Heightened

Examples

• I perceive, sir, said Pitt with a heightened voice, that your people will cut down the timber. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You take an eager interest in that gentleman's concerns, said Darcy, in a less tranquil tone, and with a heightened colour. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Sir James interpreted the heightened color in the way most gratifying to himself, and thought he never saw Miss Brooke looking so handsome. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But he was now married; and she condemned her heart for the lurking flattery, which so much heightened the pain of the intelligence. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The sensation is heightened as the tidings spread from mouth to mouth that the beadle is on the ground and has gone in. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This portable Diorama can be most conveniently shown by lamplight, the flame of an argand lamp, the wick of which can be heightened and lowered, being best adapted for the purpose. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Emma's colour was heightened by this unjust praise; and with a smile, and shake of the head, which spoke much, she looked at Mr. Knightley. Jane Austen. Emma.
• In his gaze on her bright face there was no servility, hardly homage; but there were interest and affection, heightened by another feeling. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Pitt, with rather a heightened colour, went up and shook his brother by the hand, and saluted Rebecca with a hand-shake and a very low bow. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But this stupendous fragmentariness heightened the dreamlike strangeness of her bridal life. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But the vision of the new statecraft in centering politics upon human interests becomes a creator of opportunities instead of a censor of morals, and deserves a fresh and heightened regard. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The satire on existing governments is heightened by the simple and apparently incidental manner in which the last remark is introduced. Plato. The Republic.
• They were there received by Mrs Wilfer in person, whose dignity on this, as on most special occasions, was heightened by a mysterious toothache. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The artist had shrewdly heightened the delusion by painting dust on the creatures' backs, as if it had fallen there naturally and properly. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This rendered confidences with Fanny doubly precious to Little Dorrit, and heightened the relief they afforded her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• His interest in its recovery seemed to me to be much heightened when he heard that it had stockings on. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• My sister's heightened colour and sparkling eyes half revealed her secret to me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This particular bit of acting was heightened by the fact that even in the coldest weather he wears thin summer clothes, generally acid-worn and more or less disreputable. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Exercise had given a brilliant hue to her cheeks, and heightened the effect of her singularly transparent skin, and golden hair. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It at once excited great attention, which was heightened by the pictures produced by the new process. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• How expressive that heightened colour in her face, that fluttered manner, her downcast eyes, her irresolute happiness! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

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