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He had spent the first half of third grade under the tutelage of a teacher named Mr. Carbine, who had leavened the civics lessons with fun facts about presidents.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

Only a very select few were "in the know" of what that eighth round had been planned to develop, yet they somehow had leavened the whole audience with anticipation, by an indefinite word or two.

From Winner Take All by Evans, Larry

The Parliament, shortly after it had met in May 1789, began to show, in the Commons part of it, the working of that great theory which had leavened all France for a generation.

From The French Revolution by Belloc, Hilaire

I remembered him extremely well as one of those representatives of the people with whom a paternal Government had leavened the effete ranks of the Irish magistracy.

From Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Ross, Martin

But though, after Buddhism had leavened India for a few centuries, we no longer find the religious world given over to sacrificing as it had been about 600 B.C., these rites did not die out.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir