lightnesses

But these are the lightnesses in a novel that has set itself the task of capturing the conflicts and contradictions that, in Jacobson's view, characterise the position of contemporary British Jews.

The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson 2010

She had stumbled and gone astray, — she told herself hourly now that she had stumbled and gone astray, — in preparing those roses and ribbons, and other lightnesses for her young girl.

John Caldigate 2004

And all those lightnesses of the brain she could introduce in the opening scene -- the very opening cry was one of them.

Evelyn Innes 1892

To his completeness go qualities evolved from the latest lightnesses of to-day -- indeed, the _fine fleur_ of his type is brought forth in Paris, and beside him the Englishman is but rough-hewn and blundering after all; though not unkindly should one say it, as reproaching him with inferiority resulting from chances neglected.

The Gentle Art of Making Enemies James McNeill Whistler 1868

If, suddenly, in the midst of the enjoyments of the palate and lightnesses of heart of

On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859

She had stumbled and gone astray, -- she told herself hourly now that she had stumbled and gone astray, -- in preparing those roses and ribbons, and other lightnesses for her young girl.

John Caldigate Anthony Trollope 1848

Agnomen,) you must not weigh trifles in gold-assaying scales; be not so particular as to the polish of a thumb-nail; endure a little incoherent pastime; count not the several stems of hay, straw, stubble -- but suffer them to be pitch-forked _en masse_, and unconsidered: it is their privilege, in common with that of certain others -- lightnesses that froth upon the surface of society.

An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

Agnomen,) you must not weigh trifles in gold-assaying scales; be not so particular as to the polish of a thumb-nail; endure a little incoherent pastime; count not the several stems of hay, straw, stubble -- but suffer them to be pitch-forked _en masse_, and unconsidered: it is their privilege, in common with that of certain others -- lightnesses that froth upon the surface of society.

The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849