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V.iii.3 EDWARD But, in the midst of this bright-shining day
Archive 2006-12-01 DC 2006
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V.iii.3 EDWARD But, in the midst of this bright-shining day
On 'the' in maybe Shakespeare DC 2006
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Then the bright-shining sun o'er the bottoms came going; [2]
Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Lesslie [Translator] Hall
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And bright-shining burnies, as he begged they should have them;
Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Lesslie [Translator] Hall
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The bracteates and jewels, from the bright-shining city, [1]
Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Lesslie [Translator] Hall
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The four grand provinces of Erin moved out early on the morrow [2] with the rising of the bright-shining sun glistening on the snow [2] and marched on from that part into another.
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They saw in the hosts of Pharaoh the old Teuton warriors, with the bright-shining bucklers, and the voice of the trumpets and the waving of banners.
Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days Emily Hickey
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Of great bright-shining waters fast-enclosed by the land
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Bodin had proposed that they should be killed on mere suspicion, but Montaigne observes, "To kill human beings there is required a bright-shining {661} and clear light."
The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910
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For many years he was a bright-shining, sympathetic figure among those who lead in the van of our material progress; and the accomplishment, by his initiative and energy, of the long dream of the Suez Canal, made him the hero, not of his own nation alone, but of all the civilized world; honors were heaped upon him, and acclamations greeted him on every side.
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