Brilliantly

Examples

• Far below me lay the brilliantly lighted streets, the hard pavements, and death. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The brilliantly lighted apartments of the first floor told me where first to seek, and advancing to the windows I peered within. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The gardens swarmed with brilliantly trapped black men and women. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• There was a procession to the Champ de Mars, which he headed, brilliantly arrayed, bearing a great bunch of flowers and wheat ears. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Every cover was taken off, and the apartment blazed forth in yellow silk damask and a brilliantly-flowered carpet. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• No, it's no ghost, but fair flesh and blood, most brilliantly dressed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I sit in the shade--if any shade there be in this brilliantly-lit apartment; the window-curtain half hides me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She was really brilliantly beautiful and everybody noticed her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The room was a pleasant one, at the top of the house, overlooking the sea, on which the moon was shining brilliantly. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The instant I turned the corner and came in view of the vestry, I saw the lantern-skylight on the roof brilliantly lit up from within. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• These were the discoveries with which Philosophy opened the nineteenth century so brilliantly in the field of Pneumatics. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Boulton and Watt, at Soho, was brilliantly illuminated with coal gas by Mr. Murdoch. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The sun was shining brilliantly into his chamber, when he awoke, and the morning was far advanced. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Once more Napoleon fought brilliantly, but now he fought ineffectually. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The declining sun lighted brilliantly the eastern banks of Korus, the crimson sward, the gorgeous forest. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against the blind. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The sunset struck so brilliantly into the travelling carriage when it gained the hill-top, that its occupant was steeped in crimson. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• A second later the wall swung in, and I was pushed within a brilliantly lighted chamber in which sat three richly trapped men. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Tom's cabin was shut up for the present; but George expatiated brilliantly on ornaments and additions to be made to it when Tom came back. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Carbon crucible kept brilliantly incandescent by current in vacuo, for obtaining reaction with refractory metals. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Every broker's office was brilliantly lighted all night, and all hands were at work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It was as brilliantly polished as the one below, but here at least she could burn a few papers with less risk of incurring her aunt's disapproval. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• We loitered about gazing aloft at the monster windows all aglow with brilliantly colored scenes in the lives of the Saviour and his followers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A pretty little house stood at the top of the lane, with a garden before it, exquisitely neat and brilliantly blooming. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• You should have seen the dining-room that day--how richly it was decorated, how brilliantly lit up! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Although not yet dawn, the room was brilliantly lighted. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• As we approached the palace I could see through the great windows of the first floor into the brilliantly illuminated audience chamber of Than Kosis. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• For behind that balanced plan there grew up what Senator Beveridge has called so brilliantly the invisible government, an empire of natural groups about natural leaders. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

Editor: Rodney