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.

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.

(used in same contexts); increase

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