What is "lightened"

Usage examples of "lightened".

It was lopsided, as though rusty, yet it lightened his face, took ten years off his looks, displayed fine, even teeth land a dimple in his cheek .

Whatever she saw pleased her, for a slow smile lightened her features.

I staggered out of bed, fell into my chair, and rocked, hugging myself, until the corridors lightened with day.

The kiss lightened to a teasing suction at her lower lip, a tender flick of his tongue against hers, a rain of hot, soft kisses against her throat.

Through the strange, lightened darkness and snow we trudged, toward a set of tents which had not stood about the clearing earlier.

He felt his breast lightened when, on his way home, the first chalets, the first abodes of human beings, loomed visible through the fog.

The mists might have lightened for a time, but perhaps it was nothing more than their eyes growing accustomed to the gloom.

Karia was polite, but her tail was switching restlessly, causing little clouds of lightened dust to rise.

Thus, in the spring, when the rain fell heavily, or in the winter, when the great winds were abroad, or in the summer, when the lightning lightened and the thunder thundered, her restless spirit seemed to be roused to sympathetic tumults, and if she could escape the eyes that watched her she would run and race in the tempest, and her eyes would be aglitter, and laughter would be on her lips.

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.

There is a fixed and pale composure upon the features: she seems sad and stricken down in spirit, yet the despair thus expressed is lightened by the patience of gentleness.