They have hitherto been loose and vague, but though at first sight they seem minor, they will be found, in truth, of great importance to the thorough elucidation and application of the subject.

The wind was blowing briskly, and for more graphic elucidation he seized the corners of his mother's shawl and spread them out till it bellied like a sail.

Together these two papers constitute the most detailed and valuable elucidation of the doctrine that we possess.

This matter is of moment enough to justify somewhat formal elucidation.

Dr. Johnson's immense fund of knowledge and wit was a wonderful source of admiration and delight to them; but they had it only at times; and they required to have the intervals agreeably filled up, and even little elucidations of his learned text.

Both of these classes require more than a merely logical elucidation.

These ideas demand oral elucidation; but it is enough to declare them, for teachers and singers to recognize their meaning.

It was a plain elucidation of the mysteryit was enough, and all my airy castles tumbled to the earth, and left me there in wretchedness.

Retrospective elucidations are valueless and sometimes irritating.

As no satisfactory elucidation of the question propounded by Mr. Fox (No. 14.

He who is buried in scholastick retirement, secluded from the assemblies of the gay, and remote from the circles of the polite, will at once comprehend the definitions, and be grateful for such a seasonable and necessary elucidation of his mother-tongue.' Annexed to this letter is a short specimen of the work, thrown together in a vague and desultory manner, not even adhering to alphabetical concatenation[1180].

He often leaves out the best things they have written, their most striking elucidations of the matter, their happiest remarks, because he does not recognise their value or feel how pregnant they are.

The views therein expressed are remarkable for their succinct and thoroughly scientific elucidation of the two great physiological principles involved in the consideration of by far the greater majority of instances of cephalalgia.

When we ask for a less symbolical elucidation, it lies within our reach.

Grammar, like every other liberal art, can be properly taught only by a regular analysis, or systematic elucidation, of its component parts or principles; and these parts or principles must be made known chiefly by means of definitions and examples, rules and exercises.

The fact is that the whole affair is still enveloped in such a hedge of cross-statement and controversy, that in spite of having been eighty-seven years before the world, it still needs careful elucidation, and the last word upon it has certainly not yet been written.

But for the better elucidation of this arcanum, it may be expedient to consider the subject distinctly, as arranged under the following articles:

The whole affair demanded a far more complicated elucidation, when he remembered the details of it allthe cry of terror, the amazing language, the grey face of horror when his nostrils first caught the new odor; that muffled sobbing in the darkness, andfor this, too, now came back to him dimlythe man's original aversion for this particular bit of country....