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1 Moreover, some of these minor bodies were further divided into still smaller bodies, while others became aggrandised by annexation by the stronger of neighboring weaker ones.

2 It is true, kings desirous of victory afflict many creatures, but after victory they advance and aggrandise all.

3 It is easier to ruin a kingdom and aggrandise one's own pride and prejudices than to set up a greengrocer's stall.

4 They had had experience in the past of the ambition of Russia to aggrandise herself at the expense of Japan.

5 Cinema, with its aggrandising close-ups and urging, saccharine scores, could sometimes be his worst enemy.

6 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.

7 She saw, that Montoni sought to aggrandise himself in his disposal of her, and it occurred, that his friend Cavigni was the person, for whom he was interested.

8 The whole family, while professing to be the obedient servants of the Pharaoh, nevertheless acted with a good deal of independence, and sought to aggrandise themselves at the expense of the neighbouring governors.

9 By giving a piece of earth containing mineral wealth, the giver aggrandises his family and race.

10 In point of fact, there was not one of the great Continental Powers which, during the previous fifty years, had not 'attempted to aggrandise itself by force,' and, necessarily, 'at the expense of other States.'

11 It seems incongruous that the founder of the Gestapo should be an art collector but he was building up a collection to aggrandise the Reich.

12 The Stoics identified man with God, for the purpose of glorifying man—the Neoplatonists for the purpose of aggrandising God.

13 Heredity is a strange thing, and one alternately aggrandised and slighted.

14 Was Norton a greater scoundrel even than he had given him the credit of being, and was this some new plot for aggrandising himself at the weak husband’s expense?

15 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.

16 That land is blest whose people are happy; that State is aggrandised whence there arise songs praising God for His blessings.

17 The whole story is a remarkable instance of what can be done by poetry and popularity towards misrepresenting and aggrandising a petty though striking adventure.

18 It has been said that he aggrandised Piedmont; it would be truer to say that he sacrificed it.

19 He took care to give his friends from the Highlands a magnificent notion of his great personal consequence, which, of course, they aggrandised when they returned to the hills.

20 She attenuated him without his knowing it, for what he mainly thought was that he had aggrandised HER.

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3 使…的地位扩大起来

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10 的权力强大起来

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