Enlarged

Examples

• These pictures are so perfect in detail that, when photographed and enlarged, objects no greater than a blade of grass may be distinctly recognized. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• A private-line department was established, and the business taken over from Pope, Edison, and Ashley was rapidly enlarged. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In the year 1600, Gilbert, an English physician, enlarged considerably the catalogue of substances which have the property of attracting light bodies. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Slowly, therefore, and in a quiet tone of voice, he explained them as best he could, and enlarged on the nature of Pancks's service. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I enlarged upon many other topics, which the natural desire of endless life, and sublunary happiness, could easily furnish me with. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• By means of a lens, a watchmaker gets an enlarged image of the dust which clogs the wheels of his watch. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The scene enlarged; two persons appeared; Mrs. Weston and her son-in-law; they were walking into Highbury;to Hartfield of course. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Soon he had a still better one, which enlarged four hundred times. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• But as their social uses have increased and enlarged, their liberalizing or intellectual value and their practical value approach the same limit. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It denotes an enlarged, an intensified prizing, not merely a prizing, much less--like depreciation--a lowered and degraded prizing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Let a convex lens be placed near a candle (Fig. 75); move a paper screen back and forth behind the lens; for some position of the screen a clear, enlarged image of the candle will be made. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• When a house is rebuilt, improved, or enlarged, there is a new valuation, and the tax is rated accordingly. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The mist over the lake below had stealthily enlarged, and advanced on us. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The slit forming slide is seen on the far end of the tube A, and is shown in enlarged detached view on the right. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But experience has enlarged our knowledge of differences. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Still the exercise of the faculty of abstraction apart from facts has enlarged the mind, and played a great part in the education of the human race. Plato. The Republic.
• The letters _a_, _b_, _c_, _d_ mark the outside; the aperture, at _c d_, being enlarged to permit several persons to look into it at the same time. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Again, as Newton had widened man's conception of space, so Hutton (and Buffon) enlarged his conception of time. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He has scarcely tasted sweet air yet and the great freedoms of the world that science has enlarged for him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Furnaces were enlarged to colossal dimensions, some being a hundred feet high and capable of yielding 80 or 100 tons of metal per day. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• For six years he was engaged, as engineer, in the construction of the Somerset Coal Canal, where he enlarged and turned to pract ical account his knowledge of strata. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• A hole bored may be readily enlarged by a round file. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• When needed for any particular purpose, such finger-prints are usually enlarged by means of a special camera, to five times their natural size. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• My father had a small factory at Coventry, which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• This surely is a constructive plan which might well be enlarged from mere protection to positive hospitality. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The electromagnets and other actuating mechanism cannot be seen plainly in this figure, but are produced diagrammatically in Fig. 2, and somewhat enlarged for convenience of explanation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The coiled pipe C is in the nature of a flattened tube, as shown in the enlarged cross section, and is enclosed in a case. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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