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Definition
shocking, as from disturbing details of a horrible story, or a color more vivid (bright or deep) than would be expected
- Above the temples, amidst wreathed turban folds of black drapery, vague in its character and consistency as cloud, gleamed a ring of white flame, gemmed with sparkles of a more lurid tinge.Chapter 13 (78% in)
- 'You like Thornfield?' she said, lifting her finger; and then she wrote in the air a memento, which ran in lurid hieroglyphics all along the house-front, between the upper and lower row of windows, 'Like it if you can!Chapter 15 (20% in)
- I was aware her lurid visage flamed over mine, and I lost consciousness: for the second time in my life — only the second time — I became insensible from terror.Chapter 25 (81% in)
There are no more uses of "lurid" in Jane Eyre.
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