Miss Sullivan, who knows her pupil's mind, selects from the passing landscape essential elements, which give a certain clearness to Miss. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of My Life] Reference
Our belief in the life after death has exactly that degree of certainty and clearness, which is expedient for us. From Wordnik.com. [The German Pulpit, Being a Selection of Sermons by the Most Eminent Modern Divines of Germany.] Reference
The kind of clearness that a sage remembers when he attains enlightenment. From Wordnik.com. [Mallika Chopra: What Happened in Mumbai is Very Personal] Reference
The skies, however, had that transparent clearness which is one of the charms of the nights of the north. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
One end rose into a rococo tower, lit then with the curious kind of clearness produced by a half-moon's light. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making] Reference
He had that clearness which is founded on shallowness. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
This word means "clearness," and hence also that which makes clear, or pure, alkali. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
The water possessed that wonderful clearness which is one of its beautiful peculiarities in Maine. From Wordnik.com. [The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters] Reference
As for the Gries, there was a glacier on the top which needed some kind of clearness in the weather. From Wordnik.com. [The Path to Rome] Reference
"It is a trait all the more to be insisted on in these very times, because there is so strong a drift toward a seeming clearness which is. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Dartmouth College] Reference
See with agonizing clearness what he had lost in her. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations from Georg Ebers] Reference
One quality of it is its clearness, its perspicuity. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
Zest is, however, a close second to this clearness of mental vision. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
Does either phrase need to be transposed for emphasis or for clearness?. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
There are a number of propositions which I would try here to state with all clearness. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
+ -- Perspicuity is opposed to obscurity of all kinds; it means clearness of expression. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
My mousme, very much taken by it, admired the clearness of the comb and its graceful shape. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Were it not for the wonderful clearness of the air they could not have stood the heat at all. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
We would have you distinguish, with the utmost clearness, between a politician and a partisan. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
All the details of the interview presented themselves before his mind with remorseless clearness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I think the effect will be that the total argument will be presented with more clearness and force. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
He seized the strong points of a cause and presented them with clearness and great compactness. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
What water is fouled is not the water of life, or at least, not the water of life in its clearness. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
Austin not only saw and understood his own duty, but he saw with equal clearness his father's duty. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Hill House] Reference
Directed by Saniel, the examination commenced with a clearness and a precision that pleased Balzajette. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It exercises a discipline of the entire heart, sometimes irreconcilable with the clearness of the intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
These streams are instead of a looking-glass; their clearness presents us with an opportunity of seeing our own features. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
In all sentence construction with participles there should be such clearness as to preclude all possibility of ambiguity. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
He could scarcely see, the driving rain was so blinding; nor could he observe the indicators before him with any clearness. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
A hall seating three or four hundred persons demands no effort whatever beyond a certain clearness and definiteness of speech. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
It may be well to quote here a few passages of Scripture in which the doctrine of universal Atonement is stated with all clearness. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
She felt with appalling clearness that which before she had uncertainly experienced, the immodest character of that mother's beauty. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
We have casually glanced at some of them; but I think it will conduce to clearness if we present them statedly and group them together. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
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