It's lighting-up time.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

He grinned suddenly, a big mischievous lighting-up of the passive patient face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Sports]

The Gauteng provincial government was encouraged to conduct a feasibility study into lighting-up the major roads and freeways in the province.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Van Vuuren also said the lighting-up of Ndaleni and Magoda was one of the means being put in place to assist the patrolling contingent of police and army members.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Who would ask for better entertainment than to watch the lighting-up of bright eyes, and the parting of rosy lips, or the thousand other bewitchments of youth and beauty?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference

A lighting-up ceremony will take place on November 9.    From Wordnik.com.  [ireland.com Breaking News] Reference

Where would you like to be when the lighting-up begins? '.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Year of Jubilee] Reference

Guests conduct the lighting-up ceremony during the event.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Sinchew -] Reference

Elsie turned to him with a sudden lighting-up of her face.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Vanished Hand] Reference

Max exclaimed with a sudden, glad, lighting-up of the face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elsie's Kith and Kin] Reference

Owing to this, Smeaton could not get off to be at the lighting-up of his own building.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Rock] Reference

With a lighting-up of the eye that furnished a flat contradiction to the mother's statement.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference

– With a lighting-up of the eye that furnished a flat contradiction to the mother's statement.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference

The lighting-up pierced the obscurity of the box, and Ramage stopped his urgent flow of words abruptly and sat back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ann Veronica, a modern love story] Reference

Totally YUG: The 16-LED lights shed just enough light to illuminate my workspace without lighting-up the whole room!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yugster.com] Reference

Sick brethren were freely permitted to borrow books for their solace, but such books were returned to the library nightly, at lighting-up time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages] Reference

I cleaned up my room and sat at the window watching the red and gold of one of the most glorious of winter sunrises, and the slow lighting-up of one peak after another.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference

Divine Office (that is, of the recitation of the Psalter with its accompaniments) with a service for what, without any intention of levity, one may call "lighting-up time".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

Clearly lighting-up is an offence more heinous than we could ever have possibly imagined Pop princess Cheryl Cole gets a glamourous gothic makeover for her latest Q Magazine photo shoot.    From Wordnik.com.  [mirror.co.uk - Home] Reference

A short delay was made to allow of the lighting-up being advertised, and finally, on the 16th of October 1759, the new Eddystone lighthouse cast its first benignant rays over the troubled sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Rock] Reference

She was always loth to return, but Aunt Harriet was extremely particular that they must be home before lighting-up time, and would point remorselessly to the small clock that hung facing the seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Luckiest Girl in the School] Reference

When the tyre was mended, something went wrong with the electric ignition, and altogether the repairs proved such a tedious job that they could not make a fresh start until close upon lighting-up time.    From Wordnik.com.  [manybooks.net] Reference

But they were delivered with such a lighting-up of teeth and eyes, and were usually followed by a laugh -- a laugh peculiar to Miggles -- so frank and honest that it seemed to clear the moral atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selected Stories of Bret Harte] Reference

The white frock did not become her brown neck and arms, her thick black hair was arranged in too womanly a manner, and her head and face looked too large; moreover, there was no lighting-up to answer the greeting, and Albinia was disappointed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Step-Mother] Reference

When lighting-up time came it was naturally tired, and wanted a rest. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Men on the Bummel] Reference

"You might light a lamp," Philippa directed, "but don't draw the blinds until lighting-up time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Zeppelin's Passenger] Reference

"Now, I think," said Mr. Osborn, "it is fairly lighting-up time, and that no one can accuse us of being extravagant if we call for the match-boxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Devil's Garden] Reference

A large party had gathered for the lighting-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malady of the Century] Reference

A petticoat, which, they say, is worth one thousand five hundred francs, and this lighting-up is in honour of her putting it on. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Olla Podrida] Reference

"Was such a lighting-up of faith, in life.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference

He don’t like driving himself after lighting-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Busman's Honeymoon]