bright-minded

Indeed, these two bright-minded girls found it not difficult to keep up with their classes.

Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers Alice B. Emerson

The bright-minded boy or girl who may not comprehend the feeling or thought when so uttered, nevertheless _knows_ it, and, for his or her range of effort, as keenly as does the adult explorer.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

At no time in the past has there been so deep an interest manifested by the public generally in the inventions of our bright-minded men and women, and at no time has capital been more readily interested and ready to invest in any practical improvement which can offer a fair chance of monopoly under the patent laws.

Practical Pointers for Patentees Franklin Cresee

The bright-minded girl saw all this in those few seconds.

A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall Amy Bell Marlowe

I found that a very athletic and bright-minded student had become really insane.

History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912 Kemp Plummer 1912

Better still than reading is conversation, the rubbing of wits and furbishing of knowledge amid well-informed and bright-minded company.

Platform Monologues 1902

Intense application and mental force characterized William Brown, who was called "Billy" by the high school girls -- fine, bright-minded young women -- and "Bill" by the boys.

Radio Boys Loyalty Bill Brown Listens In Samuel Francis Aaron 1899

I would rather descend from a clean, capable and bright-minded genus of apes than from any unclean, ignorant and repulsive race of the genus _Homo.

The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations William Temple Hornaday 1895

You're going to have a string of hard fights, one after the other, and there'll be times when you'll long with all your soul for some good, clean-hearted, bright-minded little girl to go to for comfort and counsel.

The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Francis Lynde 1893

But you owe it to yourself, and to a certain bright-minded young woman that I know of, not to fly off the handle without at least trying to see if you can't stay on.

The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Francis Lynde 1893