It is this last feature which leavens the whole system in the eyes of the million; that is to say, because a mother is seen giving up her child here it does not follow that it is illegitimate.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
It is here that you will find the concentrated essence of British tenacity and stolidity-the leaven that leavens the whole."
"The Last Hope"
Henry Seton Merriman
It will be perceived that Oswald Melvin had all the aggressive independence of Young Australia without the virility which leavens the truer type.
"Stingaree"
E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung