I gazed at one and another, as we stood in the doorway, our eyes still half dazzled by the glare of light and by the brilliance of the assembled company, but I could by no means distinguish the King from any of the rest.
They tell me Western flowers have a brilliance and a fragrance which the East, with all its advantages, cannot duplicate.
It was as though certain storehouses of brilliance in her being, of which she had been unaware, had been suddenly opened to her.
He approved the flaring sunset and he approved this discreet retreat--the hushed and perfumed air of worship no less than the stir and brilliance outside.
At such times we floated in a mirage where each leaf and frond and webbed liana with its mirrored image had an unnaturalbrilliance and precision, like a labored canvas or a view seen through a stereoscope.
Thou shouldst die as he dies, For whom none sheddeth tears; Filling thine eyes And fulfilling thine ears With the brilliance .
The pony, too, in anticipation of winter, was beginning to put on his rough coat, and his harness had long since lost any brilliance it might have once possessed.
Alice had not the aplomb of a fine lady, nor the brilliance of a clever woman; but nature had given her a stamp of genuineness which is sometimes effaced by the attrition of society.
Then the extra brilliance vanished, and suddenly the moving light was no longer white, but reddish.
Its brilliance became more and more intense, then it dimmed.
He hasn't got my brillianceof intellect; but he has some wonderfully fine qualities.
As for Spennie, the brilliance of his happy grin dazzled all beholders.
Big yellow eyes blinked unemotionally at the glare of the torch, and I cut down its brilliance with a twist of the polarizer lens.
That the brilliance of Buonaparte's prospects finally dissipated her scruples may be frankly admitted.
He suddenly noticed the delicacy of her tiny wrist as her hand paused at the edge of her plate, and the brilliance of her eyes--large and greenish-grey, with a marked black line round the iris.
Then a sudden veil fell across the clearness of her eyes, which had the preternatural size and brilliance of disease.
As I repelled this fearful thought in a manner highly fortifying, the tender hue flowed back again into her famished cheeks and lips, and a softer brilliance glistened from the depth of her dark eyes.
I told her that it was no trifle, but a most important thing, to abandon wealth, and honour, and the brilliance of high life, and be despised by every one for such abundant folly.
The spacious room was filled with the brilliance and fragrance of three giant fir-trees.
Leo nearly crushed his hand in his own, but he hadn't the courage to meet the eyes that rested on him with their fiery brilliance melting into tenderness.
John Castlemaine had been at the meeting also, and while not a believer in all his political doctrines, was also carried away by the brilliance of Leicester's speech.
For, shortly after her seventeenth birthday, Maggie Oliphant met a girl whose beauty and brilliance were equal to her own, whose nature was stronger and who had been carefully trained in heart and mind while Maggie had been neglected.
Her own happiness caused her to lower her eyes; her joy was so dazzling that for a moment she felt she must shade their brilliance even from Annabel's gaze.
Nobody thought Priscilla clever; she had no brillianceabout her in any way, but she had a great gift for acquiring knowledge.
His success, if not of great material benefit, was at least cheering from its brilliance and dash.
From the German trenches a thin luminous thread stole up into the darkening sky, leaned over, drooped, and burst into dazzling brilliance over the British parapet.
The mighty brilliance of the ruler supported Zarathrustra, "in establishing the law and making it highly esteemed.
It was the brilliance or majesty of the king which Cyrus is represented as beholding.
We have seen that the metals, owing to the brilliance inherent in them, belonged in the ideas of the Iranians to the good spirits.
There hung an enormous brooding beauty everywhere, a hint of the sinister in it that only the brilliance of the blazing stars relieved.
The hours stretch themselves queerly; last night's sunset might be days ago; sunrise and the brilliance coming seem in another week, part of dim futurity like children's holidays.
The dark, tapering trees in the brilliance of the sunshine held a hint of sadness like the presence of a grave; appropriate to the scene where that spirit of fire and air, the poet Shelley, had been sacrificed to the waves.
He had marked the brilliance of the eyes and the strained air of excitement about him, the attentive care of his valet, and now this sudden look of prostration.
A blue haze, liquid in the golden light, quivered before her vision like a thing alive with iridescent wings outspread in the untempered sunlight that poured itself out upon the earth with a brilliance hurtful to the eyes.
The beauty of the day, the brilliance of the sunshine called her to go out into it and enjoy the morning in its early freshness.
She complained of the vulgarity of German life, and compared it bitterly with the brilliance of Paris, where she had spent a number of years.
Lawson painted very low in tone, and they both saw the emerald of the grass like dark velvet, while the brilliance of the sky turned in their hands to a brooding ultramarine.
The blackening of tan, that orange pigment used by Koriusai and many other artists, can be removed and the original brilliance brought back.
For in many cases a little of the colour will come out in the course of the process, and the brilliance of the print will suffer slightly.
In the best of these he shakes off his trifling mood, and, as in Plate 51, creates designs whose stark brilliance and originality of composition is unsurpassed.
It included chiefly theatrical portraits, all done with a peculiar hardness of line and cold brilliance of colour, and printed as a rule very skilfully.
The gayeties of the table were abandoned for the brilliance of the salons beyond.
The clear brilliance of the house faded into a golden gloom.
The hateful mist, which had so greatly depressed us, had disappeared; leaving the face of the country visible in all the brilliance of early spring.
The house was one of those big black West-End houses, whose outward darkness and dismalness is in direct ratio to their inward brilliance and splendor.
