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Each acted as a foil and heightener to the beauty of the other.

From A Life For a Love A Novel by Meade, L. T.

She had been fifty-four years the delight of my father's heart, the sweetener of all his toils, the comforter of all his sorrows, the sharer and heightener of all his joys.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I by Lodge, Henry Cabot

Still further, we have here a symbol of Christ's glory as the ennobler and heightener of all earthly joys.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Maclaren, Alexander