Then I was annoyed at myself because my mind had seized upon such a petty factor as a question of supper to magnify into importance.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford
The conventions of the constitution could not exist without respect for precedent, and where the institutions and liberties of a country depend not upon a written code, but upon custom, there is a natural tendency to magnify the importance of tradition and precedent in themselves.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
Teacher and student are alike urged to magnify the observational side of the subject and to strive to obtain in their work the maximum degree of precision of which their apparatus is capable.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock