The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art,as airing as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. From LearnThat.org.
Writes in a limpid style. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Shields shares with fellow Canadian Alice Munro not only her Ontario milieu but also a gift for psychological acuity expressed in limpid, shimmering prose. From Wordnik.com. [Unless: Summary and book reviews of Unless by Carol Shields.] Reference
I'm learning english, but your mistake in "limpid" made me doubt, and that only answer I got wrong. From Wordnik.com. [The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed] Reference
As long as any fluid remained in it it was limpid. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Across velvet-clad lawns, and beside limpid rills. From Wordnik.com. [The Peacock and Parrot, on their Tour to Discover the Author of "The Peacock At Home"] Reference
Young hearts can offer love pure as a limpid spring. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
The traveler does not often look into such a limpid well. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
Like twin clouds of stormy portent balanced over limpid deeps. From Wordnik.com. [Stories in Verse] Reference
What matter if a limpid stream springs up between two paving stones?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
October; and when the morning mist is dissipated, the sky is of so limpid. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
We've sifted through and separated the limpid pools from the stagnant puddles. From Wordnik.com. [Which football stadium is closest to water?] Reference
A struggle, brief but turbulent, ensues: the limpid wave of youth is swallowed up. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
Its water, slightly alkaline, is still limpid and cool, and a great source of comfort. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference
He was appeased simply by the caress of her voice, of which the tone was limpid and clear. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
They lack the jaunty humor of the Chemical Brothers and the limpid expressionism of Orbital. From Wordnik.com. [Electronic Eden] Reference
Clumps of clear jelly with black dots clung to the stalks of marsh grass in the limpid water. From Wordnik.com. [SOMETIMES] Reference
His taste is delicate, his style healthy and frank, and at the same time limpid and animated. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
(Soundbite of song "Astronomy Domine") PINK FLOYD: (Singing) Lime and limpid green, a second scene. From Wordnik.com. [Pink Floyd's David Gilmour Resurfaces] Reference
Near it was a sandy bathing beach, and soon they were swimming about in the limpid waters of Rainbow Lake. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem] Reference
Eagerly they drank the waters of the limpid stream for which they as well as their beasts had been suffering. From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
Their limpid hazel depths were troubled now: tears were evidently very near, and Lady Caroline detested tears. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
Their eyes were limpid wells of loveliness, where every impulse of their natures were betrayed without reserve. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
Scores of times have I sailed from one end of it to the other; and hundreds of times have I bathed in its limpid waters. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
The mineral water, of which there is a most abundant supply, is limpid and unctuous, and tastes like slightly salt new milk. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The canary song ended with a sustained trill, and then, soft and melodious, came the limpid notes of the mocking bird's song. From Wordnik.com. [The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Making Good in the Wireless Room] Reference
Its width is about 100 m. -- 330 ft. -- but there is scarcely ever more than a mere fillet of very clear, limpid water in it. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference
There was no coral enclosed harbor, filled with limpid blue water -- though the sea off shore was blue enough, for that matter. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
Such water is very pure and limpid, particularly where the stream in its downward course tumbles over rocks or forms waterfalls. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference
Antennæ tawny, arista white; thorax and abdomen with bright silvery tomentum; tarsi whitish testaceous; wings limpid, veins pale. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
In a post-coital embrace, Cera's limpid eyes gaze down at his partner: "You're beautiful," he says, quieting Norah's insecurities. From Wordnik.com. [‘Like, I Symbolize Sex?’] Reference
Like so many ghosts haunting our inner most lives, we can't see them clearly and out limpid limpness forbids even a passing glance. From Wordnik.com. [A Mess] Reference
(A limpid headline in the state-run English-language China Daily summed up the official view: victory unlikely to worsen relations.). From Wordnik.com. [The Politics Of Celebrity] Reference
This first duty accomplished, you turn the silver tap, and the pure and limpid water pours into a large bowl of enamelled porcelain. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
After pausing a moment we descended to the margin of the pond, which was so limpid that we could distinguish every pebble at the bottom. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
Vaucluse (p. 64), this cavern or “foux,” at the base of a calcareous cliff, contains a great basin of limpid water, but no stalactites. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
It abounds in trout of a black colour and slender shape, differing much in appearance from the trout found in the limpid stream of the Avon which issues from it. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
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