These made him great offers in order to detain him among them, and endeavored to affright him by exaggerating the dangers to which he exposed himself amidst the enemies of the Romans and Britons, who did not know God.
They appeared to appreciate as highly as anybody the comic element in themselves, and Happy John had emphasized it by deepening his natural color and exaggerating the "nigger" peculiarities.
Are we exaggeratingthis astonishing rise, development, and spread of the chrysanthemum?
Thus, my lords, I have laid before you my opinion of this bill without any partial regard, without exaggerating the ill consequences that may be feared from it, or endeavouring to elude any reasoning by which it has been defended.
A pirate never fails to intimidate his pursuers by exaggerating the number and resolution of his crew, the strength of his vessels, and the security of his retreats.
But what piqued her most was, to find details exaggerating the authority of D'Aubigny, and a statement to the effect that it was generally believed she had married him.
This was perhaps exaggerating a possibility, which, nevertheless, could not be ignored.
When you said that at table d'hôte about my exaggerating things, I let it pass, because very often it is true.
The prince then related to his father how he had been awaked, exaggerating the beauty and charms of the lady he found by his side, the instantaneous love he conceived for her, and the pains he took to awaken her without effect.
They seemed to lie in wait to find occasion for attacking him, exaggerating his weaknesses and minimising his strength.
No good can result to anybody either from belittling or exaggeratingthe productivity of the South.
He began now to talk to the people of the Admiral's deceptive and exaggeratingdescriptions intended for effect in Spain, and no doubt represented them to be at least as false as they were.
Contrarily, you must take care not to allow yourself to be misled by contradictions into exaggerating or extending a statement of your own.
Contradiction and contention irritate a man into exaggerating his statement.
I have engraved the sketch on the opposite page, adding a few details, and exaggerating the exaggerations; for in drawing from nature, even at speed, I am not in the habit of exaggerating enough to illustrate what I mean.
Cousin has a convenient method of exaggerating and aggrandizing the objects of his admiration: he degrades or depresses their surroundings.
Perhaps we instinctively fall into some contagious conformity to Lamartine's own exaggerating rhetoric in expressing ourselves as we do.
The style, in fact, is absolute perfection; you cannot tell the mere literal truth about it and not thus seem to beexaggerating its merit.
Kant's references to Berkeley, direct and indirect, now for the first time manifest a polemical tone, exaggerating in every possible way the difference between their points of view.
If vitriol had been thrown on my poor master's quivering frame, the effect could not have been more instantaneous, his ignorance of the language spoken doubtless exaggerating his impression of being ridiculed.
I am not exaggerating if I say that under these conditions your work will inevitably lead to two deplorable consequences.
There is nothing gained, be it to farmers or consumers, the Statistician adds, in suppressing truth on the one hand or exaggerating the losses on the other.
Here of course he is exaggerating the facts of the case.
Are you quite sure you're not exaggeratingthe necessity?
Madame de Maintenon, on leaving us, made quite a deep courtesy to my sister, which caused me pain, preserving an icy gravity and exaggerating her salutation and her courtesy.
The Prince de Turenne was in bad odour at Court ever since he had separated Monseigneur from his young wife by exaggerating that Princess's small failings.
Instead of studying nature, they studied Michelangelo's cartoons, exaggerating by their unintelligent discipleship his willfulness and arbitrary choice of form.
Not content withexaggerating its importance in his life, they have misinterpreted its nature.
I spoke to the masters of all of them, exaggerating considerably the injury that had been done to me.
Bonneval, somewhat exaggerating the danger I had run in trying to raise the veil of the handsome daughter of Scio.
I related the whole affair to the bishop, exaggerating the uproar, making much of the injustice of such proceedings, and railing at a vexatious police daring to molest travellers and to insult the sacred rights of individuals and nations.
