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  • The Sisters there offered Nicci brighteyed smiles and clever conversation.

    Men Don't Leave Me 2010

  • It's not even 9: 30 in the AM, and I am brighteyed and cheerful.

    ana-ng Diary Entry ana-ng 2009

  • Near bronze from anear near gold from afar they chinked their clinking glasses all, brighteyed and gallant, before bronze

    Ulysses 2003

  • In a few moments a fine looking, brighteyed mulatto boy, apparently about fifteen years of are, was standing by his master's side at the table.

    Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life 1953

  • Near bronze from anear near gold from afar they chinked their clinking glasses all, brighteyed and gallant, before bronze Lydia's tempting last rose of summer, rose of Castile.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • A stout fox, drawn from covert, brush pointed, having buried his grandmother, runs swift for the open, brighteyed, seeking badger earth, under the leaves.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • A sense of duty or expediency always brought him back before long to the couch in the conservatory to lie and watch, brighteyed, for the only person who counted in his world.

    The Obstacle Race 1910

  • And on through the sunny gardens they went, into the Lily Hall, where, among the golden stamens of a graceful flower, sat the Queen; while on the broad, green leaves around it stood the brighteyed little maids of honor.

    Flower Fables Louisa May Alcott 1860

  • And on through the sunny gardens they went, into the Lily Hall, where, among the golden stamens of a graceful flower, sat the Queen; while on the broad, green leaves around it stood the brighteyed little maids of honor.

    Flower Fables 1855

  • The oldest is a brighteyed, sturdy, manly boy, who is the constant companion and sworn friend of your servant, with whom he has some of the rarest frolics.

    Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment viii, 9-151, [1] p. 1847

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