Lightener

I’ve had the bleaching done professionally the last couple of times because I can’t find the right kind of lightener in Ireland, but typically I do it myself. ❋ Princessalethea (2007)

Slice them in half and rub on at bedtime -- the vitamin C in lemon is a natural skin lightener. ❋ The Doctors (2010)

Snark is a great lightener and keeps things from turning saccharine. ❋ Nalini Singh (2010)

Enraged, tears streaming down her face, Carmen abruptly rose, gesturing for me to follow her into the walk-in hall closet, which she opened to reveal neatly stacked boxes of Clairol No. 355 Born Blissfully Blonde hair lightener. ❋ Sabrina Lamb (2010)

Some Vietnamese youth will do just about anything to get to America, even dyeing their hair and using skin lightener to pass as Amerasians, the visa-worthy children of American GIs. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“Nay, then,” said Richard, “if he loves not wine, that lightener of the human heart, his conversion is not to be hoped for, and the prediction of the mad priest of Engaddi goes like chaff down the wind.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

Potato is a great lightener-upper of wholegrain breads! ❋ Bryanna Clark Grogan (2007)

We have Black Awareness but every street hawker in town is selling skin-lightener guaranteed to give you cancer. ❋ Le Carre, John, 1931- (2006)

In this way the shell was converted into a decomposing mass before being applied to the ground, and gave excellent results both as a manure and as a lightener of heavy soils. ❋ Arthur William Knapp (N/A)

'Yes, even while we sorrow, we must hope; hope is the great lightener of all trouble. ❋ Mrs. Perring (N/A)

And while a kind word said to such is a real benefit, and a great lightener of the heart, an ingenious malignant may suggest to such things which are as a stunning blow, and as an added load on the weary frame and mind. ❋ Various (N/A)

Take them and go, get thee to eat -- eat much, so shall thy dolour wax less, eat beef -- since beef is a rare lightener of sorrow, by beef shall thy woes be comforted. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)

Thus a man who could pay the customary price would be inclined to add a second wife, whom the first would probably welcome as a lightener of her burdens. ❋ Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1905)

Our lightener did not avail us much, for the river was so low that both boats had to be completely unloaded, and the goods to be carried 400 or 500 yards over the rapids, on the men's backs. ❋ Unknown (1898)