She glanced round the little room; there was nothing in it to distract or irritate, or even to suggest a train of thought; except perhaps the books; everything was calming and soothing, with a touch of gaiety in the lightness of the wall decorations.

But all day long he felt the loss of it heavy on his heart, and no reconciling lightness in the sled.

A small pinch of carbonate of soda will give an extraordinary lightness to puff pastes; and, introduced into the teapot, will extract the full strength of the tea.

The lightness with which Niggertown accepted the moral side glance of a blanket search-warrant depressed Siner.

When their tired eyes had got accustomed to the mingled smoke and glare, the travellers could see that in the space beyond the card tables, in those back regions where the pianola reigned, there were several couples twirling aboutthe clumsily-dressed miners pirouetting with an astonishing lightness on their moccasined feet.

It is built of light, grey stone, with steep gables and slender chimneys rising with airy lightness from the level sward by the margin of the beautiful lake, and backed by the grand amphitheatre of the fells at the other side, whose snowy peaks show faintly against the sky, tinged with the vaporous red of the western light.

" I forced some kind of lightness into my voice, "Sleep will be grateful," I said, "for I have come many miles this day, and the welcome I have got this evening has been too warm for a weary man.

The grooms have let go the horses' heads, and have climbed up in dapper lightness at the back: we are through the first gate!

She had stumbled and gone astray,she told herself hourly now that she had stumbled and gone astray,in preparing those roses and ribbons, and other lightnesses for her young girl.

" "Well, isn't love the most important thing,to women?" asked Phebe, sitting down on the floor to nurse the fire, her thin muslin making a little ripple of pretty lightness around her.

" There was finality in his tone, its lightness notwithstanding.