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And the gorge widened to narrow outlet and the gloom lightened to gray. [13]
The minute she was lightened the comet swung along by me the same as if I was anchored. [5]
The darkness lightened, turned to slow-drifting haze, and lifted. [13]
He had come to confide his troubles to her, and she kindly lightened the task for him by asking why he had not gone to breakfast with the Pelusinians. [10]
It lightened, the thunder crashed, the wind howled and twisted the treetops. [4]
I perceived that talk lightened him, and led him on. [9]
But now he shed tears--tears that it lightened her aching heart to see--and making as though he would fall upon his knees, besought her to forgive him. [12]
But the airship rose higher as the sand was poured out, and so it seems to me I have felt myself getting above the mists and clouds whenever I have lightened myself of some portion of the mental ballast I have carried with me. [6]
Mr. Bolton was relieved, exactly as a water-logged ship is lightened by throwing overboard the most valuable portion of the cargo--but the leak was not stopped. [5]
Help and the pledge of help had lightened many a dark corner that night; and an unexplainable antipathy which had suddenly grown up in Al'mah's mind against Jasmine after her arrival at Glencader was dissipated as the hours wore on. [11]
It is a pleasure, my dears, when writing of that hour of bitterness, to record the moments of sweetness which lightened it. [9]
It soon came out that mine was not the only shot fired; there were five others--a division of the guilt which was a grateful relief to me, since it in some degree lightened and diminished the burden I was carrying. [5]
The mare, lightened of the weight, followed well. [11]
The paper had now lightened the sergeant's heart as it had formerly done her own. [10]
But had she not lightened it for him a little by choosing this way of telling him that she could not eat his bread or partake of his bounty? [9]
It thundered, it lightened, the foundations of the temple shook--but she no longer looked for the final crash; she had ceased to believe in the majesty, the power and the purity of the divinity behind the veil. [10]
One hope had lightened all the years of my servitude. [9]
It was too late that day, but he resolved to go to the confessional on the morrow, for absolution had always relieved and lightened his heart. [10]
As he read his face lightened, and he fetched such a sigh of relief, that Mrs. Bolton and Ruth both exclaimed. [5]
Many a pull had she lightened for us by a flash of humor. [9]
How many others had brought their troubles here, had been lightened on the very threshold of this sanctuary! [9]
The slow days drifted on, and each left behind it a slightly lightened weight of apprehension. [5]
She, may be, did not much heed the still small voice that sang in her maiden heart as she went about her work, and which lightened it and made it easy, "Philip has come. [5]
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]
In Besa she could set to work with Hannah, and this prospect lightened her grief in quitting Alexandria. [10]
The passage lightened and widened, and opened at the foot of a narrow, steep, ascending chute. [13]
Tall, of gracious and stately carriage, the curious quietness of the face of the Comtesse would have been almost an unbecoming gravity were it not that the eyes, clear, dark, and strong, lightened it. [11]
It rained indeed and lightened and thundered, yet all was well till, nigh to Saint Linhart, the hail came down, beating on them heavily. [10]
Before he awakes and comes out, growling, the sky in the east is lightened a shade, and the star of the dawn sparkles less brilliantly. [4]
His duties as a sovereign forced him to travel, and his love of travel lightened the duty. [10]

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