Vivid

Examples

• He fixed his vivid eyes on Archer as he lit another cigarette. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• She looked like a vivid Medusa. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I feel how vivid an impression I must have produced to have been painted in such strong, such rich, such massive colours as these. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• May's blush remained permanently vivid: it seemed to have a significance beyond that implied by the recognition of Madame Olenska's social bad faith. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• From the coast inland, stretch, between flowered lanes and hedges, rolling pasture-lands of rich green made all the more vivid by th e deep reddish tint of the ploughed fields. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Beneath the brilliant light of Mars' two glorious moons the whole scene presented itself in vivid distinctness. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He stood before her, his hands in his pockets, his chest sturdily expanded under its vivid waistcoat. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Inspirited by this wind of promise, my day dreams become more fervent and vivid. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The pictures drawn in these books were so vivid, that we seemed to have experienced the results depicted by them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Our geographical isolation preserves us from any vivid sense of national contrast: our imaginations are not stirred by different civilizations. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Its belly was white, and its legs shaded from the slate of its shoulders and hips to a vivid yellow at the feet. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• In an age when religious faith was declining, we find men displaying a new and vivid belief in the reality of these personifications. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The allusion brought the colour to her cheek, and it reflected itself in Archer's vivid blush. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The most vivid thing about her was the fact that her grandmother had been a Van Alstyne. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She was suspended for a moment, then a vivid flush went over her, she was as if blinded for a moment with a flame of pleasure. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Yet it was busy, too, with all the remembrances the place naturally awakened; and they were particularly distinct and vivid. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• So short now seemed the remaining voyage of life,--so near, so vivid, seemed eternal blessedness,--that life's uttermost woes fell from him unharming. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Her face expressed vivid interest and astonishment, but nothing more. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The vivid imagination of Master Bates presented the scene before him in too strong colours. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• It takes a long perspective and no very vivid acquaintance with revolution to be melodramatic about it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Frederick turned round, right facing the lamp, where the gas darted up in vivid anticipation of the train. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• With his first calm words a vivid colour flashed into her cheeks, which never left them again during the evening. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He followed her as, wrapped in her vivid green wrap, she preceded him with the light. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Direct observation is naturally more vivid and vital. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The imagination is more vivid: the horror of capitalism is not alone in the poverty and suffering it entails, but in its ruthless denial of life to millions of men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The Ocean, The Phoenix, The Consort, The Dolphin, were passed in turns; but The Vivid was my ship, and it seemed she lay further down. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He added the last words, after there had been a vivid flash which had shown him lounging in the window. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• She had a curiously vivid dream that night, and before she had left the son of her old mistress many hours. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Had I been looking for an example of the finest expert inquiry, there would have been little question that the vivid and intensive study of Pittsburgh's industrialism was the example to use. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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