As she sat there, watching the slow, slow lightening in the east, Bessie wondered if the day was ever coming.

He had opened a local paper and was reading it intently, and presently he looked up with an eager flush on his face and a sudden lightening of the dull eyes.

Visions of the ship failing to return to New Zealand and of sixty people waiting here arose in my mind with sickening pertinacity, and the only consolation I could draw from such imaginations was the determination that the southern work should go on as beforemeanwhile the least ill possible seemed to be an extensive lightening of the ship with boats as the tide was evidently high when she strucka terribly depressing prospect.

A faint lightening of the murky sky heralded the approach of dawn, and from afar came the murmur of commencing traffic out in High Street.

The moon floated higher and higher as the night grew old and at length there was a dim lightening in the east which foretold dawn, but Marianne kept on.

He taught her coon-can, two-handed whist and Chinese solitaire before a gray lightening outside proclaimed that the night was over.

Isaac greeted her with a nod and slight lightening of the eyes, which, however, hardly disturbed the habitual sombreness of the face.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored, He has loosed the fateful lightening of His terrible swift sword His truth is marching on.

[He ends, with evident lightening of the heart.]