They sat watching the water of the pellucid stream rush by. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : pellucid waters. ,a pellucid way of writing. From Dictionary.com.
THE river Little St. Juan may, with singular propriety, be termed the pellucid river. From Wordnik.com. [Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians.] Reference
"It is pellucid, that is, not opaque, or dark -- it gives admission to the light, and reflects it back again in all its beauty, brilliancy, and purity. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Emigrants; Madelaine Tube; the Boy and the Book; and Crystal Palace] Reference
My mask was pellucid, and I think yours might be too. From Wordnik.com. [robitessin Diary Entry] Reference
How different from the pellucid basin of the Great Geyser!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
She dipped the toes of her arched foot into the pellucid stream. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Its reasoning is highly pellucid, and its dignity is past all question. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1] Reference
Here and there were tanks of pellucid water in which bloomed forests of lotuses. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
It was very pellucid and free from any striæ either of the straight or curved types. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
A pellucid style must always have been a source of wide, though modest, popularity for. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
That it is an opaque and solid Body, is visible by the Eclipses of the Sun; for a pellucid. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country] Reference
Reaching up, he felt of the pellucid epidermal seal that had closed a cut on his forehead. From Wordnik.com. [Dirge]
Soon they were all joyously stamping and dancing in what had so lately been a pellucid pool. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
The dusky white covering resembles a fine white net, and within it is a pellucid gelatinous substance. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Love your articles, you are such a pellucid writer but when you appear on TV what language do you speak in?. From Wordnik.com. [John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...] Reference
HARTINGTON, with hat cunningly tipped over eyes, hid what secret may have lain far in their pellucid depths. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 14, 1891] Reference
Many large, beautiful, pellucid and sacred lakes are there, abounding with fish, flowers, and golden lilies. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
She told her husband her secret in one of the pellucid talks in which married lovers tell everything to each other. From Wordnik.com. [Eve and David] Reference
Two sacks full of the leaves yield scarcely three drachms of the oil, which is limpid, pellucid, and of a green color. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
He looked up at her, with his chin near his plate, and his eyes very clear, pellucid, and unwavering as he watched her. From Wordnik.com. [The Fox] Reference
Its deep, cool shadows, and the pellucid water, which a wandering sunbeam accidentally revealed, were strikingly realistic. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
A soft hue or a pellucid note may be an intrinsic pleasure, though a formless one, and one expressive of no meaning at all. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
One mass of twenty and one-half pounds was absolutely pellucid, and more or less of the material was used for art purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891] Reference
Our names are set in "caps," and we have a brisk paragraph apiece, admirable pieces of composition, pellucid, compact, nervous. From Wordnik.com. [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference
Chara, which might disclose the secret, had I good glasses, it is a most graceful pellucid form, an undescribed duckweed, a floating. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
The body, nearly transparent, or of a pellucid green, is glossed with all the variety of prismatic tints, and thickly dotted with brown. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 495, June 25, 1831] Reference
Ivan longed for the arid hills, and lofty mountains, and pellucid lakes -- for the exciting hunt and the night bivouac, when gray-headed. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850] Reference
The clear heavens, blue and pellucid as a sapphire, were still cool, but from the lower slope down the east a radiance began to crawl upward. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
It seemed like an old friend, because they had been accustomed to skating on its frozen surface, and bathing in its pellucid depths, year after year. From Wordnik.com. [The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain] Reference
The drawing-room and dining-room had both spacious bay-windows, opening on to the lawn that sloped very gradually down to the pellucid lake, and there was mirrored. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
There is a grace and a softness in the prismatic lymph that give a new form and color to the common and familiar objects it has printed in its still, pellucid depths. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
He loved to go forth on the pellucid surface of "clear, placid Leman," there to drink in the soft beauties of the shores, or to gaze upon the distant sublimities of Mont Blanc. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
The whole plant is sprinkled over with the white, pellucid meal, and contains much "trimethylamine," together with osmazome, and nitrate of potash; also it gives off free ammonia. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
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