1
It was De Ganache; but how changed from the once brilliant cavalier.
2
A happy old age concluded his life, at once brilliant and useful.
3
His highly colored speeches to his soldiers were at once brilliant and inspiriting.
4
He even showed occasional flashes of a once brilliant mind.
5
And so this sad, dark-robed spectre was the once brilliant and beautiful De Helly!
6
After the witch there was only one coherent thing left in that once brilliant mind: Ysabeau.
7
I twist in a spiral of laws once brilliant but now evil, cutting, carving-settingevil precedents.
8
Glancing round the room, he saw no one in whom he could conjecture the once brilliant Vicomte.
9
Irish theatre was once brilliant or terrible.
10
The travails of Gillespie this summer have been well documented - a once brilliant figure reduced to forlorn cannon fodder.
11
The eyes, of a pale blue, once brilliant, are clouded now by some hidden pain, or dulled by gloomy sadness.
12
A few centuries have sufficed to alter the entire contour of the coast and reverse the once brilliant destinies of maritime cities.
13
I think it is at once brilliant and sedate-ithas a magnificent air of historical antiquity, and it is a little paradoxical.
14
I pressed my lips to his once brilliant and now rayless eyes- Iswepthis hair from his brow, and kissed that too.
15
He was dead game! muttered Jack Blunt, kneeling there, by the stiffening form of the wreck of a once brilliant Queen's officer.
16
That, and the lack of omnibuses and tramways and the scarcity of cabs, makes the once brilliant and active quarter look quite unnatural.
