aggrandisements

With my brother's fortune I made aggrandisements and eventually moved to the Rue de la Paix.

Read-Aloud Plays Horace Holley

Nor can the psychological effect of these great aggrandisements of capital in the hands of a few banks be ignored.

War-Time Financial Problems Hartley Withers 1908

She dreaded his having made ready in secret a great pageant in her honour, for she was afraid of all aggrandisements, and thought still it had been better that she had remained his sweet friend ever and not the

The Fifth Queen Crowned Ford Madox Ford 1906

Hertford's son to an earldom, together with similar aggrandisements to other great servants of the Crown, the Council had resolved to hold a sitting on the 16th of February for the delivering and confirming of these honours, and that meantime, the late King not having granted, in writing, estates suitable to the support of these dignities, the Council, knowing his private wishes in that regard, had thought proper to grant to

The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain 1872

Hertford's son to an earldom, together with similar aggrandisements to other great servants of the Crown, the Council had resolved to hold a sitting on the 16th of February for the delivering and confirming of these honours, and that meantime, the late King not having granted, in writing, estates suitable to the support of these dignities, the Council, knowing his private wishes in that regard, had thought proper to grant to

The Prince and the Pauper, Part 4. Mark Twain 1872