Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sided and rather uninteresting, but the exhibition by our nine was very gratifying. Baker was unable to play on account of an injured hand, and his loss was materially felt at the bat, but his position at short-stop was perfectly filled by Lovering, who made a very brilliant stop of a swift grounder in the eighth inning. During the first four innings, Nichols and Allen pitched and caught with excellent effect...
...that general, having ceased his opposition to Shaman's movements, determined to capture Nashville. His plan was to surprise that city before it could be reinforced. and then march to Virginia and help Lee annihilate Grant before Sherman could come to the latter's relief. The plan was a brilliant one, and had he moved at once nothing would have been in his way. He delayed when delay was fatal. Thomas, who had been placed in command of two corps and some scattered garrisons to guard a long line of communication, was ordered to neutralize and check this movement...
...freshman who translated de mortuis nil nisi bonum: "From the dead nothing but bones," has a brilliant career awaiting him in the medical profession...
...Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa as a literary society, particularly among its graduate members, it is but natural that Yale should wish to imitate this success. Of course there are local causes which prompt the revival of this society at New Haven. Nevertheless the long series of brilliant meetings during commencement week at Harvard of this society, -occasions which have been rendered famous by orations or poems by such men as Emerson, Wendell Phillips, James Russell Lowell, E. C. Stedman, Geo. W. Curtis, Charles Francis Adams and Robert Grant, -cannot but reflect lustre upon the fame of the society...
While Jackson had been executing this brilliant movement, Lee had occupied the attention of Hooker's main force by a light attack in front. Sickles, one of Hooker's corps commanders, had, meanwhile, almost separated Lee and Jackson, and was waiting orders when the rush of Jackson's men swept up towards his own flank. Here a desperate and important struggle took place: The position in question, Hazel Grove, was occupied by some Union batteries which held the enemy in check while the crowd of fugitives from Howard's corps rushed through the line of guns to the rear. Major...