Elevating

Examples

• Notwithstanding these foibles, and various others needless to mention--but by no means of a refined or elevating character--how pretty she was! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• We must set our face against all this educating, elevating talk, that is getting about now; the lower class must not be educated. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The pointer uses both hands in elevating and depressing the gun. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• And here I am naturally led to reflect on the means of elevating a low subject. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The neighbourhood was a little too hot, Lively,' said Fagin, elevating his eyebrows, and crossing his hands upon his shoulders. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Their melancholy is soothing, and their joy elevating to a degree I never experienced in studying the authors of any other country. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• That's right,' said Mr. John Smauker, putting forth his fox's head, and elevating his own; 'I'll stand by you. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The operation of elevating it began on the 9th of August, and it has now reached nearly the level of the first one, the tube being raised six feet in a week. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The first example is said to have been produced by Elisha Graves Otis, who applied steam power to an elevating machine in a little shop at Yonkers, on the banks of the Hudson, New York. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I am almost nineteen, madam, said I, elevating my head, with much pride. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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