"Brightness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... my English accent soon assured him that I was no contrabbandiere, and he too leaned against the stanchion and told me his short story. He was in his nineteenth year, and came from Florence, where his people live in the Borgo Ognissanti. He had all the brightness of the Tuscan folk, a sort of innocent malice mixed with espieglerie. It was diverting to see the airs he gave himself on the strength of his new military dignity, his gun, and uniform, and night duty on the shore. I ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds
... roses, of little red roses; (Thou art a rose, oh, so sweet, corazon!) The laugh of the water who falls in the fountain; (Thou art the fountain of love, corazon!) The brightness of stars, of little stars golden; (Estrella de mi vida! My little life star!) The shine of the moon through the magnolia tree; I am so sad till thou come, mi amor! Dios! It is sweet to be young and to love! More sweet than wine . . . to ...
— Wolf Breed • Jackson Gregory
... the hour the darkest seemeth Will his changeless goodness prove; From the gloom his brightness streameth: God is wisdom, God is love. He with earthly cares entwineth Hope and comfort from above; Everywhere his glory shineth: God is wisdom, God ...
— The Otterbein Hymnal - For Use in Public and Social Worship • Edmund S. Lorenz
... mentioned that there ought to be more boats out there on the bay, a whole fleet, and some of them with colored sails, to give more brightness, ...
— The City of Domes • John D. Barry
... the Lord! Not in the square-hewn, many-tiered pile, Not in the long-drawn, dim-shadowed aisle, But where the bright world, with age never hoary, Flashes her brightness and thunders his ...
— The World's Best Poetry Volume IV. • Bliss Carman
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