How trustingly they cling to each other, and how their wan aspects brighten in the warmth of their mutual affection!
We prized your worth while with us; but now you're gone from sight, We feel "how blessings brighten while they are taking flight.
O, this glorious, sweet-breathed morning, with its birds and flowers, is enough to brighten the most torpid thing into animation!
Extract every thorn from his pathway, chase away every cloud of sorrow, brighten his lonely hours, smooth the pillow of sickness, and press lovingly his hand in death.
Then she would with artistic skill brighten the room, and beguile her husband from his books, and the time would go on wings, as they read and discussed a new book, and sung together their old and new songs.
She gets unhappy by herself, with no young people in the house and only my mother and me to brighten her up.
The touch of the coins recalled to her the pleasure with which she had spent her own three-and-sixpence to brighten his room, and she half repented.
Twas he who gave our Maiden Matanuska the magic robe that saved her life; and he it was who brought the Sun to brighten our dark land.
His heart bounded as he saw Peg's face brighten as she ran from one object to another and commented on them.
In the religions of the East, the soul is re-incarnistic; in order to purify itself it rubs itself against a new body, like a blade in sandstone troughs, to brighten it.
I only wish I'd known how to take a little of my foolishness along with me, as some folks do, to brighten my declining years.
Every night, the moment the young ladies have retired to rest, does Miss Twinkleton smarten up her curls a little, brighten up her eyes a little, and become a sprightlier Miss Twinkleton than the young ladies have ever seen.
They brighten at the sight of you,' returned Neville.
This ingeniously suggestive hint enhances the natural charm of his ware to such a degree that the vases are bought up briskly, as calculated to brighten the humblest home.
When death's awful image was nigh, And no mortal was able to save, Thou didst brighten the valley of death, And illumine the gloom of the grave.
Thy love can cheer the darksome gloom, And bid me wait serene; Till hopes and joys immortal bloom, And brighten all the scene.
He would sit beside him for hours, looking patiently into his face; and a word would brighten up his care-worn visage, and call into it a passing gleam, even of happiness.
Well, there was comfort in that; and poor Nicholas would brighten up again, to be again depressed, as his quickly shifting thoughts presented every variety of light and shade before him.
He slept most of the time, but at long intervals he would brighten up and tell of his prowess when a warrior.
The clouds were passing rapidly over the moon, and at long intervals a rift between the clouds let enough light through to brighten the square for an instant.
A visit there will brighten her up and do her good.
A puff of wind just then put out the lantern, as the person who bore it was attempting to brighten its flame.
And as he did so, he thought he observed her eyes averted, and her color brighten for a moment.
The greater impulsiveness and vivacity of the French Canadian can brighten up, so to say, the stolidity and ruggedness of the Saxon.
Not a few of these men formed in the Canadian colony little centres from which radiated more or less of intellectual light to brighten the prevailing darkness of those rough times of Canadian settlement.
As for the principal, as she closed the door with a gentle "Thank you," she told herself that it was much better for the poor child to go; and that she must see to it what she could do during the week to brighten that room a little.
I could see mamma's face brighten over the thought of being there once more; and though I hate that too, for mamma's sake, I was glad that we listened to Dr.
The name of the charming lady who has so kindly helped to brighten up Mr. Fallaray's week-end.
Do not make the way seem harder By a sullen face; Smile a little, smile a little, Brighten up the place.
My life is a brief, brief thing, I am here for a little space, And while I stay I would like, if I may, To brighten and better the place.
A sense of humour, and a touch of mirth, To brighten up the shadowy spots of earth; And pride that passes evil--choosing good.
I tried, you know, to brighten up my style in 'Lord Effingham,' and I failed.
By the way, why don't you try to brighten up your style a little?
But whence, when joy should brighten o'er the land, This sullen gloom in Judah's captive band?
