brichter

"Oh -- but that's very different," said the agent, growing brichter at once.

Between You and Me Harry Lauder 1910

There he pointed up into the wild of stars, and said, 'Ye see yon star o' the tap o 'that ither ane' at's brichter nor itsel? '

Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864

But he took anither waucht (large draught) o 'the whusky, an' his een grew brichter, an 'the stanes aboot him began to flash again; an' my leddy admired him the mair, that what wad hae felled ony ither man ony waukened him up a bit.

Malcolm George MacDonald 1864