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Sentences starting with lighten

Lighten ship! [5]

Sentences ending with lighten

Then his stupor began to lighten. [5]

More example sentences with the word lighten in them

Oh, we have wandered far, my dear, and we have loved apace; A little hut we built upon the sand, The sun without to lighten it, within, your golden face,-- O happy dream, O happy No Man's Land! [11]
Yesterday afternoon I told her about some plans I had been devising while absent in Bermuda, to lighten her burdens. [5]
The compassionate impulse to lighten the lot of a sufferer, which had before drawn her so strongly to Caracalla, had now lost its sense and meaning for this healthy, high-spirited man. [10]
But how much there is in our times to lighten its burdens! [6]
I threw from the shallop into the stream enough wheat to lighten her, and now, well stored and trimmed, we pushed away upon our course, the Chevalier and his men rowing, while my men rested and tended the sail, which was now set. [11]
The auguries which the Friend drew from these signs of civilization of a charming inn and a royal supper did not lighten the melancholy of his mind. [4]
Nearly all her supplies were landed on one of the mounds to lighten her, and she was headed down stream to relieve those below. [5]
She was a sinking vessel, with no freight in her to throw over lighten ship withal. [5]
It is a part of charity for each man to regard his neighbor as himself--to feel for him, as it were, with his own heart--to lighten his burdens, minister unto him in his sorrows, and to gladden his happiness. [10]
However, it is one of the privileges of wealth to lighten the cares and duties of maternity, and the enlarged household was arranged upon a basis that did not interfere with the life of fashion and the charitable engagements of the mother. [4]
Such evidences that one is in the highway of human experience and feeling lighten the footsteps wonderfully. [6]
Perhaps it may lighten your punishment. [10]
Only anxious to lighten in some sort the fate of the sweet young creature whom she had learned to love, she made much of the difficulty of procuring a fresh dress for Melissa, though she was perfectly aware that her sister-in-law possessed many such. [10]
Her eyes flashed intelligence, and presently, as she passed in, a sort of hope seemed to have come on her face to lighten its painful pensiveness. [11]
She flattered herself, however, that she could lighten his gravity if she had the right and the good opportunity; the more so that he no longer visited the cottage in the Place du Vier Prison. [11]
There were some heavy hours to get rid of, and we thought a visit to Camp Curtin might lighten some of them. [6]
Did he think--did he think that that could ease the pain, could lighten the dark day settling down on her? [11]
The matron, too, had become warmly attached to Daphne, and would gladly have done all that lay in her power to lighten Hermon's sad fate, yet she persisted in her determination to return speedily to her old husband in Pelusium. [10]
But quite apart from, and independent of, this source of popularity, Mr Swiveller had another, which promised to be equally enduring, and to lighten his position considerably. [12]
A moderate reservation from the interest on the bonds would compensate the United States for the preparation and distribution of the notes and a general supervision of the system, and would lighten the burden of that part of the public debt employed as securities. [7]
It looked so fiendishly selfish, so like throwing fathers and brothers overboard to lighten the boat for our security, that the noble-minded shrank from the manifest meanness of the thing. [7]
My art has few means of mitigating them, and the immortals are little inclined to lighten the load they have laid on this man. [10]
He saw well enough that Helen Darley would certainly kill herself or lose her wits, if he could not lighten her labors and lift off a large part of her weight of cares. [6]
He thought that Cynthia's spirits seemed lightened a little, and he meant to lighten them more; so he joked as much as his respect for his passengers would permit, and told the news of Brampton. [9]
If his eyes are not opened to all Thy truth, let Thy compassion lighten the darkness that rests upon him, even as it came through the word of thy Son to blind Bartimeus, who sat by the wayside, begging! [6]
Helena's silent grief and her joy at our escape will lighten your heart. [10]
Joshua listened willingly and assured her that nothing would lighten his heart more than to have her clear herself from the charge of having consigned him and the youth at his side to their most terrible fate. [10]

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