How brilliant in his scholarly productions!" Shun had for his ministers five men, by whom he ordered the empire.

How far they went cannot be estimated in words, for distance matters little in that place; but at the end they came to a path which sloped a little downwards to the edge of a delightful moorland country, all brilliant with the hues of the mountain flowers.

By contrast the surrounding blackness was thrown into a deeper shade, and yet the shaft itself was so brilliant as almost to scotch the sight.

But at present I find that I must return to Europe by La Bretagne; since, after the trouble I have taken, it is impossible that I should consent to part with the brilliants of His Highness the Grand Duke.

Above my head was a strong light, more brilliant than anything I had ever seen, and which blazed upon my brain till the hair seemed to singe and the skin shrink.

It will give me great pleasure to present this brilliant to you, with my compliments, provided His Highness, the Grand Duke Michael, who preceded me in possession of the diamond, will join me in the gift.

Said one item, "A string of electric lights, on a street leading up one of our hills, looks like a necklace of brilliants on the bosom of the night."

"It was a most clever plan; and now, no doubt, Crochard can sell the brilliants at his leisure.

These patches which you so disdain were once tiny plasters stretched upon black velvet or silk for the cure of headache, and, though no one was ever known to be so cured, 'twas easy for the illest beauty to perceive that they made her complexion appear more brilliant by contrast.

She knew that society would eat such a man's dinners and dance at his wife's balls, and pretend to think him an altogether exceptional man, make believe to admire him for his own sake, to think his wife most brilliant among women, if he were only rich enough.

It was nearing the end of this period that field trials began to occupy the attention of breeders and sportsmen, and although Setters had been getting into equal repute for the beauty of their work, there was something more brilliant about the Pointers at first.

Not only in thought, but in art, was there an outburst brilliant beyond all earlier times.

The Cours Plénières, which were always held at Christmas, Twelfth-day, Easter, and on the day of Pentecost, were not less brilliant during the reigns of Robert's successors.

But he destroyed the opposing hosts and returned to Tula with a victory all the more brilliant for their desertion of him.

Spots of yellow on the elms seem the more brilliant from the background of dull green.

The rosy hue of sunset was fading to a clear green, and in the midst of a cloudless sky, Jupitervery near the earth at that timeshone intense, and brilliant like a lamp.

But some of us find it easy enough to be witty and brilliant over good wine and a perfectly appointed table.

Brilliant women can be brilliant without either wine or tobacco, and Napoleon always maintained that without an admixture of feminine wit conversation grew tame.

This has been a work calling for solid rather than brilliant qualitiesfor a people morally and physically sound and wholesome, and gifted with "grit" and concentration.

But as those dark days cannot now be discerned, and, as all seems brilliant around him, and full of brightest promise, this prophetic melancholy is thought to lend interest to his handsome features.

They talked of the situation and the property and the demand for copper until Honaton began to look at his watch, a flat platinum watch, perfectly plain, you might have thought, until you caught a glimpse of a narrow line of brilliants along its almost imperceptible rim.

Of all the species of lovely scenery which England holds, none, perhaps, is more exquisite than the banks of the chalk-riversthe perfect limpidity of the water, the gay and luxuriant vegetation of the banks and ditches, the masses of noble wood embosoming the villages, the unique beauty of the water-meadows, living sheets of emerald and silver, tinkling and sparkling, cool under the fiercest sun, brilliant under the blackest clouds.

Joe ate a sandwich and watched huge ferries slide through the night, brilliant against the black water.

He looked at me very wistfully, with the great blue eyes which shone so large and brilliant out of his white and worn face.