Once when an unusually bright beam of sunlight fell from between the clouds, he tilted up his hat to get the warmth and I thought him guilty of a skip and syncopation in the ringing of his bell, as if he too twitched pleasantly with the Spring and his old sap was stirred.

" "Now what are you raving about?" asked Laura, turning a pair of unnaturally bright eyes upon her.

what glorious features Spotless fair, divinely bright!

It grew clear and steady, and quickly resolved itself into one intensely bright circle.

The child had wonderfully bright eyes, and came towards me as though we were old acquaintances, laughing and chattering, and showing me her toys.

" We had no sooner got into the yard than a feeble little gentleman, with a remarkably bright eye, came up to us, looking very serious, as if something had happened.

So it was with Frank and Andy; they had grown to know each other's points so well that when the moment came it often seemed as though they instinctively formed a single unit, with that exceedingly bright brain possessed by Frank doing all the piloting of the combination.

And truly, her thin and mobile lips were of a strangely bright coral, and her usually wan cheeks wore a delicate flush, lending her a beauty, not youthful, to be sure, but yet fascinating.

She was not what you girls call 'real bright,' but she was bright enough to have a heartache every day.

"As the last rays of sunlight disappeared, the corona burst out all around the sun, so intensely bright near the sun that the eye could scarcely bear it; extending less dazzlingly bright around the sun for the space of about half the sun's diameter, and in some directions sending off streamers for millions of miles.

O Liberty, thou goddess heavenly bright, 120 Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight!

Anyhow, forewarned as I was, I felt it would be an uncommonly bright policeman who succeeded in arresting me.

His closing days were singularly bright and happy.

Then was the Spirit gloriously bright Of Heaven's Keeper borne over the deep Swiftly.

At evening the moon shone eminently bright; and our thoughts of danger being now past, the rest of our journey was very pleasant.

"The flowers are awfully bright up here, aren't they?"

Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright!

The warm consciousness of being surrounded by kindness which had made the California sunshine doubly bright, was chilled.

The opening lines of the same canto, transplanted from the Curse of Minerva, are even more suggestive: Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hill the setting sun, Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light, &c. In the same way, the later cantos of Harold are steeped in Switzerland and in Italy.

"That girl is too wildly, spiritually bright," she said to herself.

They were peculiarly bright.

Moses, whose grand and awful face Of Sinai's thunder bore the trace, And wise Elias,in his eyes The shade of Israel's prophecies, Stood in that wide, mysterious light, Than Syrian noons more purely bright, One on each hand, and high between Shone forth the godlike Nazarene.

And sure the spot was haunted by a power To fix the pulses in each youthful heart; Never was moon more gracious in a bower, Making delicious fancy-work for art, Weaving so meekly bright Her pictures of delight, That, though afraid to stay, we sorrowed to depart.

But Bull shook his head as he answered, "Maybe a mighty bright man might figure it out, but I'm not good at figuring things out, Tod.

During these years an exceptionally bright Negro was serving as a teacher not of his own race but of the most aristocratic white people of North Carolina.