Alexander was conspicuous both by the brightness of his weapons and by his extraordinary display of audacity.
His first sensation he describes as one of surprise at the brightness and elegance of the whole interior, and in part of disappointment at the apparent want of magnitude.
Others again, little coquettes with village green, white palings everywhere, bright gravel roads, and an irrepressible air of brightness and gaiety.
The bloom, the smiles, the brightness were all gone now.
After awhile the brightness died from Ruby's eyes, the little face looked tired and wan.
The gas had been lighted and it threw a flood of brightness over every object in the room.
You are nursing phantasies,' said she, 'that are destroying the brightness of your youth.
The happiest and most prosperous must have their seasons of gloom and darkness, and woe be to those from whose souls no rays of brightness emanate to gild those darkened hours.
There was a lambent brightness in his eyes, a mantling bloom upon his cheek, that indicated indwelling light and conscious youth.
To him whom I have driven from his native land, shorn of the brightness of his manhood--Oh!
One evening, as it fell asleep in his arms, he was alarmed at the scarlet brightness of its complexion, and the burning heat of its skin.
Her eye of glassy brightness turned on me with such a look of woe and remorse, it cut me to the heart.
Away from the brightness of the kitchen the harassed, frightened look returned.
Kathleen was too happy in her friend's returning brightness to be able to retort.
Send them Thy heavenly light that shines in the eternal brightnessof Thy countenance and make plain to them the way of salvation.
All her brightness had gone and she moved as if about to leave him.
Branches whose shadow grows along my wall, Sweet souls scarce open to the breath of day, Still dazzled with the brightness of your dawn.
Some of the sacred hymns of the Rigveda were made by her and have come down these thirty centuries as a beautiful testimony to her intellectual brightness and aspiration, and as an evidence of the honour in which she was held.
It is sad that she, who was so full of intellectual brightnessand so beautiful in Christian life, should have been taken away by death in the bloom of life.
But, sad as was the history of those years, the succeeding two taught the poor boy to regard them as the vanished brightness of a dream.
Child as he was, the succeeding darkness preserved long in brightness the memory of the last look from her fast glazing eyes, the last words from her dying lips, the last touch of her already death-cold hand.
A glance whose brightnessmelted into tears was her only answer.
And as I looked upon him, his stature grew larger and his raiment brighter, till the brightness thereof filled the sky, and set it all in a flame.
His countenance also shone as the sun: pity and sorrow were there, but pity and sorrow swallowed up in the brightness and glory of joy and triumph; and the sick man's face gave back the brightness.
Likewise also the people which were with us (for there was a great multitude) marvelled at the brightness of his countenance; and running to Jesus, they saluted him as a prophet.
So I thought how the same moon had shone down with the same brightness yesternight upon my Master in Gethsemane.
Also there came into my mind the words that he had spoken, when this brightness had been upon his countenance: how he had then prophesied, and more than once, that he should be slain; but we had never believed him.
There was in his countenance even such a brightnessas we had noted when he came down from the mountain with Peter and James and John.
Thus, also for this process, to obtainbrightness and cheap effect, the illustrator of to-day often avoids backgrounds altogether.
Students should notice the variety of "colour" and delicacy of line, also the brightness and evenness of the process block throughout.
A question of comparison was the relative wear and brightness of the metals.
Poor Bobby she included in the brightness of her mood, but evidently only because he happened to be in the circle of it.
The brightness of the light has intensified the blackness of the shade.
So will your faces reflect thebrightness of His face.
To his surprise, however, she suddenly broke through them, and advancing to him, with a dangerous brightness in her beautiful eyes, held out her slim hand.
The journalist was troubled in his conscience; the expressman took refuge in an official reticence; the lady coughed slightly, and drew nearer to the fire with a vague but safe compliment to its brightness and comfort.
The room they had entered had little of comfort and brightness in it except the fire of pine logs which roared and crackled in the adobe chimney.
The stone houses of the city and her colossal ruins glowed with a brightness almost overpowering.
With all its brightness no woman worthy of the name but would have winced with womanly instincts of aversion and repugnance from his glances.
No other light, save the moist glimmer of the stars whose mist-veiled brightness heralded the approach of a tempest, fell on the chaos of undefined forms.
Everything around him seemed to fade, but the terrible being still held his gaze with those deep and marvellous eyes, that had all the brightness and life of the sapphire seas.
The stars sparkled over the dark, towering cypresses, which crowned the surrounding eminences, and the palaces and ruins upon them stood forth in distinctness of splendour or desolation against the luminous brightness of the moonlit sky.
I came near, and, taking her small hand in mine, I told her she was a mild star of brightness and beauty, and that I preferred her to all the princesses in the world for my wife.
And among them was one great snow-white bird of dazzling brightness that excelled all the others in size and beauty and voice, chanting strains of surpassing sweetness.
In auroral displays thebrightness often varies greatly over the illuminated area and changes rapidly.
Far away to the east, somebrightness entered into the paling of the sky.
When he dipped his hand, water piled up against his wrist and a streak of brightness trailed away behind.
But Doug went overboard with diving goggles, and he says there's a column of brightness as far down as he can make out.
At that edge of brightness the thronging creatures were splashing in a mad frenzy.
And it was dazzled by the brightnessto which it had been driven.
Deirdre said, "The brightnessis really smaller now!
Then he saw another brightness at the eastern horizon, but that was in the sky.
Then a vague brightness appeared on the sea, at the limit of vision.
And, finally, hiding his brightness under the form of a shepherd, did not Apollo tend the flocks of Admetus?
For a most beautiful lady, come to my private chamber I know not whence, presented herself before my eyes, enveloped in such dazzling light that scarcely could my sight endure the brightness thereof.
When the electricity retarded by water was discharged between pieces of charcoal, it was exceedingly luminous and bright upon both surfaces of the charcoal, resembling the brightness of the voltaic discharge on such surfaces.
When mercury constitutes one or both of the surfaces used, the brightness of the spark is greatly increased.
I was still staring when she put one foot through the open window; still staring when the other foot followed; still staring when she waved her hand gleefully at me and sprang out--out into the sunny brightness of the hot summer noon.
The sudden stagnation that had fallen was now threaded by a weak draught of air out of the east where the brightness of the new weather had first shown.
A kind of brightness sat in the east, and the horizon opened to its normal confines; but it was a desolate sea, nothing in sight save the ship, though I eagerly and anxiously scanned the whole circle of the waters.
For two years he had silently adored Miss Peek, worshipping her from a spiritual distance through which her attractions took on stellar brightness and mystery.
There was the glassy brightness of recent fever in his eyes.
