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• The new administration's brief, which is due Feb. 20, has the potential to hearten or infuriate Mr. Obama's supporters, many of whom are looking to him for stark disavowals of the Bush administration's legal positions on the detention and interrogation of so-called enemy combatants held at Navy facilities on the American mainland or at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
• They were marked by the embargo, the crippling of our commerce by the hostility of England and France, and the second war with Great Britain, in all of which there was much to dis-hearten a beginner, even if he escaped positive loss. —  Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made
• And it wa'n't any use, your father bein' dead and gone The Bishop took up the burden, slapping him cordially on the back Come, come,--hearten up, now! —  The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West
• There is only one thing that I can do for France--hearten her soldiers for battle and victory." —  Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1
• But she never lost her courage, and Gibbie, though he could not hearten her with words, was so ready with smile and laugh, was so cheerful--even merry, so fearless, so free from doubt and anxiety, while doing everything he could think of to lessen her toil and pain, that she hardly felt in his silence any lack; while often, to rest her body, and withdraw her mind from her sufferings, he made her stop and look back on the strange scene behind them. —  Sir Gibbie

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