There was a warm light in her eye, the peculiar, benevolent beam which enlivens the glance of the far-sighted mamma as it rests upon an eligible young man.
"Jane Lends A Hand"
Shirley Watkins
The powers above mentioned operate nearly as yeast in a lump of dough, that enlivens the whole.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
The natural play of characters, acting and reacting upon one another, enlivens the divinely-appointed action of the Aeneid, only in such exceptional passages as the episode of Dido; nor does it add the charm of human associations to the poet's deep and quiet pictures of rural beauty, and to his graceful expression of pensive and tender feeling.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar