sharpened

Anne drew a long breath of happiness as she sharpened her pencil and arranged her picture cards in her desk.

But she never sharpened the latter on Anne, who continued to be a prime favorite with the critical old lady.

Bennet, whose dislike of his general behaviour was sharpened into particular resentment by his having slighted one of her daughters.

This part of his intelligence, though unheard by Lydia, was caught by Elizabeth; and, as it assured her that Darcy was not less answerable for Wickham’s absence than if her first surmise had been just, every feeling of displeasure against the former was so sharpened by immediate disappointment, that she could hardly reply with tolerable civility to the polite inquiries which he directly afterwards approached to make.