160 collocations for lightened

It was her sister Mary who first spoke about it, having seen with sorrow how changed the once happy blind sister had become, and longing to lighten her burden.

By all the rules of arithmetic, the daily subtraction of three meals from the store should have lightened the load.

With a beating, but still lightened heart, Gelsomina glided along the passages, carefully locking each door, as of wont, behind her, when she had passed through it.

In the towns, one found inventions that lightened labor, and brought to the reach of all a physical comfort that in England only the rich enjoyed, but the contrasts were sharp.

Some small steamers of 1000 to 1500 tons burden came up from Port Said to a little cove north of Belah to lighten the railway's task.

We had orders to pitch a large tent at a suitable spot and to lighten ship of the doctor's personal and scientific effects.

When this took place the rest of the soldiers became both discouraged and confused, and rather wishing themselves to escape likewise kept raising their sails, and the others kept throwing the towers and the furnishings into the sea in order to lighten the vessels and make good their departure.

In particular, it will greatly lighten your labours, to follow the public taste, instead of taking upon you to direct it.

My friend took care that his visit should result in lightening the weight of the old woman's troubles a little.

These lines from the Fight at Finnsburg, dating from about the same time as Beowulf, have only the flash of the sword to lighten their gloom.

We are gifted with the power of imagination and by this power we can lighten the darkness which surrounds the world of the senses...

The Athenians trained this bird for fighting, and Severus used to lighten the cares of royalty by witnessing the spirit of its combats.

She felt a desire to lighten my sorrows as much as possible, and, under the existing circumstances, had found it comparatively easy to persuade the good-natured planter to acquiesce in her suggestion.

She began the conversation in French(he was announced with all due ceremony as Monsieur le Ministre des Affaires Etrangeres) and W. said she spoke it remarkably well,then, with her beautiful smile which lightened up her whole face: "I think I can speak English with a Cambridge scholar."

Which sett'st the eye without, and mind within; Lighten my spirit with one clear heavenly ray, Which now to view itself doth first begin.

It seems at first sight therefore strange to find so reasonable a writer as John Stuart Mill declaring, "It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."

what burthens can it lighten?

"Aha!" exclaimed Giles, setting aside his arrows, "yonder should be Rogera hungry Roger and therefore surly, and a surly Roger is rare sport to lighten a dull hour.

Has it not risen a light to lighten the Gentiles, a joy to angels and archangels, and saints, and all the elect of God; ay, to the whole universe of God, so that the very stars in their courses, the trees as they bud each spring, yea, the very birds upon the bough, are singing for ever, in the ears of those who have ears to hear, "Christ is risen?"

We were almost always under fire from the enemy; but with the utmost cheerfulness, and even, I may say, good-humour, the whole of the infantry did all in their power to lighten the work of the overtasked artillerymen: comrades we were, all striving for the accomplishment of one purposethat of bringing swift and sure destruction on the rebels who had for so long a period successfully resisted our arms.

again Night drowns me in its darkness and its gloom, And I must crouch amidst the wind and rain, Without one hope-gleam lightening my pain; All things are leagued to darken down my doom.

They some of the cargo overboard to lighten the boat.

Generally arm in arm, these kindly coadjutors lightened for each other the toilsome duties of their profession, and when, in advanced age, one found it convenient to retire, the other was not long in discovering that it suited him to lay down the fasces also.

"They who have so few at their own board, need think of those who have so many," she said, dropping a piece of gold into the hand of the Genevese: then she added, in a voice scarce louder than a whisper"If the young and innocent of thy household can offer a prayer in the behalf of a poor girl who has much need of aid, 'twill be remembered of God, and it may serve to lighten the grief of one who has the dread of being childless.

Thus, just as men who put a hand to people's burdens relieve them, so I might lighten this misfortune of yours, and the more easily than they inasmuch as I shall take upon myself the smallest share of it.

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