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  • What’s bril­liant is that the char­ac­ter you’re play­ing — Gor­don Free­man, a sort of com­mando physi­cist — is regarded by all the oth­ers as supremely capa­ble: You’re the one with all the answers.

    Come On, Make Me Work « Snarkmarket 2006

  • French have something more 'liant', more insinuating and engaging in their manner, than we have.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

  • French have something more 'liant', more insinuating and engaging in their manner, than we have.

    Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1751 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

  • This sort of badinage has something engaging and liant in it, and begets that decent familiarity, which it is both agreeable and useful to establish in good houses and with people of fashion.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • The French have something more liant, more insinuating and engaging in their manner, than we have.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • At three yards in height, he was an impressive figure even among alectors, with his bril-liant white face, flashing purple eyes, and hair so deep and black that, paradoxically, it seemed to radiate light.

    Alector's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2005

  • He was standing about a yard away, unsmiling, the bril liant eyes slightly narrowed, his damp hair curling on to his forehead.

    Rome's Revenge Craven, Sara 2001

  • He started to tell the tale of the fight that long-ago morning, and of the Duke and his bril - liant Allheart knights marching the powries in from the field.

    Mortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1999

  • He started to tell the tale of the fight that long-ago morning, and of the Duke and his bril - liant Allheart knights marching the powries in from the field.

    Mortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1999

  • It was approaching noon when they passed over a cluster of small islands that looked like emeralds floating in the sea, bril - liant green against the blue.

    The Elf Queen of Shannara Brooks, Terry 1992

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