Planchette himself slipped the piece of skin between the metal plates of the all-powerful press; and, brimful of the certainty of a scientific conviction, he worked the crank energetically.
She hid her face in her mother's lap for an instant; and then she lifted it up, as brimful of the light of happiness as is the cup of a water-lily of the sun's radiance.
Take it all in all, his was a happy life, brimful of work and enjoyment.
Mulvaney is the finest creation of Kipling, and most of his stories are brimful of Irish wit.
Mrs. Ogilvie's was also short, and brimful of worldliness.
He did not notice the shabby dress nor the torn stocking; he only saw the eager little face, the eyes brimful with love; he only felt the beating of the warm, warm heart.
Sibyl's letter to her father was short, badly spelt, and brimful of love.
Were I to eat, drink or speak with such a devilish mouth, I might as well eat and drink out of a can or vessel brimful of devils, and thus become partaker with the devils who dwell in the Jews and spit at the Precious Blood of Christ.
Says the Spirit: Give him quits, Fill itbrimful as God bids.
Nan followed, looking very important, with a large roll in her hand, and Demi escorted Daisy, both evidently brimful of some delightful secret.
Only Sancho Panza withdrew, that he might get a chance to load himself brimful of food; for he had heard his master once say that a knight errant's squire should eat until he could hold no more.
Brimful of curiosity, he read it through and learned that it contained the bemoanings of a rejected lover.
So she shook her untidy mane, and looked at me with eyes that were brimful of fun and naughtiness.
Marriage and love were incidentally brought up, when, lo and behold, I found he was so brimful on these, that I was obliged to ask him to forbear, after a few specimens.
As he was about to address her eagerly, he was checked by observing the signs of sorrow and discomposure in her pale cheeks, trembling lips, and brimful eyes.
Henri encouraged her, while Helene's eyes were brimful of tears.
It is essentially a plebeian instinct, a relic from barbaric days when the world was brimful of curiosities for the twilight intelligence of recently-born man.
On the morrow I was brimful of influenza and chill contracted in the night the dug-out fell in, and was slacking on the bed when a report came from the 82nd Battery R.
It was brimful of soldiers and Arabs, and quantities of stores and planks stood around half-erected buildings.
The meaning of the tides being spring tides was that the jug was brimful of milk; but when he sent word that the tides were neap tides, I knew that some of the milk had been taken.
Then she took a large round loaf, and she prepared a fowl, and put all over it chopped eggs, and poured out a jug brimful of sweetened milk.
My dear Mr. Clement:--I am going to write to you this beautiful morning because my heart is brimful of happiness and I want you and all my dear friends in the Transcript office to rejoice with me.
But, as you know, my heart is usually brimful of happiness.
The Brooklyn Eagle says: "It is a strong tale brimful of incident from the moment when Cardinal Richelieu dispatches the redoubtable D'Artagnan on his king-making mission to Portugal.
Brimful of merry sport is he, A lad of fifteen summers, With velvet lip still smooth and fair, But a fist that awes all comers.
It says the wood is beautiful, The blossoms fair to see; It says the brook tells merrily A little tale of glee, And birds, brimful of melody, Do sing their songs for me.
Have you seen of late a bouncing boy Brimful of merry sport?
And from the depths of blackness, he cried to her in agony of remorse, and from the light she looked down on him with eyes brimful of yearning love and tenderness, for that a gulf divided them.
And presently as he stood, his broad back set to the bole of a tree, his blue eyes lifted heavenwards brimful of dreams, he brake forth into a song he had made, lying sleepless upon his bed to do it.
Now, looking up, he saw her lips curved and scarlet, and her eyes brimful of laughter, and fain would he have taken up the brush yet dared not.
For despite its incoherence, the disconnected threads joined together make up a tale they can understand; though so strange, so brimful of atrocities, as to seem incredible.
Ellen's heart had beenbrimful and ready to run over for some time, but the tears could not come then.
Your description of the porter and the carpet-bags prepares me for a first-rate facetious novel, brimful of the richest humor, on which I have no doubt you are engaged.
I walk about brimfulof letters, facetious descriptions, touching morsels, and pathetic friendships, but can't for the soul of me uncork myself.
He was then in his prime, and looked brimful of energy.
Mona is down at the gate waiting for him, evidently brimful of information.
With heart brimful of gnawing grief, He to Sir Charles did go, And sat him down upon a stool, And tears began to flow.
Sir Canterlone then bended low, With heart brimful of woe; He journeyed to the castle-gate, And to Sir Charles did go.
