Being anxious to do credit to his family, of whom he was secretly a little ashamed about this time, he spent money on his clothes, conscious that he was a comely youth with a great love of beauty, and a longing for all that cultivates and embellishes character and life.
"Spinning-Wheel Stories"
Louisa May Alcott
He at once receives that hearty admiration which youth and age alike bestow on a man who so forcibly illustrates and embellishes manhood.
"See America First"
Orville O. Hiestand
An extreme example of this is Dryden's fatuous reference to the Earl of Mulgrave's translation of Ovid: How will sweet Ovid's ghost be pleased to hear His fame augmented by an English peer, How he embellishes his Helen's loves, Outdoes his softness, and his sense improves.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos