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Sentences starting with brilliant

Brilliant passages could not save it; and it was plain enough that he must ripen into something better before the world would give him the reception which surely awaited him if he should find his true destination. [6]

Sentences ending with brilliant

The two men were drawn to each other; Irving greatly admired the "noble hearted, manly, spirited little fellow, with a mind as generous as his fancy is brilliant. [4]
Indeed the games this time were more than brilliant. [10]
I do not think my conversation with Miss Treherne was brilliant. [11]
Perhaps it was the last, but I remember no festival more brilliant. [10]
At Erfurt her success had been brilliant. [2]
I have made so many people believe that I am brilliant. [11]
Is there nothing outside of that envied circle which you make so brilliant? [4]
All the materials of his dress were rich, and all the colors brilliant. [5]
Did she think of him in surroundings so brilliant? [4]
His chances were not brilliant. [11]

Short sentences using brilliant

Napoleon's position is most brilliant. [2]
A brilliant morning, and frosty. [5]
It was brilliant. [5]
Brilliant! [10]

Sentences containing brilliant two or more times

There are so many distinguished people and brilliant people--though the distinguished are not always brilliant nor the brilliant distinguished--and everybody is so kind and hospitable, and Rodney is such a favorite. [4]
He could not but own that she was born for a brilliant destiny,--that no ball-room would throw a light from its chandeliers too strong for her,--that no circle would be too brilliant for her to illuminate by her presence. [6]
Full of danger, but brilliant, brilliant and bold! [11]

More example sentences with the word brilliant in them

When you finished your breakfast at ten o'clock and went out, the sunshine was brilliant, the weather balmy and delicious, and the mud and slush deep and all-pervading. [5]
I have known you long, and I am not ignorant of all your brilliant qualities, but you must not speak to me of love. [6]
Some thought he would succeed, others that he would be a brilliant failure. [6]
Chateaux and lands would be hers again, and she would go back again to that brilliant life among the great to which she was born, for which nature had fitted her. [9]
After that, a world of tumbling and prodigious clouds came drifting up out of the West and took to themselves a wonderfully rich and brilliant green color--the decided green of new spring foliage. [5]
It was a wonderfully still, beautiful night; the moon and stars were so brilliant, that our road and the landscape were lighted up almost with the brightness of day. [10]
It is no wonder, therefore, that he was not a popular favorite, although recognized as having very brilliant qualities. [6]
After the junction with the army of the brilliant admiral and Petersburg hero Wittgenstein, this mood and the gossip of the staff reached their maximum. [2]
It was brilliant with sunshine, and the vast smooth bulge seemed hardly five hundred yards away. [5]
Paris is brilliant with cafes: all the world frequents them to sip coffee (and too often absinthe), read the papers, and gossip over the news; take them away, as all travelers know, and Paris would not know itself. [4]
An elegant carriage, with a coachman in a wonderful cape, seated on a box lofty as a throne, and wearing a hat-band as brilliant as a coronet, stopped at the portal of Madam Delacoste's establishment. [6]
As when a window is opened a whiff of fresh air from the fields enters a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of success reached Kutuzov's cheerless staff with the galloping advent of all these brilliant young men. [2]
The guests in whom we may have some interest were in the mean time making ready for the party, which was expected to be a brilliant one; for 24 Carat Place was well known for the handsome style of its entertainments. [6]
The little woman who sat retiringly at one end of the seat was all in brilliant colors from bonnet to flounce, like a paroquet, red and green predominating. [9]
It was Nancy who conceived the brilliant idea--the more delightful because she said nothing about it to me--of making use of Sophy. [9]
The brilliant illumination which usually shone through the darkness would have attracted the attention of the Alexandrians. [10]
The gazettes from which the old prince first heard of the defeat at Austerlitz stated, as usual very briefly and vaguely, that after brilliant engagements the Russians had had to retreat and had made their withdrawal in perfect order. [2]
The cheerfulness, with which she had met the dwarf, was insincere, and had resembled the brilliant colors of the rainbow, which gleam over the stagnant waters of a bog. [10]
Do you know what an impudent thing the managers did the other night in protesting against the raising of the lights by which the house was made brilliant and the cheap illusions of the stage were destroyed? [4]
Most of them were personally known to Cleopatra who, to their mutual pleasure and advantage, had measured her intellectual powers with the most brilliant minds of their body. [10]
If now he were only going back with his fortune recovered, with brilliant prospects to spread before her, and could come into the house in his old playful manner, with the assumed deference of the master, and say: "Well, Edith dear, the storm is over. [4]
The magnificent apartments were made as light as day by thousands of wax-candles in silver and bronze candelabra; costly Gobelin tapestry and purple Flanders hangings covered the walls, and the bright hues of the paintings were reflected from the polished floors, flooded with brilliant light. [10]
In the afternoon we sighted Suva, the capital of the group, and threaded our way into the secluded little harbor--a placid basin of brilliant blue and green water tucked snugly in among the sheltering hills. [5]
Why, indeed, might we not feel pity for a woman whose brilliant career had been so suddenly extinguished in misfortune and crime? [5]
No doubt, if we had now known her for the first time, we should have admired her exceedingly, and probably have accounted her thrice happy in filling so well her brilliant position. [4]
And, by the way, what have you done about that brilliant Mr. Coombes of the 'Johnstown Ray,' who says 'the Northeastern Railroads give us a pretty good government'? [9]
She is in Washington, apparently the happy favorite of a brilliant society. [5]
The French ambassador was there, and a foreign prince of the blood who had of late become a frequent visitor of hers, and many brilliant ladies and gentlemen. [2]
Peter Irving, who was then in Edinburgh, was impressed with the brilliant talent of the editor of the "Review," disguised as it was by affectation, but he said he "would not give the Minstrel for a wilderness of Jeffreys. [4]
This Delancy party was made up for reasons which are well understood, and it seemed to have been admirably well selected; and yet the moment it assembled it was evident that it could not be very brilliant or very enjoyable. [4]
When the dessert was finally eaten, and after sunset, in the brilliant light of the lamps and candles, greater attention was paid to the mixing vessels, all remained silent to listen to his fervid speech. [10]
When the summer was come he rode forth with hawk and hound, one day, in a brilliant company of his nobles. [5]
The immense house was brilliant with lights shining through its lofty windows. [2]
Crowning the shadows was a splendid helmet of light, rich with the dyes of the morning; the pines were touched with a brilliant if austere warmth. [11]
She was a warlike power, and inscribed upon her banners many a brilliant fight with Genoese and Turks. [5]
And as Philip walked home, thinking how brilliant Evelyn had been in their little talk, he began to dramatize the excursion. [4]
It was completely wainscoted with wood, and from the centre of the richly-carved ceiling a strange picture gleamed in brilliant hues. [10]
It was a very brilliant dinner, but Philip could not have given much account of it. [4]
What a brilliant, versatile intellect must animate this remarkable creature! [10]
There was a vast multitude of people in the brilliant place. [5]
Several authors have used the strongest expressions in describing these resplendent colours, which they compare with those of the most brilliant birds. [1]
His simple but upright mind felt that she was right, so far as he was concerned, and she was more beautiful in her anger than he had seen her since the brilliant days of her youthful pride. [10]
We looked out upon this sublime spectacle from under the arch of a brilliant rainbow! [5]
Her eyes fell upon only a vast, brilliant emptiness--there were not forty people in the house! [5]
Barbara drew herself up, and the air of unapproachable dignity which she assumed well suited the aristocratic gentleman at her side, whom every one knew as the most brilliant, witty, and extravagant noble at the Emperor's court. [10]
The sun came up in a glory of carmine, and the trees were brilliant in their varied shades of green. [5]
The brilliant and unscrupulous, the beautiful and the bad, have a great advantage in this world. [11]
We visited the two long, covered wooden bridges which span the green and brilliant Reuss just below where it goes plunging and hurrahing out of the lake. [5]
Then as he turned to the outer door a softness came into his face, stole up into his brilliant eyes and dimmed them with a tear. [11]
John, it is true, did not care much for anything that did not appeal to his taste and smell and delight in brilliant color; and he trod down the exquisite ferns and the wonderful mosses--without compunction. [4]
He had already told them yesterday much that was fresh and interesting about the Imperial court; to-day he entered into fuller details of the brilliant life his young lord had led at Constantinople, whither he had accompanied him. [10]
It was hard to tell what were the principles controlling Tarboe--there was always an element of suspicion in his brown and brilliant eyes. [11]
It is easy to recall the names of brilliant men whose fine talents have been eaten away by this habit of unveracity. [4]
When I used to read that such and such a general did a certain brilliant thing, I believed it. [5]
The youth, accustomed to Moor's wonderful clearness, Titian's brilliant hues, found Filippi's pictures indistinct, as if veiled by grey mists. [10]
It's easy enough to make a brilliant catalogue of external achievements, but I take it that real progress ought to be in man himself. [4]
There I seemed to know he had the rest that he could not have anywhere on these brilliant historic shores. [4]
Rostov was horrified to hear later that of all that mass of huge and handsome men, of all those brilliant, rich youths, officers and cadets, who had galloped past him on their thousand-ruble horses, only eighteen were left after the charge. [2]
Everything sorrowful seemed to have been banished far from this brilliant, vigorous round table, so words flowed freely and voices sounded full and strong enough. [10]
There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice--the demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. [7]
The citizens seemed to be full of life and good-humor; but poor Elfonzo saw not a brilliant scene. [5]
Carnac was keyed to anxiety, but outwardly seemed moving with brilliant certainty. [11]
They led me to a spot where a huge boulder lay in a deep pool of clear and brilliant water. [5]
We went abroad through the town, then, and found it a city of huge commercial buildings, and broad, handsome streets brilliant with gas-light. [5]
I have since thought it a peculiarly amusing trick of fate that the palace of the Russian embassy--the property of the autocrat Nicholas--was obliged to celebrate with a brilliant display of lights the movement for liberty in a sister country. [10]
We were among those, who attended the brilliant inauguration ceremonies, and now willingly recall many of the doubts expressed in our work 'Durch Gosen zum Sinai'. [10]
How often had those bitter anguished words of his mother rung in her ears-- "So brilliant and unscrupulous, like yourself; but, oh, so sure of winning a great place in the world . [11]
The face at this age becomes of a fine blue, with the ridge and tip of the nose of the most brilliant red. [1]
Rostov was always thinking about that brilliant exploit of his, which to his amazement had gained him the St. George's Cross and even given him a reputation for bravery, and there was something he could not at all understand. [2]
Even the smallest things appeared perfectly clear to his sharpened eyes, and yet he seemed to see them as if reflected in a brilliant mirror. [10]
Large, brilliant, gentle, they had now also a bewildered look, which even the rough old soldier saw. [11]
The match was therefore a brilliant one, and had a sort of national importance. [4]
In certain of them, big bouquets of fresh and brilliant tropical flowers had been frozen-in; in others, beautiful silken-clad French dolls, and other pretty objects. [5]
The multitude cover their heads, and the rest of the procession moves by; first the Hungarian Guard in their indescribably brilliant and picturesque and beautiful uniform, inherited from the ages of barbaric splendor, and after them other mounted forces, a long and showy array. [5]
They save all their dress parade for the concerts; and the hall of the Odeon is as brilliant as provincial taste can make it in toilet. [4]
No doubt if their colours had been brilliant, they would have been much more conspicuous to their enemies; but whether their dull tints have been specially gained for the sake of protection seems, as far as I can judge, rather doubtful. [1]
Saint Simeon Stylites the Younger explained the wonders of the moon to her,--Tycho and the grooves radiating from it, Kepler and Copernicus with their craters and ridges, and all the most brilliant shows of this wonderful little world. [6]
But how white the world looked this morning, and how proud and brilliant the sky! [11]
It was in the Unitarian pulpit that the brilliant talents of Buckminster and Everett had found a noble eminence from which their light could shine before men. [6]
For an instant the tempestuous action, the brilliant, swift play of the sword, the quivering flippancy of the steel, gave Dyck that which almost disconcerted him. [11]
Would he exchange the sweetness of that for the fleeting reputation of the most brilliant lawyer? [4]
I will close the subject with a brief examination of some of the statements made in Homoeopathic works, and more particularly in the brilliant Manifesto of the "Examiner," before referred to. [3]
It is in the study of temper, temperament, hereditary predispositions, that we may expect the most brilliant results in preventive medicine. [4]
But that evening the spacious hotel, luxurious, perfectly warmed, and well lighted, crowded with an agreeable if not a brilliant company--for Mr. King noted the fact that none of the gentlemen dressed for dinner--seemed all the more pleasant for the contrast with the weather outside. [4]
His home became the social center of the capital, and his brilliant brother its chief ornament. [5]
When King entered the room the scene might well be called brilliant, and even bewildering, so that in the maze of beauty and the babble of talk he was glad to obtain the services of Mrs. Farquhar as cicerone. [4]
Yet he wished the Roman the most brilliant victory; for his defeat would have been Cleopatra's also, and would she endure the consequences of such a disaster? [10]
The colours of the red and yellow brick had never been so brilliant in the sunshine. [9]
When I arrived, the playhouse was lit with myriad candles,--to be snuffed save the footlights presently,--and the tiers were all brilliant with the costumes of ladies and gentlemen. [9]
The fires in the pitch-pans and the torches on the shore sometimes seemed on the point of being extinguished, at others burst with a doubly brilliant blaze through the smoke which obscured them. [10]
In Faber Street the once brilliant signs above the "ten-foot" buildings seemed dulled, the telegraph poles starker, nakeder than ever, their wires scarcely discernible against the smeared sky. [9]
But most probably the next week he would win a brilliant case in the Supreme Court. [9]
Aldrich he considered the most brilliant of living men. [5]
Carl had made the last sale and the most brilliant one of all. [5]
On its river-side the houses and streets were brilliant, but on the hill-slope lay, with but few more respectable exceptions, miserable, poverty-stricken huts constructed of acacia-boughs and Nile-mud. [10]
She too, loved the handsome Lesbian and refused to leave him despite the brilliant offers made to her on all sides. [10]
The day of the great test came, hot, brilliant, vivid. [11]
I dreamed of the fall of the Caesars, and of a great Greek Empire risen from the ruins, powerful and brilliant under the special protection of the gods of Olympus; and each one of us must labor to bring about the realization of this dream. [10]
The walls of the ditch were brilliant with yellow banks of sulphur and with lava and pumice-stone of many colors. [5]
The porches of the country-houses and the little towers on the larger buildings were all lighted up by brilliant flames, burning in pans of pitch and sending up clouds of smoke, in which the flags and pennons waved gently backwards and forwards. [10]

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