It has been, indeed, sometimes the custom of the Roman Church to enhance the value of a gift of relics by adding to it the gift of the inscription on the grave from which they were taken.

Besides the common Douglas Oak and the grand Quercus Wislizeni of the foot-hills, and several small ones that make dense growths of chaparral, there are two mountain-oaks that grow with the pines up to an elevation of about 5000 feet above the sea, and greatly enhance the beauty of the yosemite parks.

The quantity of light reflected from the bent needles was so great as to make whole groves appear as if covered with snow, while the black shadows beneath the trees greatly enhanced the effect of the silvery splendor.

You are the first to gain by this deceit, for we can not multiply obstacles without enhancing the price of your victory.

On the other hand, he was no mere soldier of fortune, and the moderation which he showed after victory enhanced his reputation as a general.

All poets, and authors in general, avail themselves of their reading and knowledge to enhance the interest of their works.

By what caprice of evil fortune had she come to this, hiring out her voice and her nimble feet to enhance the pleasure of a chance entertainment, far from her own people and from her northern Indian home?

I afterwards visited this place over and over again, and every succeeding visit added to my admiration and enhanced its attractions.

At that time a gentleman of position usually sought to enhance the family dignity by a seat in Parliament.

"Lavengro," written in 1851, enhanced the fame which Borrow had already secured by his earlier works.

Heine and Schreiber not only comment upon her physical beauty, they also tell us how she enhanced her natural charms by zealously attending to her hair and her jewelry and religiously guarding the color scheme in so doing.

When our natural observation is assisted by the accurate results ascertained by the light of science, how infinitely does it enhance our delight in contemplating the products of nature!

All three writers describe the love of the soul for God in the terms of passionate human love: Crashaw with an ardour which has never been surpassed, Herbert with a homely intimacy quite peculiar to him, and Christopher Harvey with a point and epigrammatic setting which serve only to enhance the deep feeling of the thought.

The farmer who undertakes to cultivate unreclaimed land in new countries, generally finds that not only does every step of advance which he makes in the wilderness, by removing him from the centres of trade and civilisation, enhance the cost of all he has to purchase, but that, moreover, it diminishes the value of what he has to sell.

The Southern States wished to impose a restraint on the Northern, by requiring that two-thirds in Congress should be requisite to pass an act in regulation of commerce: they were apprehensive that the restraints of a navigation law would discourage foreigners, and by obliging them to employ the shipping of the Northern States would probably enhance their freight.

Circumstances to which she contributed only indirectly enhanced her popularity and weakened the effects of the mistress's hostility.

Draw upon these resources and you will find yourself gradually living and working upon a higher plane of efficiency, improving the quality of your work, increasing the quantity of your work and enhancing your enjoyment in work.

This point is made in order that individual men may fill up the Territories with slaves, without danger of losing them as property, and thus to enhance the chances of permanency to the institution through all the future.

I made that forecast before ever I passed Sandy Hook, but my recent visit only enhanced my sense of growth and "go" in things American.

To enhance the solemnity of the occasion.

Thus have flatterers seized the most surprising natural effects to enhance their hero's glory, and make their court to great men.

"At least, that they are such, rarely enhances our opinion, either of their abilities or of their virtues.

Do thou, therefore, O Vrihannala, cease to advance!' "Vrihannala said, 'Why dost thou look so pale through fear and enhance the joy of thy foes?

From living almost exclusively on acorns and nuts, his flesh is held in great esteem, and in Westphalia his legs are made into hams by a process which, it is said, enhances the flavour and quality of the meat in a remarkable degree.

This type of writer is born to please the public, for he does not see faults in men, and enhances their small merits, so that even those who see through him are grateful.