Literary notes about enriching (AI summary)
The term "enriching" serves as a versatile metaphor in literature, extending its reach from the tangible to the abstract. It is frequently invoked to describe physical improvements—such as enhancing soil quality or boosting agricultural output ([1], [2], [3])—while also conveying nonmaterial growth like cultural or intellectual development ([4], [5], [6]). At times, it captures the accumulation of wealth or power, as characters or institutions amass resources for personal gain ([7], [8], [9]) or for the betterment of a nation ([10], [11], [12]). Additionally, authors often use the term to reflect moral dimensions, suggesting the deep, transformative influence of experiences—whether uplifting relationships or broadening one’s worldview ([13], [14], [15]).
- Cow manure is the best to use for enriching the soil.
— from The American Flower Garden Directory Containing Practical Directions for the Culture of Plants, in the Hot-House, Garden-House, Flower Garden and Rooms or Parlours, for Every Month in the Year by Robert Buist - The seed may also be sown in corn and cotton crops, with a view to enriching the land.
— from Clovers and How to Grow Them by Thomas Shaw - CHAPTER X Trees, and How to Treat Them—Shrubs Some good plants for growing beneath trees—List of hardy shrubs—Climbers—Enriching the soil.
— from Small Gardens, and How to Make the Most of Them by Violet Purton Biddle - Roaming through the rural scenes of St. Ouen, her mind was enriching itself by observation and reflection.
— from Model Women by William Anderson - By it we are led to share vicariously in past human experience, thus widening and enriching the experience of the present.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - I do not agree with those who would dissuade you entirely from cultivating the faculty and enriching the stores of memory.
— from In the School-Room: Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by John S. (John Seely) Hart - If he ruins your majesty, it will not be without enriching himself, I answer for it."
— from The Forty-Five Guardsmen by Alexandre Dumas - It is honourable, if he have declined the means of enriching himself by the sacrifice of his independence and his principles.
— from St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by William Godwin - Mehemet Ali and his descendants have always gone on the principle of enriching themselves by monopolies of all sorts.
— from The Life of Gordon, Volume I by Demetrius Charles Boulger - It is one of its many admirable expedients for enriching the country.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - Its two great engines for enriching the country, therefore, were restraints upon importation, and encouragement to exportation.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - The trade of the East from E´gypt and Tyre passed through Sol´o-mon's dominions, enriching the land.
— from Outline Studies in the Old Testament for Bible Teachers by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut - Only lovers can generate such wealth of life that it overflows, enriching their friends, their enemies, all the world.
— from We Moderns: Enigmas and Guesses by Edwin Muir - But, apart from Christ, it was not thought of as a motive force, to be used in redeeming others’ lives and in enriching our own.
— from The Sermon on the Mount: A Practical Exposition by Charles Gore - And there is an ennobling and enriching effect of sorrow well borne.
— from The Heart of the New Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
