All 5 Uses of
lucid
in
Little Dorrit
- Mr Plornish ... considered, found himself unequal to the task of lucid explanation, and appealing to his wife, said, "Sally, you may as well mention how it was, old woman."
Chpt 1.12 *lucid = explaining clearly
- To this lucid address, which Mr Plornish always delivered as if he had composed it (as no doubt he had) with enormous labour, Mrs Plornish's father pipingly replied: 'I thank you kindly, Thomas, and I know your intentions well, which is the same I thank you kindly for.†
Chpt 1.31
- Bar had devoted his leisure in the street to the construction of a most ingenious man-trap for catching the whole of his jury at a blow; having got that matter settled in his mind, it was lucid on the late catastrophe, and they walked home slowly, discussing it in every bearing.†
Chpt 2.25
- Mr Plornish amiably growled, in his philosophical but not lucid manner, that there was ups you see, and there was downs.†
Chpt 2.27
- 'The nephew, being, as the lucid Madame Flintwinch has remarked, a poor devil who has had everything but his orphan life frightened and famished out of him—the nephew abases his head, and makes response: "My uncle, it is to you to command.†
Chpt 2.30
Definition:
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(lucid) of a person: capable of thinking clearly
or:
of language: clearly expressed so it is easily understood