To aggrandise his own name, he had covered Europe with blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference

He only wanted to aggrandise and enrich himself; and if Miss Woodhouse of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emma] Reference

Thou shouldst, to the best of thy power, aggrandise him as thou winnest aggrandisement for thyself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

The only imperative for the EU is to aggrandise as much power as it can as rapidly and secretly as it can.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unfit for Human Consumption] Reference

She saw, that Montoni sought to aggrandise himself in his disposal of her, and it occurred, that his friend.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of Udolpho] Reference

It is true, kings desirous of victory afflict many creatures, but after victory they advance and aggrandise all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

Build up and aggrandise your city, for in so doing you will gird on power like a garment, and win allies for her. 209.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiero] Reference

Here Olberman told the truth, and did not aggrandise himself in the process, indeed saying that ESPN were right to fire him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » President Bush is “ticked off big-time”] Reference

I'm sure every creative innovator has moments of terrible self doubt says she, attempting to aggrandise a very unimportant issue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

In the former cases he has never failed to make a joke about "no heckling" and self aggrandise about his armed Special Branch officers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-10] Reference

They who seek to aggrandise their fortunes by afflicting kingdoms in unscrupulous ways, very soon come to be regarded as vermin in a dead body.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

The great problem of his day was to aggrandise his own people and prevent an insurrection of the Israelites; and that small kingdom of Egypt had been his universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference

Elector, anxious also to aggrandise himself in Polish Prussia, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Holland] Reference

Châteauneuf would soon manage all the rest and aggrandise his position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference

"It's difficult to understand why someone would aggrandise what has happened," the.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Nine News] Reference

Lewis could not but dread whatever tended to aggrandise a state governed by William.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5] Reference

He had said, and even sworn, that he would never aggrandise the territory of the Empire!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 11] Reference

He began his pontificate in splendour in 1775, and set to work at once to aggrandise his family, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc] Reference

That to aggrandise their Master, as a worker of miracles, was the deign especially of the three first.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Vindication of Three of Our Blessed Saviour���s Miracles: viz. The Raising of Jairus���s daughter, The Widow of Naim���s son, and Lazarus.] Reference

Trying to make generalisations about physics that are false to self-aggrandise is fairly self-defeating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cracked: All Posts] Reference

By degrees he came to be looked upon as a person likely, not only to support, but to aggrandise his family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Passages from the History of the Chomley Family] Reference

Mr. Douglas, though a Northern man, did his best until 1858 to aggrandise the latter and overwhelm the former.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Statesman] Reference

Show and grandeur, pomp and vanity, revelling and folly -- all to show thee, to aggrandise thee, to delight thee.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers] Reference

Build up and aggrandise your city, for in so doing you will gird on power like a garment, and win allies for her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiero] Reference

Imlac now felt the enthusiastic fit, and was proceeding to aggrandise his own profession, when then Prince cried out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia] Reference

Duchess of Gordon kept in view the main chance, and resolved from her early youth to aggrandise the family into which she had entered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire] Reference

Mr.. Wimbush, for I didn't want to be taunted by her with desiring to aggrandise myself by a public connexion with Mr. Paraday's sweepings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death of the Lion] Reference

In his address, Lord Hoffmann gave examples of the Strasbourg court being "unable to resist the temptation to aggrandise its jurisdiction".    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

The one thing Palin seems to know how to do is use the media's infatuation with celebrity, hotness and women's bodies to aggrandise herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

No! she will be wise enough to answer that passion alone that can aggrandise her glory; no doubt she will, and despise the puppet of her fancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Caliph Vathek] Reference

No man, however, can pay a more servile tribute to the great, than by suffering his liberty in their presence to aggrandise him in his own esteem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1] Reference

More devoted than the pelican, she would have given her heart's blood -- had given all her life -- not only to nurture, but to aggrandise her child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Anna] Reference

We must, however, despair of nothing, but remember that the human race is yet young, and that only after a long series of years can the senses aggrandise their domain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

It was impossible for the duke to aggrandise himself unless the states of Italy were thrown into confusion so that he might safely make himself master of some part of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics] Reference

Even if the answers lie somewhere in between, we should take care not to aggrandise the motives of a series to the extent that we make it something it was never meant to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comments for Azure Flame] Reference

It was all a scandalous story put about by that young Dr. Carr (whom I’m sure I never liked) simply to aggrandise himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unnatural Death]