first brightening
Example Sentences
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She nodded approvingly at first, brightening visibly at the emancipative vision conjured up in her tired brain, but after five minutes of serious cogitation relapsed into gloom.
From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)
In fact, after the first brightening of her face at the moment of my appearance, a sort of shadow had come upon it, as though cast from a mind not at rest.
From A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Litsey, Edwin Carlile
