Magnified

Examples

• It only looked like a considerably magnified bedstead--nothing more. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• His lamp was pronounced a fake, a myth, possibly a momentary success magnified to the dignity of a permanent device by an overenthusiastic inventor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The image, magnified by the lenses of the electric lamp, could thus be distinctly seen without being too brilliant to dazzle the eyes. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• In the compound two or more lenses are so arranged that the image formed by one is magnified by the others, and viewed as if it were the object itself. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Every sound she magnified into the stealthy creeping of a sinuous and malignant body. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• In this process of transmission there is a certain loss of light, and to allow for that the image is magnified to about one-quarter above natural size. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The disc of the full moon, however highly magnified, presents, as is well-known, the appearance of a flat surface, with the lights and shadows marked seemingly on a plane. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The copperhead disreputable portion of the press magnified rebel successes, and belittled those of the Union army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Fig. 7 shows a magnified section of a regularly loaded tube which has been sawed lengthwise. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Time magnified the splendour of those recollections in the honest clerk's bosom. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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