become cheerful

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

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

We are told that at Chios there was a head of Artemis set high up, which appeared morose to those entering the temple, but when they left it seemed to have become cheerful.

From Religion and Art in Ancient Greece by Ernest Arthur Gardner

The sun glinted among the bottles of Unfailing Lotion in the window, and everything in the world seemed to have relaxed and become cheerful.

From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

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

From A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion by Benjamin Offen