Encourage

Examples

• It is not as you think, that I have another in my mind, for I do not encourage anybody, and never have in my life. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It has been involuntary, and I will not encourage it. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• To encourage tillage, by keeping up the price of corn, even in the most plentiful years, was the avowed end of the institution. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I can't encourage it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Encourage the people by your presence. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• No more would Emmy by any means encourage her admirer, the Major. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But as life means nothing to me, without one thing which is now impossible, you will forgive me for not being able to encourage you. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Topsy had an uncommon verbal memory, and committed with a fluency that greatly encouraged her instructress. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I encouraged Doctor Manette in this idea, because I felt that it might one day be consolatory to her. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Encouraged by these disasters of the imperial power, the Ionian cities in Asia began for a second time to revolt against the Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• General Taylor encouraged officers to accompany these expeditions. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We were always encouraged to read, and had all the masters that were necessary. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• He would save himself from witnessing again such permitted, encouraged attentions. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He professed himself more relieved and encouraged than he really was, and approached his second and last point. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It is he who encourages me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• St. Clare, I believe, encourages her in it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Mr Wrayburn encourages those notions to make himself of importance, and so she thinks she ought to be grateful to him, and perhaps even likes to be. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It neither encourages nor discourages improvement. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• What has happened in the schoolroom encourages me to persevere in the investigation. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But still it really, and in the end, encourages that species of industry which it means to promote. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is chiefly by encouraging the manufactures of Europe, that the colony trade indirectly encourages its agriculture. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is encouraging people to marry if you make so much of them. Jane Austen. Emma.
• As regards its quantity and quality, the accounts are most encouraging. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Our out-of-door life easily threw one in my way, and I delicately said that there was a responsibility in encouraging Richard. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Miss Price, will not you join me in encouraging your cousin? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The nondescript replied in encouraging terms, and brought him to a coffee-shop in the street within a stone's throw. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It was clear what the end would be, since Mary openly placed Farebrother above everybody, and these women were all evidently encouraging the affair. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was impossible to make the confession more dispassionately, or in a tone less encouraging to the vanity of the person addressed. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.

Edited by Jeremy