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  • If that seems like a startling claim, it's all the more so coming from a bright-faced 35-year-old sitting a stone's throw from Merrill Lynch's famous charging bull.

    So Who Needs Wall Street? Mary Kissel 2011

  • Chorus: Do now creatures of a day own bright-faced fire?

    Feisal G. Mohamed: Evaluating the Post-Secular Return to Belief Feisal G. Mohamed 2011

  • Chorus: Do now creatures of a day own bright-faced fire?

    Feisal G. Mohamed: Evaluating the Post-Secular Return to Belief Feisal G. Mohamed 2011

  • Frona sought out the owner, a bright-faced young fellow, with sharp black eyes and a salient jaw.

    CHAPTER 3 2010

  • Accompanied by louder portions of the song's title phrase, a bright-faced Aaron Carr bursts into this scene in high-heeled pumps, wearing a see-through top over his black jock strap.

    High Decor, Not Demure Robert Greskovic 2011

  • Is our understanding of history served well or ill by the spectacle of Hitler playing with dogs, making nice with bright-faced children, chatting up his secretaries, posing stiffly in various uniforms, deploring Göring's shooting of a boar What kind of courage is that?

    'Pariah' Stands Apart—As Fresh Teen Tale Joe Morgenstern 2012

  • The other day I took my sandy-haired, bright-faced daughter to dinner at 9 p.m., which is late for a 10-year-old, and introduced her to the idea of Ordering Whatever You Want, No Matter What Others May Think, and she got the chicken Kiev and for dessert an apple tart as big as a Gideon Bible.

    garrison keillor | the blessings of childlike wonder « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

  • The other day I took my sandy-haired, bright-faced daughter to dinner at 9 p.m., which is late for a 10-year-old, and introduced her to the idea of Ordering Whatever You Want, No Matter What Others May Think, and she got the chicken Kiev and for dessert an apple tart as big as a Gideon Bible.

    December « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

  • She was a bright-faced first year from Hawaii, one of the more alert students in the writing class I was teaching at a university in the middle of Texas, a refreshing curiosity because of where she was from; she had opinions and could share them in class, and, as far as I could tell, was a decent writer.

    Professor Revisits, Reconsiders Plagiarism Case In Essay The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • She was a bright-faced first year from Hawaii, one of the more alert students in the writing class I was teaching at a university in the middle of Texas, a refreshing curiosity because of where she was from; she had opinions and could share them in class, and, as far as I could tell, was a decent writer.

    Professor Revisits, Reconsiders Plagiarism Case In Essay 2010

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