"The first contains about twenty-five gallons of water, to which I add a few drops of sulphuric acid, so as to
augment its capacity as a conductor of electricity, and then I decompose it by means of a powerful Buntzen battery.
The vast white headless phantom floats further and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats, what seem square roods of sharks and cubic roods of fowls,
augment the murderous din.
This is called, using the conquered foe to
augment one's own strength.
Now Rokoff seized one of the paddles lying in the bottom of the craft, and, with terrorwide eyes still glued upon the living death that pursued him, struck out madly in an effort to
augment the speed of the unwieldy canoe.
It is the malicious pleasure of the East Wind to
augment the power of your eyesight, in order, perhaps, that you should see better the perfect humiliation, the hopeless character of your captivity.
No small number of these whaling seamen belong to the Azores, where the outward bound Nantucket whalers frequently touch to
augment their crews from the hardy peasants of those rocky shores.
But, she uttered no sound; and so strong was the voice within her, representing that it was she of all the world who must uphold him in his misery and not
augment it, that it quickly raised her, even from that shock.
Within three years a census is to be taken, when the number may be
augmented to one for every thirty thousand inhabitants; and within every successive period of ten years the census is to be renewed, and augmentations may continue to be made under the above limitation.
As the hour of two approached the friends began to arrive and after offering such consolation to the stricken relatives as the proprieties of the occasion required, solemnly seated themselves about the room with an
augmented consciousness of their importance in the scheme funereal.
But it was
augmented and rendered sublime by the mighty Alps, whose white and shining pyramids and domes towered above all, as belonging to another earth, the habitations of another race of beings.
In this way the trade
augmented, and was drawn from remote quarters to Montreal.
There were many men among these, and so the fighting strength of the party was
augmented.