Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...conversation bright...
...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...
...Faculty, so it is said, will "put out" some of the "bright and shining lights...
...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...
...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...