Literary notes about pellucid (AI summary)
The word "pellucid" is often used to evoke a sense of unclouded clarity, whether describing literal transparency in nature or metaphorical lucidity in expression. In many works, it vividly characterizes natural elements—crystalline waters that reveal hidden depths and landscapes bathed in clear light [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. At the same time, authors employ the term to illustrate clear thought or refined composition, as seen in references to a lucid mind or an exquisitely clear literary style [7, 8, 9, 10]. This dual usage underscores a broader literary affinity for portraying both the tangible beauty of the natural world and the intangible brilliance of clear, unambiguous perception [11, 12].
- In the pellucid waters swim jelly-fish of exquisite tints.
— from America, Volume 5 (of 6) by Joel Cook - The water is cold, of a green color, and so pellucid that the rough rocky bottom may be seen at great depths.
— from Camping in the Canadian Rockies an account of camp life in the wilder parts of the Canadian Rocky mountains, together with a description of the region about Banff, Lake Louise, and Glacier, and a sketch of early explorations. by Walter Dwight Wilcox - Above the dark margin of the earth appeared foreshores and promontories of coppery cloud, bounding a green and pellucid expanse in the western sky.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy - Imagine a sea of pellucid water, and in the centre of it a spherical mass of denser and darker water.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike - A slight frothy flake arose as the wind blew along the pellucid waters; and many a dash of spray was blown into my face.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne - Then Naples, gleaming white in the eye of day over her pellucid depths of sea.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various - How pellucid is thy word, though its music issues from the land of destruction!…
— from The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Nahum Slouschz - and without causing a thought to stir, takes us into the pellucid mind.
— from The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative by George Meredith - Tennyson's composition is pellucid and exquisitely refined.
— from Studies in Literature and History by Lyall, Alfred Comyn, Sir - His adoration naturally only deepened itself as all hope at once receded, as it could not but recede before the absolute pellucid truth of her.
— from T. Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett - The dangerous glint in her pellucid hazel eyes was lost on Billy.
— from Outside Inn by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Kelley - Later on he would see her bright, pellucid eyes, like shallow water, and know those.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
