[Footnote 1: For a full and lucid account see the official Report by the Comando Supremo on the Battle of Vittorio Veneto, 24th October2nd November 1918.]

The sonnet I send you has small merit as poetry; but you will be curious to read it when I tell you it was written in my prison-house in one of my lucid intervals.

I thought I saw a lucid interval in George the other night: he broke in upon my studies just at tea-time, and brought with him Dr. Anderson, an old gentleman who ties his breeches' knees with packthread, and boasts that he has been disappointed by ministers.

Meantime, light-shadowing all, a sober calm Fleeces unbounded ether, whose least wave Stands tremulous, uncertain where to turn The gentle current, while, illumined wide, The dewy-skirted clouds imbibe the sun, And through their lucid veil his softened force Shed o'er the peaceful world.

For him the Spring Distils her dews, and from the silken gem Its lucid leaves unfolds; for him the hand Of Autumn tinges every fertile branch With blooming gold, and blushes like the morn.

1 Far from the sun and summer-gale, In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon strayed, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face: the dauntless child Stretched forth his little arms, and smiled.

But their opiates affect a race addicted to physical repose, to sensuous enjoyment rather than to sensual excitement, and to lucid intellectual contemplation, with a sense of serene delight as supremely delicious to their temperament as the dreamy illusions of haschisch to the Turk, the fierce frenzy of bhang to the Malay, or the wild excitement of brandy or Geneva to the races of Northern Europe.

"You know," he replied, "the kind of mysterious perception to which we can resort, and are probably aware how strangely lucid in some points, how strangely darkened in others, is the vision that does not depend on ordinary human senses?" As we spoke we had passed Eunané once or twice, walking backwards and forwards along the path near which she sat.

We in Europe do not seem to be so lucid.

I think myself we have been, and are still, fatally and disastrously not lucid.

Kant's lucid thought told us long ago that the peace of the world demanded a world union of republics.

The shadows of evening were falling as he approached, and the enamoured princess thus addressed him from her balcony: "May happiness attend thee ever, thou, Whose lucid features make this gloomy night Clear as the day; whose perfume scents the breeze;

Herea cow and rabbit couchant, and co-extensiveso objects show, seen through the lucid atmosphere of fine Cathay.

It became one of her young nights, her alive and lucid nights.

The primal government of the chapel is in the hands of four deacons; but they are not very officious like some pillars of the church: one of them is mild and obliging, the second is wise-looking and crotchety, the third is disposed to pious rampagiousness in his lucid intervals, and the fourth is a kindly sort of being, with a moderate respect for converted dancers and hallaleujah men.

He is a little gentleman, with considerable penetration and power; has a good theological faculty; is cool, genial, and lucid in language;

It was incomparably the best purely critical treatise which had hitherto appeared in our language, both synthetically in its definition and application of principles, and particularly in its lucid, exact, and purely discriminating analysis.

Cromwell had a lucid interval of considerable duration.

Perhaps the value and validity of the conclusions he records in this volume may be questioned from the very circumstance that he expresses them in the lucid and vigorous style of an accomplished man of letters.

As far as our observation extends, Lord Macaulay, alone of all Great-Britons, has neglected to add the latter lucid construction to the graces of his style.]

"Wythe" by a pains-taking and lucid adjustment of facts in the history of the Government, both before and after the adoption of the Constitution, and with a rigor of logic, that cannot, it is thought, be successfully encountered, has put to flight forever with unbiased minds, every doubt as to the "Power of Congress over the District of Columbia.

And in her look, a look that for the moment was divinely lucid, Gwenda saw Ally's secret and hidden kinship with herself.

His entries were very like telegrams, in which a man attempts to express in a lucid shorthand all manner of things that the actual words hardly compass.

VI. Men laugh at bards who live in clouds The clouds beneath me gather now, Or gliding slow in solemn crowds, Or singly, touched with sunny glow, Like mystic shapes in snowy shrouds, Or lucid veils on Beauty's brow.

I believe that even Xantippe had her lucid intervals of amiability, during which she fondled her Socrates.

And as a cobra's head spits venom, it spat forth a thin, steel-blue stream of lucent fire.

She hesitated; and a lucent mischief woke in her eyes.

Beneath, a green twilight lingeredtwilight which held a gem-like glow, chill and lucent and steady as that of an emerald.

<Luc, lum, lus> (light): (1) lucid, translucent, luminous, illuminate, luminary, luster, illustrate, illustrious; (2) lucent, Lucifer, lucubration, elucidate, pellucid, relume, limn.

It may have been, nay, must have been, the innocence born of the lucent chloroform, reflected in my own face; but I was certain that the mirror and the Axtell house contained two pictures that were the one like the other.

* "While he, from forth the closet, brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd; With jellies smoother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrups tinct with cinnamon; Manna and dates, in argosy transferr'd From Fez; and spiced dainties, every one, From silken Samarcand to cedar'd Lebanon.

Oh, little sister, I loved so well; It seems to me almost as if she died In that lost time so gay and fair, And was buried in childhood's sunny plain; And she who walks the street to-day, Or in gilded carriage sweeps through the town Staring her humbler sisters down, With her jewels gleaming like lucent flame, Proud of her grandeur and fine array, Is only a stranger, who bears her name.

She stood in mute astonishment before the faultless gift, this perfect bit of Beroviero crystal,opalesque and lucent, reflecting hidden rainbow tints, enhanced by the golden traceries delicate and artisticthe beautiful young face framed in those sea-gems dear to the Venetian heart, each pearl a study of changing light.

And foremost among the productions, most marvelous for beauty, was a fabric of their lucent crystalthou knowest it, Marina?

~A Modern Instance.~ Her little hand in his he took, All hot and quivering it was; And noted how her eyes did look Bright as a lucent sapphire does.

[Horace]; against the sunbeams serotine and lucent

On Ida's top The sun, discovering first an earthly throne, Sits down in splendor: lucent vapors rise From folded glens among the awaking hills, Expand their hovering films, and touch, and spread In airy planes beneath us, hearths of air Whereon the morning burns her hundred fires. II.

But the vision was peeping over the bannisters at him, and the vision's eyes were sparkling with a lucent mischief and a wonderful, half-hushed contralto was demanding of him: "Oh, where have you been, Billy boy, Billy boy?

But a lucent somethinghalf fear, half gladnesswas wakening in Billy's eyes.

Beyond the groves a lucent palace shone In grandest splendor near an inner zone; In amethyst and gold divinely rose, With glories scintillant the palace glows.

And waking, I beheld her there Sea-dreaming in the moted air, A Siren sweet and debonair, With wristlets woven of colored weeds, And oblong lucent amber beads Of sea-kelp shining in her hair.

It was a study to visit her tiny pantry, where all these "lucent sirops" stood in tempting array,where spices, and sugar, and tea, in their small jars, flanked the sweetmeats, and a jar of glass showed its store of whitest honey, and another stood filled with crisp cakes.

The street-lamps sent up their rays, making the room semi-lucent.

And Syracuse with pensive mien, In solitary pride, Like an untamed, but throneless queen, Crouched by the lucent tide; With honeyed thyme still Hybla teemed, Its scent each zephyr bore, And Arethusa's fountain gleamed Pellucid as of yore.

The bulk of the man partly blotted out the lucent spot where the river wasnow his arm, now his head, now the breadth of his shoulders.

Procyon goes before the Dog; the noble constellation of Orion stretches broad across the sky; almost overhead lucent Capella looks down.

Lucent genialibus altis Aurea fulcra toris, epulæque ante ora paratæ Regifico luxu:

'A day of commingled lucent clarity and vernal softness, ain't it?' "'Well, I wouldn't care to bet on that without going a little deeper into the subject,' says I; 'but it smells good at leastso does that ham and eggs.

Strathsay goes about as of old, and sees there be no speck on the buttery-shelves, that the sirup of her lucent plums be clear as the light strained through carbuncles, her honeycombs unbroken, her bread like manna, and no followers about her maids.

In the still woods, and the hot sun shone down, Crossed with warm lucent shadows on the brown Leaf-paven pools, that bubbled dreamily, Or far away in whispering river meads