... Rewards also might be given to those slaves who should raise a certain number of children; and to those who should devise means of lightening negro-labour...
Thomas Clarkson 「The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the」
...He had gone on some distance further when he perceived some lightening in the north-east, a delightful sight, for it promised rain, and soon he heard the wind roaring among the bushes...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...Thepeals of thunder, and flashes of vivid lightening, which seemed to leapfrom mountain to mountain and from crag to crag, reverberating amongthe surrounding hills, foretold a heavy storm...
William Wells Brown 「Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States」
...The storm continued to rage, and the loud peals of thunder and sharpflashes of lightening, together with the shrieks and moans of themaniac in the adjoining room, made the night a fearful one...
William Wells Brown 「Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States」
... Instead of giving up a farm-rent, which is perishing in their hands, and thus lightening the labor of the community, our hundred proprietors prefer to rest...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...—Indras, the rain-sending, thundering, lightening,radiant sun, who makes the rain fall and the light return, calledthe bull of bulls...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
...The aquatic Protoleptus, as we may term the ancestor ofLeptus, may have had such tubes as these, which acted like the swimmingbladder of fishes for lightening the body, as suggested by Gegenbaur...
Alpheus Spring Packard 「Our Common Insects」
...That, and a pseudo-sensation of lurchingcaused by the pulsing of gravity—apull when the Moon was beneath ourhull to combine its force with our magnetizers;a lightening when it was overhead...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930」
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