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For over thirty years, Mr. Plaschke’s stories have edified the biggest stars in the Los Angeles sports world.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2020

The camp that night was a grand debating society, every man propounding a theory of strategy that would have edified General McDowell, no doubt, if he could have been given a précis of the whole.

From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis)

And where are the stories better calculated to interest a child than these same old stories, that have edified a hundred generations?

From The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church by Rhodes, M. (Mosheim)

However, it so happens, that our ablest brethren, in their elaborate disquisitions upon this subject, have written with so much caution, that ignorant unbelievers have edified very little by them.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Swift, Jonathan

But I behaved with a restraint and reserve which would have edified Monsieur Faisand�.

From Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 by Kock, Charles Paul de