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Word: brightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...conversation bright...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN VACATION. | 1/11/1878 | See Source »

...place was full of skaters, good and bad; round the circle, on the outside, swung happy couples; in the centre two or three stylish young men were solemnly going through the most wonderful evolutions, to the delight of the children peeping through the ventilators; and in one corner two bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked girls were practising a graceful figure which I had never seen. They knew I was watching them; for I heard the light-haired one ask the other if I were not a student. The dark one appeared not to hear, at which the light one seemed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT TWO FATHERS THOUGHT. | 1/11/1878 | See Source »

...Faculty, so it is said, will "put out" some of the "bright and shining lights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

...they rub her hands, and put snow on her white forehead, and she does not move. And they get out smelling-salts, and send up to the house for brandy, and she does not move. And I went away, and leaned against the mare, and looked at the cold, bright stars; for I could not look...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHRISTMAS WAITS. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

...Yard has looked pleasant for the past few days; even gloomy old University wears a more cheerful aspect. Steps are lighter and faces more bright, except perhaps the pallid faces of Freshmen who are on their way to the examination-room. There they will become oblivious to everything but the proctors, while they scribble the accumulated lore of a night's grind or a crib upon the pages of the well-named blue-book; and when the last of those tragedies - or farces, if you will - is over, they, too, will be as merry as the rest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOMUM. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

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