Then Martin had a bright idea, and groping his way to the bucket of cold water standing beside the fire-place, he managed to raise it up in his arms, and poured it over the sleeper.

" What a bright idea!

Then, a bright idea came to him.

What was yore bright idea of tellin' Luke Tweezy we were gonna ride for Jack Harpe so's to watch him?"

I've had such a bright idea I couldn't rest.

[Illustration: A BRIGHT IDEA.

Others as fair, to others eyes may seem, But she has all my love and my esteem: Her bright idea wanders in my thought, At once my poison, and my antidote.

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He had a bright idea; they would go to Versailles, the three of them; his sister would see to having a bit of veal cooked overnight, and they could take it with them.

"I'll tell you what I'll do," he said, as if a bright idea had suddenly struck him.

A bright idea of Edgar's was to ride in a row-boat pulled by eight kings under the old régime.

What a bright idea!

Meanwhile, the lady, with others to help her, had been busy; and all were wide awake now, entering into the spirit of the matter, thinking that the bright idea of Mr. Perseverance might possibly be accomplished in season.

" "Why, to wear, too,to look at,to have and to hold for better, for worse,to say my prayers on," for a bright idea struck me, "to say my prayers on, like the Florence rosary."

It was the finding of the ancient sickle near the well that gave Ken the bright idea of cutting down the tall, dry grass for bedding.

At last, the bright idea struck meI will get in next time with my cigar; what if we are nine herrings in the barrel?everybody smokes in this countrythey won't objectand I think, by keeping the steam well up, I can neutralize a little of the polecat.

I believe it was General Jackson who first introduced the practice of a wholesale sweeping out of opponents from all situations, however small; and this bright idea has been religiously acted upon by all succeeding presidents.

Suddenly a bright idea strikes him: others may do what he dare not; so he makes the following stirring appeal to his countrymen: "Let us spit out courageously before the whole world ...

Bright idea of yours, them fires!

Then a bright idea, the result of reading sensational fiction, occurred to him, and raising his rifle to his shoulder he aimed at the lock and pulled the trigger.

Then Keith's mother had a bright idea.

A bright idea flashed upon Mr. Nott's troubled mind.