(used in same contexts); increase

I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub.

All the time this conversation had been going on, we had been scudding along at as brisk a pace as Mouldy's slipslop boots would permit, up the Old Bailey and by Newgate, (where my companions having inquired whether I knew at which door they brought people out to hang 'em, and received from me an intimation that I did not, kindly paused for a moment to enlighten me,) out into Ludgate Street, and across the road into turnings and twistings dingier than any I had yet met with.

Well may it sort [be fitting] that this portentous figure comes armed through our watch, so like the King that was and is the question of these wars.