My riches being now considerable, I turned my attention to the little house of Auchencairn, which I enlarged and beautified, so that if we have the wish we may take up our dwelling there.

The mighty Posets, the Pic d'Arbizon, and the other snow-crowned heights, softened by distance and beautified by the tints in the foreground, stood out against the azure sky in all their splendour.

and she pointed a slender hand, beautified by exquisitely kept nails, toward the gorgeous sky picture.

He approved of athletic exercises, which strengthened and beautified the body; but he would not defile the body or weaken it, either by lusts or austerities.

The fresh air was exhilarating, the birds were singing, and the woods were already beautified with every shade of glossy green, enlivened by vivid buds and leaflets of reddish brown.

Because Shakespeare had never attended a university, Greene called him "an upstart Crow beautified with our feathers.

In 1592 Robert Greene, a London poet, dramatist, and hack-writer, wrote: "There is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tyger's heart wrapped in a Player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Iohannes fac-totum, is in his owne conceit the only Shake-scene in a countrie.

He much beautified with new buildings Eltham mannor nere vnto Greenwich, and the castle Somaridune in the county of Lindsey.

Adj. ornamented, beautified &c v.; ornate, rich, gilt, begilt^, tesselated, festooned; champleve [Fr.], cloisonne, topiary.

In those days Fellside House was a very different kind of dwelling from the gracious modern Tudor mansion which now crowned and beautified the hill-side above Grasmere Lake.

But for all that she beautified his life, so often joyless, by the tenderness which she awoke in him; and the woman who throughout twenty years could do that, deserved well of the man whose friend she was; and she earns our consideration and sympathy besides.

Now with regard to these archways, if no purposes of convenience were to be served by them, the Park would not, we may admit, be beautified by them.

That year was a fitting time for the building of "those haunts of ancient peace" that have ever since beautified the villages of rural England.

My dreams were beautified with waxen images of immense size, whose china blue eyes, long flaxen curls, and rosy cheeks, presented a combination of charms that took my heart by storm.

3 Taste spreads, her refinements around, Enriching her favourite Land With prospects of beautified ground, Where, cinctur'd, the spruce Villas stand; On the causeways, that never are foul, Marshal'd bands may with measur'd pace tread; The soft Car of Voluptuousness roll, And the proud Steed of Greatness parade.

Many, already, are beautified with flowers and shrubbery; and in some, already arises the marble slab, pointing to the place where some weary pilgrim reposes, free from all the earth calls good or great; for this, too, is enclosed in the Cemetery.

CAMDEN'S "BRITANNIA" BRITAIN: or a chorographical description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland and Ireland, and the Ilands adioyning; out of the depth of Antiquitie: beautified with Mappes of the severall Shires of England; Written first in Latine by William Camden, Clarenceux K. of A. Translated newly into English by Philémon Holland.

They beautified everything.

The Banks on each Side are as well peopled, and beautified with as agreeable Plantations, as any Spot on the Earth; but the Thames it self, loaded with the Product of each Shore, added very much to the Landskip.

His father had been a surgeon in the army, and was now in the pay of the Duke of Würtemberg; and the benevolence, integrity and devoutness of his parents were expanded and beautified in the character of their son.

Little spiral rods of iron beautified each of the seven peaks.

And without there is life and activity: the world goes on in its old course; generations change in the old houses; the houses changeyet Stockholm is always the heart of Sweden, Birger's city, whose features are continually renewed, continually beautified.

Is there a flower, to which he points with hand 245 Too weak to gather it, already love Drawn from love's purest earthly fount for him Hath beautified that flower; already shades Of pity cast from inward tenderness Do fall around him upon aught that bears 250 Unsightly marks of violence or harm.

Among the simple shapes of human life A wilfulness of fancy and conceit; [e] And Nature and her objects beautified These fictions, as in some sort, in their turn, 375 They burnished her.

Let them carp as they will, he holds, as few poets have done, the hearts of men and women; still more he holds the hearts of children, and the life of multitudes continues to be softened and beautified by the gentle power of what he has written.