Usage examples (6)

• Ignoring Gusterson's shiver, Fay straightened up and seemed to brisken himself.
• There was an old hair trunk in one corner, and a guitar-box in another, and all sorts of little knickknacks and jimcracks around, like girls brisken up a room with.
• I know that, when I was there, the view from the first rise back of the grounds, looking down upon that long flat where men by thousands were toiling, and building after...
• Suppose we brisken up.