Lucid thoughts that he later stared back upon and wondered, "What the hell were they?
They seek the cisterns where Phaeacian dames Wash their fair garments in the limpid streams; Where, gathering into depth from falling rills, The lucid wave a spacious bason fills.
The result is a source of some confusion, even to the most lucid writers.
Jomini, his great contemporary and rival, though proceeding by a less philosophical but no less lucid method, entirely endorses this view.
The effect of these lucid revelations upon the mind of Maud was very overpowering.
At the same time, it is most rationally concluded that intelligent beings in great multitudes inhabit her lucid regions, being far better and happier than ourselves.
There is some difficulty in understanding the events of this day, but the lucid narrative of Quicherat, which we shall now quote, gives a very vivid picture of it.
I avail myself here as elsewhere of Mr. Lang's lucid description.
He was an austere and eloquent young man," says Quicherat, "of a lucid mind, though nourished on abstractions.
In England the Roman Catholic bishops have agreed on the use of what is known as "The Penny Catechism," which is verylucid and well constructed.
He wrote several other works of the same nature which exhibit scholarly research and lucid arrangement.
His lucid thought is not beguiled into false pity or into the common weakness of affection.
I have not; and of the million persons or more who are said to have read them, I never met one yet with the talent of lucid exposition sufficiently developed to give me a connected account of what they are about.
There is a faint chill in the clear air, a tranquil calm on the gently rising and falling sea and in the lucid sky.
All that had previously seemed obscure is now lucid as day.
There is a sense of something wanting in the book--something lucid and spiritual (is it Conviction?
Mr. Hone has wisely decided not to take anything for granted, but to give lucid expositions of everything that concerns manors and manorial records.
Though he had not Johnson’s Jove–like power of driving home a truth, he frequently persuaded, by his calm and lucid logic, where the thunder of the Great Cham only repelled.
These 'Chats' comprise a full and admirably lucid description of every branch of the engraver's art, with copious and suggestive illustrations.
Here we see in a most lucid manner the process by which chintzes were produced in the time of James II.
The Parleyings volume is dealt with in a lucid and sympathetic manner in Mr. Nettleship's Essays and Thoughts.
His way he took where white-wall'd convents shine, And reached the passage of the lucid Rhine.
From my summer alcove, which the stars this morn With lucid pearls o'erspread, I have gathered these jessamines, thus to adorn With a wreath thy graceful head.
The motions of the sun, moon, and the five lucid planets of that time indicated the activity of the various gods who influenced human affairs.
If life had repressed and denied her, it had trained her mental processes into lucid and orderly habits.
Mrs. Colfax's picture of the situation she thought tinged with melodrama, and her honest and lucid intelligence despised the melodramatic.
If in anylucid moments he thought where he was, he no doubt supposed that he was in a hospital, and probably had sense enough to understand that it was of no use to attempt to get his own way there.
A past generation of American schoolboys knew him gratefully as the author of a compact and lucid Greek grammar.
In undertaking this quasi philosophical task, I count it a piece of good fortune to have provoked so many lucid accounts of what other colleges are doing.
How can I tell all I long to tell and still be sure the telling will be for him as lucid and delightful as for me?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lucid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
