What is "hearten"

Usage examples of "hearten".

Much about the state of things, much that Adams had seen or heard since his return, was heartening.

In one of the most dramatic and heartening actions, much of which is still secret, Beaumont threw his small force of destroyers against a heavily defended German base on the coast of Norway.

It was a heartening triumph for all true Cairenes, naturally, and a banner day for Egyptian nationalism.

Even when Pukpuk, conscience-stricken at having been the instrument of his betrayal and downfall, took to dropping in with little presents of fresh catnip and, when they could be discreetly whispered, words of affection and concern from Lali, he was in no way heartened.

Their guide, heartened by the good audience response, points out more funny trees - the dynamite tree, Hura crepitans, whose fruit explodes when it is ripe, and the very rare Cecropia of South America, the sloth tree, indeed the only mature Cecropia palmata in the United States, whose leaves have the texture of chamois skin and never disintegrate.

Below him he could see the activity in the camp around the Tel: the men racing for their horses, the women with their children gathered outside their tents, waving their outstretched hands in the air, their shrill voices raised in an eerie war chant to hearten their men.

The longer the siege dragged on, the more it would hearten other recalcitrants, like Tytos Blackwood.

Heartened by the large vote of 1892 the Populist leaders prepared to drive the wedge further into the old parties and even hoped to send their candidates through the breach to Congress and the presidency.

Christina went on duty feeling extremely self- conscious and then was considerably heartened by a visit from Beryl, come to borrow some catheters, who declared that she looked quite super and on no account was she ever to go back to her old ways.

The flanks of this tiny force had to extend to half a mile to hold off the Boer flank attack, but they were heartened in their resistance by the knowledge that their comrades were hastening to their assistance.

He kept telling them to put their cannon between the regiments, so that the gunners could slant their fire across the face of the infantry, but Indian commanders reckoned that the sight of guns directly in front heartened their men.

Kelsie was so heartened by the success of her desperate hope that she turned to claw again at the pillar behind her, striving to free more such useful bits of rock.

But the very fact that it was able to project so much now heartened her.

Jonathan and been heartened when his reaction had been thoughtful rather than negative.

The trip had exhausted them all, but the sight of Jador heartened them.