Lightened

Examples

• He turned here, to look about him, and his eye lightened as he did so. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Her eyes not only rained but lightened. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I therefore pleaded another engagement; and observing that Mrs. Micawber's spirits were immediately lightened, I resisted all persuasion to forego it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Her pale blue eyes lightened up as she took them, and her father spoke for her. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The women, like his own wife, who had sewed by day and night, were saved their strength and vision, and the slavery of the clothing factories, notorious in those days, was inestimably lightened. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Warehouses were lightened, ships were laden; work abounded, wages rose; the good time seemed come. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But the Tug, suddenly lightened, and untrammelled by having any weight in tow, was already puffing away into the distance. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The sleet fell all that day unceasingly, a thick mist came on early, and it never rose or lightened for a moment. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Louisa, with many thanks and with a lightened load, detained Mr. Sleary no longer then. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I did so with a lightened heart; but when we last looked back, Mr. Guppy was still oscillating in the same troubled state of mind. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Now my heart is lightened. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• My heart is lightened already since I have confided my trouble to you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• As I turned to meet my new foe it was with a heart considerably lightened. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Mr. Pickwick's eyes lightened with honest exultation at his own foresight, as he spoke thus. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I felt its whole weight now; and I drooped beneath it, and I said in my heart that it could never be lightened. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• My heart is a little lightened when we turn towards it, even for a few miles, and with the knowledge that we are soon to turn away again. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Mr. Snagsby, with much bowing and short apologetic coughing, takes his leave, lightened in heart. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Then began the rarely lightened toil of the day among the village population. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Let me be a little lightened too in her opinion as well as in yours. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Guns were lightened and bettered in shape. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The time of year lightened the evil to him. Jane Austen. Emma.
• If I have ever had a burden on my heart, it has been lightened for me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• This part of the Course was usually lightened by several single combats between Biddy and refractory students. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Margaret's face was lightened up into an honest, open brightness. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The physical state of man would soon not yield to the beatitude of angels; disease was to be banished; labour lightened of its heaviest burden. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He had that sense of peace, and of being lightened of a weight of care, which country quiet awakens in the breasts of dwellers in towns. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• My arid heart revives; my affliction is lightened; my strait and struggle are gone. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And so it was that the weight, this sorrowful time, was lightened to Margaret. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

Editor: Marilyn