9 examples of over-bright in sentences

He said he had probably not been an over-bright horse to start with, and had been made more dull by cruel usage.

Then we go out into the starlit, but not over-bright night,such a one as is friendly to lovers and to thieves, friendly to religion and to thought, the beloved of sentimentalists, and the adored of this particular group of adventurous miners.

He had always taken 'Abraham Wigmore' for a youth of nineteen or so, some not over-bright, but plodding and earnest clerk or counter-man in the little Gloucestershire town from which the correspondent wrote; it astonished him to see this mature and most respectable person.

Our crops were withering in the fields for want of rain, and we had but five cowsnot an over-bright outlook.

I'm not over-bright, I must confess, when it comes to building fountains in parlors, with no basis but an English bath-tub to work on. Yardsley.

417, ll. 66-69: 'Some inward trouble suddenly Broke from the Matron's strong black eye A remnant of uneasy light, A flash of something over-bright!' Ed.]

" "Oh!" exclaimed Aurora, inwardly ready for fierce tears, but with no outward betrayal save a trifle too much grace and an over-bright smile, "Monsieur is much mistaken; we are quite comfortable and happy, wanting nothing, eh, Clotilde?not even our rights, ha, ha!"

Woods and cornfields, a little brown, The picture must not be over-bright, Yet all in the golden and gracious light Of a cloud, when the summer sun is down.

Alas! those eyes, so grave, so luminous, so steadfast: "Eyes not down-dropt, not over-bright, but fed With the clear-pointed flame of chastity," eyes wherein dwelt "thought folded over thought," what painter need ever hope to copy them?

9 examples of  over-bright  in sentences