leavening

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**Leavening of St. Rupert, The. — The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
The Dutch historians are disposed to regard Labadie's chief work the leavening of the old lump by the many hundreds of his converts inspired with his evangelical zeal, who remained in connection with the Reformed Church. — Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680, Jasper Danckaerts
His numerous admirers, whose affection for him was founded on their enjoyment of his ponderous witticisms and the humour which was the little leavening of their unexciting lives, had once or twice during the past few days found themselves unprepared for, and so somewhat bewildered by, the new mood which had now and then revealed itself. — In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim, Frances Hodgson Burnett

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