"Brilliance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... heart, and about eleven o'clock he found time to stop at the village haberdasher's and to select a new tie, which he had wrapped and stuffed in his pocket. And which, inspected in broad day later on a country road, gave him uneasy qualms as to its brilliance. ...
— The Breaking Point • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... sought because of her beauty and brilliance, she was admired and courted by many men without ever feeling the least quickening of her heart, which was ...
— Strong as Death • Guy de Maupassant
... The brilliance of the house and the guests, together with Rosamond's gracious greeting as she met her and led her to be introduced to the hostess, soon worked a cure for her low spirits and she began to enjoy herself ...
— Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge • Pemberton Ginther
... table at which I am seated, adjoins a window at the farthest corner; and to the left of my chair as I recline in it, there is a large table before an empty grate, around which there are many chairs, where the cabinet used to assemble. The carpet is trodden thin, and the brilliance of its dyes is lost. The furniture is of the formal cabinet class, stately and semi-comfortable; there are book cases sprinkled with the sparse library of a country lawyer, but lately plethoric, like the thin body which has departed in its coffin. They are taking away Mr. Lincoln's private effects, ...
— The Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth • George Alfred Townsend
... close to dawn. The issue between Sandy Bourke and Plimsoll, crowded aside for the moment, was now paramount. Some craned for sight of the two-gun man, others glanced toward the eastern sky. The stars seemed to be losing their brilliance, the golden moon turning silver, the high horizon, jagged with mountain crests, appeared to be gaining ...
— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn
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