become cheerful

If anything she had become cheerful and certainly as human as any girl he had known.

“That’s what it feels like writing a novel. One would hope you’re purifying your soul as you’re purifying your work. That sounds a bit exalted. I don’t think writers are exemplars of behaviour, but I don’t know any other way to analyse my life, to see myself more clearly, make changes about my behaviour …” He brightens: “… become cheerful because I decide to – other than writing.”

Every now and then Milton’s optimism would sway my mother and she would become cheerful for a day or two.

Let him become cheerful, and his mind become buoyant, he then considers himself sure that he has, what is called, an interest in Christ.

She then went from them to her house; and on the next morning, when she returned, and after she had ministered to them as usual, till they were satisfied with food and drink, and were become cheerful, they spoke the same words to her.