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Word: brightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...think its tints too bright...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COLLEGE PICTURE. | 2/23/1878 | See Source »

...though bright-gleaming on the night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COLLEGE PICTURE. | 2/23/1878 | See Source »

These puzzling cross lights and dazzling sunbeams may be seen to advantage in U. 2. There on a bright morning the different portions of a class are divided from each other and from the instructor by bands of sunlight and zones of darkness. Moreover, through the windows right before us we have a full view of Thayer or Weld, as the case may be, so curiously and fantastically distorted by the peculiar quality of glass used at Harvard as irresistibly to distract the attention of our imaginative and speculative mind. As the preservation of our eyesight ought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUGGESTIONS FOR SEVER HALL. | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

...bright and sweet the hour we meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

...Dartmouth is certainly one of the most enterprising of our exchanges. The pictures of the Faculty that it has contained from month to month have been excellent photographs of fine-looking men. The local department is especially well sustained, and in the last number a bright letter from Vassar enables one not to be severe on a four-column article entitled "Fossil Bird-Tracks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

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