lightness

Example Sentences

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She had stumbled and gone astray,—she told herself hourly now that she had stumbled and gone astray,—in preparing those roses and ribbons, and other lightnesses for her young girl.

From John Caldigate by Trollope, Anthony

And all those lightnesses of the brain she could introduce in the opening scene—the very opening cry was one of them.

From Evelyn Innes by Moore, George (George Augustus)

Kate had remained in the window, very handsome and upright, the outer dark framing in a highly favourable way her summery simplicities and lightnesses of dress.

From The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 by James, Henry

My Physicians have made me afraid, that this disease will work into my head, and so put me into lightnesses, therefore I am desirous that I be understood before any such danger overtake me.

From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by Donne, John