enhearten

Example Sentences

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But the victory did little to enhearten the captains.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Now she would have someone to enhearten and befriend her.

From The Four Corners of the World by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

A card on the trunk of a tree, announcing curtly, "Dogs not allowed," seemed to enhearten him.

From Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days by Bennett, Arnold

But he still had his letter in his pocket, and in time that served to enhearten him.

From Clementina by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

Ember went darkly about his various businesses, taciturn—even a trace more than ever reserved in his communication with Whitaker—preoccupied, but constant in his endeavour to enhearten the desponding husband.

From The Destroying Angel by Vance, Louis Joseph