Lent [adjective]

Anselme, thus enjoined, lent an unwonted alacrity to his movements, waddling grotesquely like a hastening waterfowl.

The action was at first a little confusing to Edna, but she soon lent herself readily to the Creole's gentle caress.

This stubborn resistance lent all the more lustre to the piety of our benignant Rulers.

This misfortune gave another opportunity to his detractors, and again the Emperor lent his authority to their false accusations.

He surveyed his man more closely; but the inspection lent no colour to his suspicions.

Unless they are going to have an August push in France they might at least have lent us forty-eight 4.5 hows.

They seemed to make her small feet appear smaller, and lent to her slender ankles an exaggerated frontal curve.

In 1798 he lent one hundred crowns in gold to Monegod his life-long friend.

The effort to speak in her usual tone lent to her voice a sharpness that startled herself.

The obscurity lent him courage to keep his eyes fastened as ardently as he liked upon the girl who sat in the firelight.