97 Verbs to Use for the Word brightness
More regular, more reverent are they than we are; and if we men but prayed as the women pray, no shadow would dim the brightness of Islam.
It is an ungallant question, but the answer would be still more ungallant were it not that Miss RICHINGS is an artist; and with artists the crown of youth never loses the brightness of its laurel leaves.
My gentle bride had been subdued into a silence, not sullen, but so sad that when her wistful eyes followed my every movement as I prepared to start, I could willingly, to bring back their brightness, have renounced the promise of the day.
Thy cheek is lovely as the morning rose Or bright carnation, and thy ruby blood Gives it the shining brightness of the sun.
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
AN UNDESERVING FAVOURITE Is a piece of base metal with the King's stamp upon it, a fog raised by the sun to obscure his own brightness.
"Christ, the light of the world, rose from the tomb on Easter morning, like a radiant sun, trampling over darkness and shedding His brightness upon the earth.
"Heaven would not dull its brightness with those, nor would lower hell receive them.
Her face had hardly altered; and yet Rudolph, for the first time in many days, had caught the fleeting brightness of compassion.
She lifted her lids again and he saw the brightness of anger.
He scarcely observed that Don Camillo Monforte was still present, nor did he note the brightness and joy which glowed in the eyes of the ardent Violetta.
It was a surprising thing to see him walking down the garden; it was still more surprising to observe the brightness of his eye and the easy confidence of his bearing.
how they jumped up and down!" He pressed his hand over his eyes as if to shut out the brightness of the roomthe glaring gas and brilliant decorationsthe shining bottles and the many tables which would not keep still.
The gentle fire of Saint Peter now began to assume an awful brightness, such as the planet Jupiter might assume, if Mars and it were birds, and exchanged the colour of their plumage.
The clock struck ten, and Etta's eyes recovered their brightness.
The most beautiful arched form is thus obtained, and this, together with the dyeing of the eyelids, increases uncommonly the brightness of the eye.
Maudie's tear-washed eyes were regaining a dangerous brightness.
How well she knew the cool brightness of his eyes, as he wrote!
There are strangely grouped ruins, the remains of arcades, half-unroofed cupolas, columns without capitals, the shafts of which have retained all the brightness of their enamelling; then a long row of elliptical porticoes closing in one side of the vast quadrilateral.
A light had come into the world, and the dark passages of the underground cemeteries were illuminated by it, and manifest its brightness.
Too shorttoo shortsoon comes the chilly morn, To shake from love's boughs all their sleep-born bloom, And wake my heart back to its bitter doom, Sending me through the land down-cast, forlorn, Whilst thou, my Beautiful, art far away, Bearing the brightness from my joyless day.
Around him shall shine a mighty brightness, and he shall make life everlasting, incorruptible, and immortal, and the dead shall rise again.'
This, then, may be called a qualitative estimate of relative brightnesses; but I wish now to introduce to you what was novel last year, a quantitative method of measuring the brightness of any part.
The whole factory was at that hour lighted up, electric lamps cast the brightness of daylight over it, while the stir of work ascended and the walls shook amid the rumbling of machinery.
'Let the sun come upon him,' she said; 'let him feel the brightness of the light,'and with her soft hands she drew him out of the shade of the twilight to where the brightness of the day fell like a smile upon the flowers.