"Under these circumstances, you will naturally ask, 'What are our prospects when the document is found?' Our prospects have a
bright side and a dark side.
"It isn't very pleasant to be laid up; but there is a
bright side to it, Marilla.
"How can I think of the
bright side of life when, as you see, I am sitting on a barrel and working in a dirty shed?" the expression of his face seemed to say.
Becky Thatcher was gone to her Constantinople home to stay with her parents during vacation -- so there was no
bright side to life anywhere.
Let us hear, then, what it is at its best estate--gaze on its
bright side, if it has one; and then imagination may task her powers to add dark lines to the picture, as she travels southward to that (for the colored man) Valley of the Shadow of Death, where the Mississippi sweeps along.
Meanwhile, it is my duty to tell you that there is one
bright side to this otherwise deplorable and shocking document.
"Well, of course, if you can look on the
bright side, pray do; it's a mercy if people haven't sensitive feelings, in this world.
On each soft side --coincident with the parted swell, that but once leaving him, then flowed so wide away --on each
bright side, the whale shed off enticings.
She seemed to say, "Cheer up!--as long as we are here, let us make the best of it." I judged she had earned a right to a more hospitable place; so I plucked her up and sent her to America to a friend who would respect her for the fight she had made, all by her small self, to make a whole vast despondent Alpine desolation stop breaking its heart over the unalterable, and hold up its head and look at the
bright side of things for once.
"You are very happy," exclaimed Athos, laughing, in spite of himself, at the sally of the irresistible Gascon; "for you see the
bright side of everything."
"You see things on the
bright side, and so much the better for you.
Even looking at the
bright side of things, he found it both stupid and sad to be left alone in the midst of this savage country and among these wild tribes.