One enjoyment was certain—that of suitableness as companions; a suitableness which comprehended health and temper to bear inconveniences—cheerfulness to enhance every pleasure—and affection and intelligence, which might supply it among themselves if there were disappointments abroad.
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Even the boisterous winds unanimously came forth from their mystic homes, and blustered about as if to enhance by their aid the wildness of the scene.
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
But the smile did not enhance Véra’s beauty as smiles generally do; on the contrary it gave her an unnatural, and therefore unpleasant, expression.
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
You needed some sort of distinction in the Twins, else they were liable to forget you were alive, but a reputation as the biggest drinker in the castle had done little to enhance his prospects, he’d found.
George R. R. Martin
A Storm of Swords
Cocaine does not enhance the appetite, and neither does terror.
King, Stephen
The Stand
.”“I won’t say a word, sir,” said Riddle, and he left, but not before Harry had glimpsed his face, which was full of that same wild happiness it had worn when he had first found out that he was a wizard, the sort of happiness that did not enhance his handsome features, but made them, somehow, less human. . . .
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
When, as I opine, in the course of time, the true nature of spermaceti became known, its original name was still retained by the dealers; no doubt to enhance its value by a notion so strangely significant of its scarcity.
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
The very circumstances which inflict on you, as a principal in the tragic scene enacted here, such painful emotions, are to me, on the contrary, a source of something like contentment, and serve but to enhance the value of this dwelling in my estimation.
Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
At the same time it would enormously enhance, what Archbishop Laud so rightly insisted on, the ‘beauty of holiness’ in the few incorrigibles who could not be deterred.” “In hell, it seems,” said Priscilla, reading in her Sunday paper, “the children amuse themselves by flaying lambs alive.” “Ah, but, dear lady, that’s only a symbol,” exclaimed Mr. Barbecue-Smith, “a material symbol of a h-piritual truth.
Aldous Huxley
Crome Yellow
It will actually enhance their sense of duty.
Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash
Yet the craving for solitude seemed part of the delusion of self-sufficiency, a factitious making-rare of the person to enhance its strangeness in its own estimation.
T. E. Lawrence
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
We will also explain archaic or unusual words and names in The Lord of the Rings, explore literary and historical influences, note connections with Tolkien’s other writings, and comment on differences between its drafts and published form, on questions of language, and on much else that we hope will interest readers and enhance their enjoyment of Tolkien’s masterpiece.
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring
Besides, fellow ought to support the home team.” He did go and support the team, and enhance the glory of Zenith, by yelling “Attaboy!” and “Rotten!” He performed the rite scrupulously.
Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt
Doubtful he stood, if instant to embrace His aged limbs, to kiss his reverend face, With eager transport to disclose the whole, And pour at once the torrent of his soul.— Not so: his judgment takes the winding way Of question distant, and of soft essay; More gentle methods on weak age employs: And moves the sorrows to enhance the joys.
Homer
The Odyssey
He had deserted her for other women, and this sentimental celebrity did not fail to enhance his artistic reputation.
Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
I slurp my coffee as we travel, finding that the cream and sugar greatly enhance its flavor.
Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay
The long time and the great expense which must be laid out in their education, when combined with this circumstance, necessarily enhance still further the price of their labour.
Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations