Crossword-Solution: SHININGS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Had not the light kindly and tenderly waited for me, I had lost sight of it, and had perished in the way; for sometimes it was so far before me, that I could hardly discern it; and then I would quicken my diligence, and be more careful of my goings, and keep as close to it as I could; so that sometimes the light shined round about me, and I walked in the shinings of it with great fulness of spirit.

The pageantry of courts, and pompous crowning of kings and queens, grand and splendid as they are, have not such spiritual fragrance as these village queen-makings; soft glimmerings and shinings-through of the light of a better world--a world with which man, let conventionality disguise him as it may, always has some sympathies.

This keeps a man in ease, either to act for God with advantage, if an opportunity be put in his hand, or to suffer, as under his supportings, and the shinings of his face, whereby, even while dying, he becomes an ornament to his profession, gives a dash to the enemy, and so becomes more than a conqueror.

Mother Ursula was with them till Dan tried his bullying, and then she held him and his father off.” The expression on Richard’s amiable face contradicted its habitual shinings towards sweetness.