" Tom was much encouraged by these wise words, and felt a strengthening of the resolve he had formed the night before.

I went out from her presence that morning morally stronger than before, and at each repetition of my visit I found her influence strengthen and increase.

Germany has finished the strengthening of her army which was decreed by the law of 1912, and, on the other hand, she feels that she cannot carry on indefinitely a race in armaments with Russia and France which would end by her ruin.

[Illustration] SOME FACTS, HOVIS Strengthens: Contains 11.13% Proteid.

The American Federation of Labor, being a federation of trade unions, kept well in view the strengthening of strictly trade organizations.

It would not mean a strengthening, but a distinct weakening, of the army, not to say a danger, if these untrained masses were at a crisis suddenly sent on active service.

The stage of the Greekswhich on account of the extent of the theatre and from the performances taking place by day made no pretension to acting properly so called, employed men to represent female characters, and absolutely required an artificial strengthening of the voice of the actorwas entirely dependent, in a scenic as well as acoustic point of view, on the use of facial and resonant masks.

If defeat strengthens and sweetens character, it is not defeat at all, but victory.

Only this could save Paristhe rapid strengthening of the Allied front by enormous reserves strong enough to hold back the arrow-shaped battering-ram of the enemy's right.