It not only throws the clearest light on the character and views of General Lee's great adversary, but expresses with admirable lucidity the sentiments of a large portion of the Federal people at the time.

I know not what is more remarkable; the insane lucidity of his conclusions, the humorous eloquence of his language, or his power of method, bringing the whole of life into the focus of the subject treated, mixing the conversational salad like a drunken god.

Her daughter, a child of seven, was in fact a hypnotic clairvoyant of singular lucidity, and my brother, Dr. Jacob Stillman, obtained from the mother permission to have a private séance, only the mother and child, the doctor, and myself being present.

And it will be the marvellous lucidity of the Bishop of Hippo which shall bring back to the true faith, if it is ever brought back, that part of the Roman Catholic Church which accepts the verdict of the Council of Trent, when that famous council indorsed the opinions of Pelagius while upholding the authority of Augustine as the greatest doctor of the Church.

He felt assured, however, of his mental lucidity at the moment.

She knew what Gwenda was doing because it was what, if any sustained lucidity were ever given her, she might have done herself.

The Vicar had simply waked up one day out of his confused twilight to a state of fearful lucidity and found the young man there.

This definiteness, the result of military training as well as of Gallic lucidity of thought, is not the least of the human factors in making an efficient army, where every man and every unit must definitely know his part.

It was a high note, too, of Julia's wonderful composition that, even in the long, lonely moan of her conviction of her now certain ruin, all this grim lucidity, the perfect clearance of passion, but made her supremely proud of him.

It all happened in a flashin less than a second, and it is probable, he holds, that his own voice induced an instant of swift and passing hypnosis upon himself; for as he stood there at the lectern there came upon him a moment of keen interior lucidity in which he realized beyond doubt or question what had happened.

Sonia Turgeinov's tones were transmitted in all their intrinsic, flute-like lucidity.

It all happened in a flashin less than a second, and it is probable, he holds, that his own voice induced an instant of swift and passing hypnosis upon himself; for as he stood there at the lectern there came upon him a moment of keen interior lucidity in which he realized beyond doubt or question what had happened.

He traces her malady from its incipiency, through the successive disquieting manifestations of hysteria, melancholia, and fury, broken by periods of partial and even complete mental lucidity.

In the interval he had gradually adapted himself to the new order of things; but the months of adaptation had been a time of such darkness and confusion that, from the vantage-ground of his recovered lucidity, he could not yet distinguish the stages by which he had worked his way out; and even now his footing was not secure.

The negro has not that "sad lucidity of mind" that curses his white cousin and leads to general mental wretchedness and suicide.

I take a great joy in sheer lucidity, and if any sentence of mine does not at the very first sight express my meaning, I rewrite it.

He gained his points by frank, straightforward lucidity of statement, and marvellous astuteness, combined with an imperturbable command of his temper.

All the evening he thought of this strange case, of this man whom he had believed he had cured of homicidal mania by his treatment of hypodermic injections, and who, seized by a fresh attack, had evidently had sufficient lucidity to hang himself, instead of springing at the throat of some passer-by.

But as for love, for passion, she sees it with a tragic lucidity that is almost a premonition.

In this way the army and the nation were identified as they had never been in modern Europe before, and in the fifth year of the war a leader was found in the person of General Bonaparte, who had imbued himself with the principles of the art of war, as they had been expounded by the best strategists of the old French army, and who had thus thought out with unprecedented lucidity the method of conducting campaigns.

" Here he pulled himself together again, and with an air of anxious lucidity laid a precise accent on every syllable.

But there is a certain grasp in Anne's treatment, and an astonishing lucidity.

He began to think with bloodless lucidity of his entire relationship to Ethel.

" His persistence, his gentleness, the careful lucidity of his craze drove her fairly beside herself.

For in flashes of extreme lucidity Mary put it down to Rowcliffe's coldness.