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
Buoyed up by these sanguine expectations, Douglas undertook a tour through New England, not to make stump speeches, he declared, but to visit and enhearten his followers.
From Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics by Allen Johnson
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 Arnold Bennett
But he still had his letter in his pocket, and in time that served to enhearten him.
From Clementina by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
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 Louis Joseph Vance
