Is it not true that the brightest features of current literature treat of the world outside a city’s limits?
Sir Ronald was utterly insensible to her brightest smiles and glances, to her rosiest blushes and most honeyed words.
She was quite young, and had been very pretty, for the loose, unkempt hair was of brightest auburn, the dull eyes of hazel brown, and the features pretty and delicate.
The rosy light was at its brightest in Kate's face, but Sir Ronald looked as black as a thunder cloud.
As she spoke, Rose came up, her brightest smiles in full play.
Note especially the dark lanes that give to this nebula its name, Trifid, and which run through its brightest parts, breaking it into seemingly independent sections.
The green shimmer is, in fact, caused by a line in the green part of the spectrum that is always present and is always the brightest part of the spectrum of gaseous nebulæ.
Sirius, for example, the brightest of the fixed stars, is of the -1 magnitude, and such stars as Arcturus and Vega are of the 0 magnitude.
The brightest scholars do not make the greatest success in life, because alma mater usually catches them for teachers.
King James kept Sir Walter Raleigh, the brightestintellect of his time, in prison; and Claudius sent Seneca, the greatest man in his kingdom, into exile.
For many years the house in Avenue Road was, we are told, a meeting-place for all that was best and brightest in the world of modern thought and art.
The O'Kelly replied feelingly to the effect that Nelson Square, Blackfriars, would ever remain engraved upon his memory as the fairest and brightest spot on earth.
In the year 1885 a new star of the seventh magnitude suddenly appeared close to the brightest part of the nebula, and declined again to invisibility after the lapse of a few months.
Its brilliancy even then seemed to be waning; so, presumably, it was brightest at some moment between the 20th and 24th of November.
We see here the head of the comet, containing as its brightest spot what is called the nucleus, and in which the material of the comet seems to be much denser than elsewhere.
Nevertheless, the actual surface of the brightest full moon is perhaps not much brighter than the streets of London on a clear sunshiny day.
The brightest star will be identified as the vertex of a right-angled triangle, of which the line from Vega to the Pole Star is the base, as shown in Fig.
The bright star Aldebaran, the brightest star in the constellation of the Bull, has often been mistaken for the planet.
When Venus is at its brightest it can be easily seen in broad daylight with the unaided eye.
Each generation of astronomers devoted time and labour to determine the exact places of the brighteststars in the heavens.
Some are grouped together into well-marked constellations; others seem scattered promiscuously, with every degree of lustre, from the very brightest down to the faintest point that the eye can just glimpse.
Aldebaran is the brightest star in the constellation of Taurus.
We should, however, fall into error if we assumed generally that the brightest objects were those nearest to the earth.
So wreath the bowl With flowers of soul, The brightest wit can find us; We'll take a flight Towards heaven to-night, And leave dull earth behind us.
Thus oft the brightest joys we seek, Are lost when touched, and turned to pain; The flush they kindle leaves the cheek, The tears they waken long remain.
Hemasagara, or the Sea of Gold, with flowers of the brightest gold color.
Within this form there lies enshrined The purest, brightest gem of mind.
Yet it was not that nature had shed o'er the scene Her purest of crystal and brightest of green; 'Twas not her soft magic of streamlet or hill, Oh!
Then wreath the bowl With flowers of soul The brightest wit can find us; We'll take a flight Towards heaven to-night, And leave dull earth behind us.
Wreath the bowl With flowers of soul, The brightest wit can find us; We'll take a flight Towards heaven to-night, And leave dull earth behind us.
For Britain and Erin clubbed their Sees To make it a Dance of Dignities, And I saw--oh brightest of Church events!
Baroness Burdett-Coutts is now over seventy, and for fifty years her name has been one of the brightest and noblest in England, or, indeed, in the world.
My brightest spot, next to my love of old friends, is the deliciously calm, new friendship that Herbert Spencer gives me.
The world called her heartless,--but Christ must have owned her as one of his brightest jewels, almost a perfect disciple.
The reason you think so much of me is because you are the brightest young woman I ever saw.
It has already become a valuable helper to the schools, and every circle may become a recruiting station from which the colleges and universities may draw many of their best and brightest students.
The brightest star in Centaur, never visible in our northern latitudes, which has a parallax of about one second.
Cygni is a telescopic star, while Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens, is twice as far away from us.
Wine and the muses conspired to kindle the brightest flames in their breasts; nor did they only admire, but some were able to celebrate the beauty they admired, and all to judge of the merit of such compositions.
How contemptible would the brightest Circassian beauty, drest in all the jewels of the Indies, appear to my eyes!
Her undulating stars were fairer to us than the brightest constellations that ever sparkled in the azure fields above.
The sun was shining brightly, and the bracing evening air sent the blood coursing cheerily through our veins, and inspired us with the brightest hopes of the future.
At each leap of the engine our hearts rose higher, and we talked merrily of the welcome that would greet us when we dashed into Huntsville a few hours later--our enterprise done, and the brightest laurels of the guerilla Morgan far eclipsed!
The brightest things in all the house dropped from her fingers.
Lord Lindsay says, in a passage which we shall presently quote, that the most sensual as well as the most religious painters have always loved the brightest colors.
In the fifth play of this pentalogy Heywood has to cope with no such matchless models or precursors; and it is perhaps the brightest and most interesting of the five.
For him, dining-rooms 50 feet long, bottles of Madeira, broiled bones, and the brightest yellow satin were as necessary and obvious a part of the constitution of the universe as the light of the sun and the law of gravity.
At Goodwood the rooms were done up in 'brightest yellow satin,' and at Holkham the walls were covered with Genoa velvet, and there was gilding worth a fortune on 'the roofs of all the rooms and the doors.
This I heard at the Green Basket, the celebrated cafe near the Pont Neuf, which was frequented by all the brightest spirits in Paris, and where I had the audacity to appear sometimes, not in the character of actor, but of audience.
Thy lover's vows are lither; The brightest dream of youth decays, The fairest roses wither.
And if I breathe the name of Sanzio (The brightest of Italian gentlemen), It is that love casts out my fear--and so I claim with him a kindredship.
It pleases Time to fold his wings Around our best andbrightest things; He'll mar your damask cheek, as now He stamps his mark upon my brow.
Bring no vain fancies hither; The brightestdreams of youth decay, The fairest roses wither.
Hundreds of tapers burnt upon golden candlesticks, and shed a light like the brightest day.
And the birch rustled its leaves, and said: 'I have served you longer than I can say, and you never tied a bit of twine even round my branches; and the dear children bound them up with theirbrightest ribbons.
His feathers were sky-blue and gold, his feet and his beak of such glittering rubies that no one could bear to look at them, his eyes made the brightest diamonds look dull, and on his head he wore a crown.
Whilst at luncheon he suddenly spied a little monkey of the brightest green sitting on a tree and gazing so tenderly at him that he felt quite moved.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brightest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
