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Word: brightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...face was as impassive and immovable as though that had been covering it. I marked the axe also. As he saw my glance, he, too, looked down upon it, and patted it with some such pride as a father might feel in his fair-haired child. The axe was bright and gleaming, as though it had never been used; but I detected a small, dark-red spot on one side. He, too, saw it, and calmly rubbed it off with his sleeve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ? | 4/23/1880 | See Source »

...sunset bright...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOOD-NIGHT. | 4/23/1880 | See Source »

...prospects of '82 Crew are not so bright as they were before two of their best men left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/2/1880 | See Source »

...Matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2. The rest of the week, Jarrett and Rice's "new musical comedy oddity." by George Fawcett Rowe, "Fun on the Bristol," the action of which takes place in an up-town New York house, and on the Sound steamer "Bristol." It is bright and amusing. The Tragedians of Kalamazoo" will be given April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STAGE. | 4/2/1880 | See Source »

BOSTON THEATRE. 7.45 P.M. Matinee, Saturday, at 2. The "Princess Toto" will be continued until further notice. It is a bright comic opera, written by Mr. Frederic Clay; the libretto, by Mr. Gilbert, is clever, as we expect everything from his pen to be. The romantic Princess Toto is afflicted with a complete want of memory; this leads to many curious complications, when she successively runs away with a party of bandits and a band of Indians, and is pursued by Prince Doro and by Caramel, both aspirants to her hand. Miss Braham's acting as the Princess is good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STAGE. | 3/19/1880 | See Source »

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