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

This is the first consideration that should nerve and enhearten us; but there is a second and most important one to which God would direct our attention, namely, the natural limitations of the adversary himself.

From The Warfare of the Soul Practical Studies in the Life of Temptation by Hughson, Shirley C.

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

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

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 Johnson, Allen