brighten

seestyä

valaista puhekieltä To make bright or brighter in color.

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The present queen would brighten her character, if she would exert her authority to instill virtues into her people.

An ecstasy, which mothers only feel, / Plays round my heart and brightens all my sorrow.

Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

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