distresses again were enhanced by the depreciation of the circulating coin, and by the bold remedy of a re-coinage, which made the immediate stagnation of commerce more complete.
The increased facilities of transport, and several improvements in military art and science, which will occur to the reader, have in later times greatly enhanced this advantage.
The interest of it wasenhanced by the presence of the great apostle of Spiritualism - Sir William Crookes.
Her mere physical beauty had its effect on him, and the soft moonlight and her clinging white draperies enhanced and etherealized it, but it was not that which set his heart beating a trifle faster and sent a faint thrill through him.
She lay not far away from him in a big Madeira chair, loosely draped in diaphanous white attire whichenhanced the violet depths of her eyes and the duskiness of her hair, and her face showed in the moonlight the clear pallor of ivory.
Contrasting Eugene Sue with Balzac, she finds in the first an equal power of observation, disturbed by a more variable temperament, and enhanced by "the heart and faith that Balzac lacks.
But, even if it were to come suddenly, she finds in her own sex "a reverence for decorums and limits inherited and enhanced from generation to generation, which years of other life could not efface.
A lofty and religious Sabbath sentiment enhanced the charm of the whole meal.
Then, after a heated discussion, Pittsburg was established as the county seat, which enhanced its prestige.
What if it had grown creamy by age, that only enhanced it.
While a university degree thus enhanced both the social and legal status of sons of yeomen and tradesmen, the sons of equally reputable people who became actors were correspondingly debased both socially and legally.
While it is clearly impossible that Shakespeare owed his introduction to the theatre to Southampton, there can be little doubt, in the light of data to follow, that his rise in life was much enhanced by his friendship and patronage.
Actually, there do not seem to be any grounds for regarding appreciation as anything but an intentionally enhanced or intensified experience of an object.
Intelligence, knowledge, may be involved in the steps taken to get the enhanced experience, but that does not make the landscape or the Parthenon as fully savored a cognitive object.
The fascination of the Sands was greatly enhanced by the numerous birds which at all times frequented them, in search of the abundant food which lay buried along the edges of the muddy gutters.
All his teachings were, like Mark Twain's, enhanced by such over-emphasis or exaggeration.
Moulmein is a very pretty place, and its charms are enhanced by its being out of the beaten track of tourists.
Of these water is the commonest, and its efficacy is enhanced if it be running, and still more if a magical or sacramental virtue has been imparted to it by ritual blessing or consecration.
American marine to the British flag, the enhanced payments of insurance, the expenses of pursuit and the prolongation of the war.
Nevertheless in all religions, and especially in the Brahmanic and Christian, the cathartic virtue of water is enhanced by the introduction into it by means of suitable prayers and incantations of a divine or magical power.
Harnack finds that our sense of the trustworthiness of the book ``is enhanced by a thorough study of the chronological procedure of its author, both where he speaks and where he keeps silence.
The first-fruits of a virgin soil have been expended in forms which have vastly enhanced the productive power of the country.
Bakewell's fame as a breeder was for a time enhanced by the improvement which he effected on the Long-horned cattle, then the prevailing breed of the midland counties of England.
In short the Afridi has the vices and virtues of all Pathans in an enhanced degree.
This fear was enhanced by the knowledge that if Charles died the crown would fall to his brother, an uncompromising Catholic.
A cry was raised that the price of corn and bread was being enhanced by the action of forestallers, and the lord mayor was instructed by letter from Sunderland (3 Oct.
All the courts and committees had their chancellors or secretaries, whose importance depended on circumstances, but was enhanced by the fact that they were permanent officials, while the members were constantly changing.
Instead of a percentage the contributors received a monopoly of salt, with the privilege of selling it to the retail dealers at anenhanced price.
Their industry and prudence have already enhanced their credit.
The road leading down into the valley of Grand Round, is circuitous, and its difficulty of travel enhanced by its roughness; it is about one and a half miles in length, to where it reaches the bottom.
In such a Turkey France, whose traditional prestige has been enhanced by victory, will be able to exercise the influence she is entitled to by the important moral and economic interests she owns in Turkey.
In spite of what has often been said, it seems that the Christian Church did not so much protect Hellenism against the Turks as the Orthodox Church enhanced the prosperity of the Greeks within the Turkish Empire.
The value of this unexpected aid was enhanced by the spirit which prompted the patriotic offer.
Her satisfaction in his success was enhancedby the knowledge that he preserved unsullied what was of far greater moment in her eyes--his youthful piety.
They are offered only to be forgotten; but the enjoyment of the next Chickadee troop you encounter will be enhanced by an effort to realize the striking variety of the notes heard.
On the 15th of March a flock of fifty Bluebirds, all males, were sighted flying in close order over the mountain-side, a vision of loveliness which was enhanced by the presence of a dozen or more Westerns.
It is certain that the probability of general truth in these concurrent testimonies is greatlyenhanced by their independence.
How must this right have enhanced the veneration for religious institutions!
The gala suite being so planned that all the rooms adjoined each other, the effect of distance was further enhanced by placing the openings in line, so that on entering the suite it was possible to look down its whole length.
So far as a stranger could see, education had enhanced in them the Spanish radiance and charm, while arming these with wisdom, power, and resource.
Not long before her death Princess Alice wrote to her mother: "What a joyous childhood we had, and how greatly it was enhanced by dear sweet Papa, and by all your kindness to us!
They found her on their arrival lying on a couch in her beautiful garden, and the Bishop was struck by her likeness to Queen Victoria--a likeness enhanced by the black dress and by the form of hat which she wore.
That tragedy, as we know, was greatlyenhanced by the singular blows of fate.
The military success was not great, but the mere fact of success in this first active enterprise enhanced Jeanne's credit in the eyes of her own party.
While civil war in itself would have caused misery and ruin enough, its horrors were enhanced by the crafty policy of Henry IV.
