The air was much better than in Barker's Court, and altogether it was a more Humanizing kind of living.
"In Wild Rose Time"
Amanda M. Douglas
It seemed to him like the breathing of warm new life into what had been a crystallized emotion-the Humanizing of something spiritual.
"The New Tenant"
E. Phillips Oppenheim
As in boyhood it is the Humanizing influence that tempers the fierce and unruly passions of our nature, so in manhood it forms the goal to which all our better and higher aspirations tend, telling us there is something more worthy than gold, and a more lofty pinnacle of ambition than the praise and envy of our fellow-men; and we may rest assured, that when this feeling dies within us, that all the ideal of life dies with it, and nothing remains save the dull reality of our daily cares and occupations.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)