Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Latham's fine fielding at second was one of the features of the game; a most brilliant fly catch marking his play. Tyng, as usual, sustained his reputation at the bat. Nunn and Alger played well for the Beacons in the field; while Moore carried off the honors at the bat. The element of the "unwashed" predominated so largely among the audience, and made itself so decidedly objectionable, that the officers of the Base-Ball Club have decided to rope the field in and have police-men in attendance at the game to-morrow. Below is the score...
Emerson, it is said, keeps a huge note-book by him night and day, in which to record every brilliant thought, and whenever he has filled a dozen pages in this way he selects a title at random, and publishes them as a new essay. Smith was following, in a measure, this plan. Every incident in the barn-yard, every narrow escape from a mowing-machine, was booked for future use. Such is the devotion to art which every literary man feels...
...practical philosophy seemed equal to any emergency; and no strange and unexpected circumstances ever excited him to any more vehement expressions than the utterance of his sole exclamatory oath, `By Zeus!' uttered with a tone of unmingled surprise." With his chosen few, and with them only, he was a brilliant conversationalist...
...Pardon my emotion," said he; "but look down upon this brilliant assembly, - gaze upon the youth and beauty gathered here...
...undexterous classmate troubled himself more about its birth and troubled us less about his "first-rate 2d tenor." As the matter now stands, however, the Glee Club is out of the question; for the members of such a thing would be the laughing-stock of the College after my brilliant friend's effusion...