I was too proud to follow her and pick it up, but sprang away in an opposite direction, and was soon out of her sight.
There are but four men between them at this moment, and two are down, stark and dead, and two are dragging their mangled bodies slowly to the rear, and the brothers are face to face under the fatal batteries of the Redan.
Already he aspires to be a man, in his own eyes, and thinks it manly to make light of those affections and endearments by which he once set such store.
To make merriment by words or actions; to joke; to make light of anything.
To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten.
To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright; to illuminate; to illumine.
The headmistress was not disposed to make light of the affair; like Miss Trent, she considered that the reputation of the school might be seriously compromised by Gwen's behaviour, and she did not spare the culprit.
Though Beatrice tried to make light of her own illness, the doctor took a different view of the case, and greatly to her consternation ordered her promptly to bed.
Manifold small slights and snubs fell to Gwen's share, and though she affected to make light of them, they hurt all the same.
Tell them of the odiousness of all these sins, and teach them such texts as most expressly condemn them; and never pass it by or make light of it, when you find them guilty.
Mr. Kelly was readily beguiled into the sincere opinion that she had fought against her passion, but that her weakness and his transcendent bravery, of which she would by no means allow him to make light, had proved her ruin.
She sent word to George daily that he should expect her on the morrow, until a delirium took her, and the doctor, who had been charged by Rose to make light of her suffering, was now forced to tell Mr. Kelly the truth.
I apologise to you, but I cannot oblige you to the extent you wish, however you may attempt to make light of your courage, and of the obligation on my side.
To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.
Yes, even you must know that, although it is your nature to make light of your goodness.
But it was evidently a part of his character to make light of his wealth; assuredly a pleasant idiosyncrasy.
You have tried not to dwell upon it; you have even tried to make light of it for the sake of the women: but on the whole it has grieved you more than even this dastard robbery.
Annie was a hearty dear, and she knew that half my talk was joke, to make lightof my worrying.
I felt that the wise woman gazed at me in wrath as well as sorrow; and then I grew angry that any one should seem to make light of Lorna.
If I make light of the blood, and trample it under my feet, then it cries out for God's condemnation; but if I am sheltered behind the blood, there is no condemnation for me.
If we make light of that blood, what is going to become of our souls?
If we make light of it, and send back an insulting message, saying we don't stand in need of it, we shall stand speechless before God's tribunal.
Defn: To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright; to illuminate; to illumine.
The records of absurd prodigies of every sort so throng his pages that he himself repeatedly ventures to make light of them.
Even among rationalists it has not been uncommon to make light of Calvin's crimes on the score that his energy maintained a polity which alone sustained Protestantism against the Catholic Reaction.
This hath made them over-careful for such tears, and grief, and passions, and dangerously to make light of the many greater instances of the hardness of their hearts.
I know you will say, Should I be so ungodly as to make light of such sinful thoughts?
Jasper," said his wife, "I wouldn't make light of it.
The recollection of her impertinence confused her, and she hastened to make light of it by protesting gaily: "I was only joking.
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