A very brilliant work; every page in it displays the dramatic talent of the author and his capacity for writing smart dialogue.
Eleanor still coached a number of the less brilliant lights of the college.
They wore long hair, slouched hats, brilliant cravats, and lived like the birds of heaven.
In his opinion it had the most brilliant history in Europe, and had always been free.
They were his mother's former associates, his own school-mates and afterwards his pupils; they formed the dark background against which the society he had just quitted, stood out like a brilliant picture.
This was not a very brilliant piece of wit especially as it emanated from a Kalmar student who was thereupon asked "whether there were no gutters in Kalmar?
Lafayette's acquaintance, "Mad Anthony" Wayne, had taken it in a most brilliant assault.
By brilliant strategy he had gained enough victory to rekindle hope after hope seemed dead; and never, even when the outlook was darkest, had the British been able to get full control of the Hudson River.
He made at least one journey in the brilliant retinue of the king.
Both on the Western frontier and at the nation's capital he met Indian chiefs with garments more brilliant and manners quite as dignified as kings ever possessed.
Whether it appeared as brilliant to the guest of honor, accustomed from [Pg 263]youth to pageants at Versailles, as it did to his hosts we may doubt.
It has been said that the entire merit of this brilliant expedition is due, not so much to the brave man who conducted it, as to Sir George Cockburn, at whose suggestion it was undertaken.
The light is not indeed of the most brilliant nature, but it is at least better than none; and as they have fir-trees in abundance within their reach, there is no danger of their oil being quickly exhausted.
Such is a plain impartial account of the inroad upon Washington, an affair than which the whole war produced none more brilliantor more daring.
In its material results the Plantation of Ulster was undoubtedly a brilliant success.
To such a mind the shallow, brilliant adventurer came as a relief.
No shadow of his doom had fallen over the brilliant favourite when he set out in August to take command of the expedition.
The brilliant circle of young nobles whose friendship he had shared was broken up in 1601 by the political storm which burst in a mad struggle of the Earl of Essex for power.
Both had been young when they wedded; the passionate girl soon learned to hate her cold and formal husband; and she yielded readily enough to the seductions of the brilliant favourite.
Think of the brilliant Queen, whose glories our greatest poets were not ashamed to sing, with the Tudor masterfulness in her, and not a little of the Tudor grossness and passion, and remember the blots that stained her glories.
Probably during that period his personal attraction, and his reputation as a brilliant leader, had led these rough soldiers to attach themselves to his service, and to be ready to forsake home and kindred in order to fight beside him.
No doubt, the luxury and splendour of Solomon's brilliant reign had an under side of oppression, even though forced labour was not exacted from Israelites (1 Kings ix.
His father weakly loved the brilliant blackguard, and would fain have had him back, but was restrained by a sense of kingly duty.
He feels that, after such a fall, no more of the brilliant exploits of former days are possible.
That is a much less brilliant and much more old-fashioned explanation than the new one, but perhaps it is none the worse for that.
His marriage with Jezebel, and the flood of Baal worship which that let loose over the land, are told with horror, in preparation for Elijah's appearance like a dark background that throws up a brilliant figure.
He recognized Boabdil himself, by his splendid armor, the magnificent caparison of his steed, and the brilliant guard which surrounded him.
King Ferdinand, however, was influenced by the counsel of Don Diego de Merlo, and was eager to strike a brilliant and decided blow.
War was the normal state of Granada and its inhabitants; the common people were subject at any moment to be summoned to the field, and all the upper class was a brilliant chivalry.
He was engaged to be married to a fair and noble lady of Baeza, and repaired to that city to celebrate his nuptials, escorted by a brilliant array of the best horsemen of his garrison.
The cavaliers, accustomed to mountain-warfare, considered themselves and their horses equal to any wild and rugged expedition, and were flushed with the idea of terminating their foray by a brilliant assault upon Malaga.
They did not rush on fiercely to the fight, nor make a brilliant onset like the Moorish and Spanish troops, but they went into the fight deliberately and persisted obstinately and were slow to find out when they were beaten.
Of the brilliant array of Moorish chivalry which had descended so confidently into Andalusia, not more than two hundred escaped.
It was a gallant and splendid army, comprising the flower of Spanish chivalry, and poured forth in brilliant array from the gates of Seville bearing the great standard of that ancient and renowned city.
The splendid armor of Don Juan and the sumptuous caparison of his steed rendered him a brilliant object of attack.
It shed a momentary but brilliant light over all the plain and on every rock and cliff.
They were richly armed and clothed in the mostbrilliant colors, and the caparisons of their steeds flamed with gold and embroidery.
There is poetic richness in this brilliant composition; a beauty of sentiment and grace in every line.
The opening scene is certainly one of the happiest Mr. Rice has written, while the climaxing third act is a brilliant piece of character study.
The Tsar was so great that no one thought of his serfs; the sun was so brilliant that you could not see the motes.
The opening chapters showed that his tale was likely to be clever; bold in thought and brilliant in style.
Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of Frederick the Great, was one of the mostbrilliant soldiers of the day.
At an events, the sad waste of position and opportunity, and the heavy loss in brilliant effort and valuable lives, caused equal dissatisfaction and gloom.
General Hood had forced their highest admiration, and bought their warmest wishes, with his brilliant courageous and his freely-offered blood.
There was no doubt of the great success of her first experiment; and the people augured from it a series of brilliant and successful essays upon the water.
The dissatisfaction was universal and outspoken; nor was it relieved by the several brilliant episodes of Gauley and Cotton Hill, that General Floyd managed to throw into his dark surroundings.
And this opinion was to be strengthened, from time to time, by the brilliant flashes of naval daring that came to illumine some of the darkest hours of the war.
Many a poor fellow who would have achieved a brilliant future perished mid the mud of Manassas, or slept under the snowy slopes of the western mountains.
One morning, news reached Richmond of a brilliantvictory at Donelson, and it was received with wild rejoicing.
That hue and cry against it--which a brilliant success would partially paralyze--soon gathered force in its intervals of enforced inaction.
Squib, picture and poem filled Randolph's letters, as brilliant flashes did his conversation.
Efficiently directed, it can contribute to the most brilliant results, and badly handled, can thwart the most perfectly matured plans of genius, or generalship.
She was dressed all in red; the glory of her white neck, her brilliant hair, and her blue eyes rose out of the scarlet setting.
The wind and the rain ceased; gradually the storm passed onwards, and a few stars shone out here and there, gradually heralding the brilliant dawn.
But as he spoke there broke forth a blaze of brilliant light, which at once shot up to the heavens, illuminating a few clouds that were floating gently along, apparently near the earth.
The sun sank in glory, the hues of the brilliant west faded dimly on his aching sight, and from the east over the wooded hills the yellow moon arose, dim at first, and seemingly striving to maintain the waning daylight.
True, the power of the English was immeasurably more concentrated and effective, and their resolute and steady valour more highly appreciated than the brilliant but eccentric character of the French.
The huge column moved slowly and silently onwards, aided by the light of a brilliant moon.
As the sun sank, the heavens became one mass of gold, almost too brilliant to look upon!
The Brahmin, however, escaped down the narrow turning, and the brilliant party rode on, laughing heartily at their amusement.
Napoleon's most brilliant victories, and thought so by himself.
On the 5th to Dover through a lovely green country; took steamer there to Ostende; but was ill all the way, and saw nothing but a basin; spent two days at a queer hotel near the fine promenade, which was a very foreign and brilliant scene.
But Helwyze's heart knew nothing of the divine quality of forgiveness; for his love there was no resurrection; and he only valued the power he could exercise over a brilliant woman, and the intellectual entertainment she could bring him.
The child clung to Anna with trust and affection; but with her quick fancy and lively spirit, she admired the brilliant qualities of Louisa.
The brilliant particles are numerous, but so small that I have to pick them up with a straw moistened in my mouth.
A brilliant beacon, of which I am hardly conscious, flares in my brain.
He distrusted the brilliant orator, who found more difficulty in winning him over than did the simpler and more direct type of speaker.
The impressive service of the French rabbi was followed by a brilliant Thanksgiving sermon by Chaplain Voorsanger, who had been invited to come to Paris for the occasion.
Jacob Marcus, now Rabbi and Instructor at the Hebrew Union College, volunteered in the Ohio National Guard and won his lieutenancy by brilliant work in the ranks.
A strangely-embroidered robe fell over his shoulders, covered with hieroglyphic symbols; the embroidery was in black and gold, upon a variegated ground of brilliant colors.
I sat in my hotel window looking out uponbrilliant Paris, which had, in a moment, recovered all its gaiety, and more than its accustomed bustle.
Everyplace was animated with music voices, brilliant colors, flashing jewels, the hilarity of extemporized comedy, and all the spirited incidents of a cleverly sustained masquerade.
When this is over, I shall be at liberty, and will myself introduce you to the brilliant but comparatively quiet routine of society.
The brilliant moonlight revealed everything, and cast sharp, black shadows of wheel, and bar, and spring, on the pavement.
I thought, even at that tragic moment, that she prolonged the show, with a feminine delight in these brilliant toys.
But the classic civilizations of Greece and Rome in their most robust and brilliant periods knew little or nothing of romantic love in connection with normal sexual relationships culminating in marriage.
The most brilliant and successful exponent of the new revolutionary ideas--making Corinne and her prototype seem dim and ineffectual--was undoubtedly George Sand.
For Christianity is precisely the most brilliant proof the world has ever seen of the truth that immorality cannot so be suppressed.
The Catholic Church founded no families, but its democratic constitution opened a career to men of all classes, and the most brilliant sons of the Church were often of the lowliest social rank.
Quantities of noblemen have been the guests of the South lately, and isn't General Wolseley, the most brilliant officer of the British Army, with our General Lee now?
She had lost some of her brilliant color, and her expression was more settled, it had less of the butterfly brightness.
Which she has never seen yet," supplemented Evilena, as Judithe received this not very cordial compliment with a little bow and a brilliant smile.
Her beautiful eyes were not so slumbrous as usual; they were brilliant as from some inward fever, and, though she smiled and met his sombre gaze with a challenge, she smothered a sigh under her light words.
But all the blue sky and brilliant sunshine above could not save it from a suggestion of autumn, and the shadows lengthening along the river were in perfect keeping with the entire picture--a picture of perpetual afternoon.
The two left the hotel, and passed through a tangle of narrow, forlorn looking streets; then they turned into a cellar opening, with dirty wooden steps and a glass-paneled door upon which was painted some Chinese characters in brilliant red.
From somewhere in the hall above, unseen by him, a brilliant light was burning; and it fell upon the flat space at the top of the steps unwaveringly.
The walls shone with mirrors; the brilliant lights were reflected on the polished bar.
Never had I met a man who showed so many brilliant sides of character; he could talk about anything, and in a way which indicated a mastery of the matter.
I thought that, it occurred to me that I'd like you to know I had you in mind at the time, and so I stopped in one of those brilliant little shops on the plaza, where they keep everything they have in the windows, and bought that.
To begin, I must tell you that when I was a boy preparing for college I had for a chum a brilliant fun-loving fellow named Hawley Hicks, concerning whose future various prophecies had been made.
A story of real life, true love, and intrigue in the brilliant capital of Prussia.
The Young Turks proclaimed that they were going to weld the Ottoman Empire into one homogeneous and harmonious whole, and by a piece of brilliant paradoxical reasoning Germany determined that it was she who was going to do it for them.
And her diplomacy was not less than brilliant simply from the facts that on the one hand it soothed Turkey instead of irritating, and on the other it went absolutely unnoticed for a long time.
