"No." I was playing with the spoon and watching the room lighten as the candles sputtered.

The room lightened before Julie's eyes.

Slowly the room lightened around him.

Ann would stir as the room lightened, and go to one of the four toilets.

The room lightened and seemed to widen out indefinitely, with it the black vapor.

Dark antique-filled rooms are lightening up and modernist geometric shapes of glass, steel and plastic are moving in.

The room had lightened, dust dancing in shafts of sunlight slicing through boarded windows.

At last, we both lay exhausted, panting, entwined, and I only slowly became aware that the room had lightened.

Perhaps a man would teach him more. . . ." She began to feel a curious infraction of the room and of her personality, seemed to lose the true Florence, and the room lightened as if the season had been changed.

The room went dark, and then lightened gradually with the illumination of the street.