Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...only needs a bright blue...
...commend to the perusal and profit of the editorial board of the foregoing publication the June number of the Abbott Courant. Though somewhat erratic as to its times of appearing, the Courant ranks among the best of its contemporaries. Bright, sensible, and unpretending, it has a strong personality which is its own best recommendation. The bright adaptations of "Mother Goose's Party" are both quaint and original, and the two poems of the number good...
...should be employed in a work which requires tact, taste, and skill. By remembering just where a man sat in a group picture we have been able after much study to recognize a few lineaments of one or two of our most intimate friends. One man, with whose clear, bright eye we were all familiar, comes out under the "Celebrity Photographer's" manipulation Homeric in his blindness. Another, whose mild, good-natured countenance is almost proverbial, by some mysterious process is changed into a hardened roue just returned after ten years' dissipation on the Continent. Another's is very good...
...LEANED far out my window this May-morn To catch the scene so beautiful. Bright flowers Loaded the air with fragrance from rose-bowers, Freshening my heart by cruel fate uptorn. Nestling in new-clothed maples, the robin, born...
THOU silver brooklet, bright and clear...