Adjective : the brilliant lights of the city. ,a brilliant performance by a young pianist. ,a brilliant technician. ,brilliant blues and greens; the brilliant sound of the trumpets. ,a brilliant social event.    From Dictionary.com. 

Sheridan was considered a genius, but it was found that the "brilliants" and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushing to the Front] Reference

Think of forests of adamant with leaves of brilliants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Father Brown] Reference

Upon this is placed a Maltese or cross pattee of brilliants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Illustrated London Reading Book] Reference

The diadem, that heavy circlet of brilliants which crowned the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortieth Door] Reference

"Are you any judge of brilliants?" inquired the Sepoy abruptly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference

These jewels were chiefly pearls, brilliants, rubies and emeralds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Morocco] Reference

She opened the box and held up a slender gold necklace set with tiny brilliants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dorothy Dainty's Gay Times] Reference

She exhibited, hastily, an open casket containing a profusion of the largest brilliants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Room in the Dragon Volant] Reference

These bracelets and necklaces are fastened by a brooch or pin of brilliants or marcasite.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference

Where do the priests get all their brilliants to perform high mass and adorn their processions?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference

Eighteen, nineteen, twenty brilliants, worth twenty pounds apiece upon an average, I do believe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erema] Reference

The interiors are gilt, often furnished with detachable plates and sometimes set with brilliants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

Even in the daylight tiny brilliants flashed out from their setting in foamy lace about the neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Soprano] Reference

I saw lace albs there, with crotchet work marvellously executed by hand, and adorned with brilliants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference

Somebody had bamboozled him with those loose brilliants, saying they were found in the castle caverns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Father Brown] Reference

In return I gave her a hair slide of brilliants in a bow-shaped setting, only 1870-ish but quite bonny.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vatican Rip]

Albertine had on her feet a pair of black shoes studded with brilliants which Françoise indignantly called.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captive] Reference

You are rich, yet you say that you have never in your life seen a gold watch nor a ring set with brilliants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Armenian Literature] Reference

In the better made brilliants the angle that the back slope makes with the plane of the girdle is very nearly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference

Above the rim of a golden comb, richly chased and studded with brilliants, arose a peacock with expanded tail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference

"That rough diamond shone more bright than all the artful polished brilliants that ever sparkled on our stage.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference

Most brilliants to-day are cut practically round and the form is that of two truncated cones placed base to base.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference

And first of all it would be necessary for me to gain some true idea as to the value of brilliants of so rare a hue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Destiny] Reference

The rich style of waistcoat being covered with embroideries, and being closed up the front with buttons of brilliants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference

On the outside is a medallion, designed by Widnmann, set in brilliants, representing King Louis surrounded by artists.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference

The arches rise almost to a point instead of being depressed, are covered with pearls, and are surmounted by an orb of brilliants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Illustrated London Reading Book] Reference

Black silk stockings showed a well-turned calf in no whit shrunken with age, and his silver shoe-buckles glittered with brilliants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference

The corn-silk hair was caught within a wide-meshed golden net in which sparkled tiny brilliants, like blended sapphires and diamonds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon Pool] Reference

The military sword of Charles the Tenth's coronation, the hilt of which is entirely of brilliants mounted by Bapst with wonderful art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884] Reference

The two brilliants Betelgeux and Bellatrix form the giant's shoulders, and the bright star Rigel marks the position of his advanced foot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference

The black roguish eyes sparkled like the brilliants she wore, and the complexion was scarcely rivalled by the roses she had in her bouquet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference

The wretched woman was in a brilliant full toilette, her arms and all her fingers sparkling with bracelets and rings, and the brilliants on her breast which Steyne had given her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference