luculent

• Theombrotus Ambraciotes persuaded I know not how many hundreds of his auditors, by a luculent oration he made of the miseries of this, and happiness of that other life, to precipitate themselves. —  The Anatomy of Melancholy
• Robinson Papers: doubtless very luculent to Robinson, who is now home in England, but remembers many a thing. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16
• Theodoric is one of the most luculent testimonies for that blending of fact and fancy in strictly historical times which people find it so difficult to believe, but which offers the key, and the only true key, for many of the most perplexing problems, both of history and of mythology. —  Roman and the Teuton
• I have heard, for example, a luculent description of poor _Allister Campbell_, and another drudge of the same class, running a race after dinner for a new pair of breeches, which Mr. David Bridges, tailor in ordinary to this northern potentate, -- himself a wit, a virtuoso, and the croupier on that day in lieu of Rigdum, -- had been instructed to bring with him, and display before the threadbare rivals. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
• Gibbon for once arises from defect of information; and when in a note he observes that Mosheim "unfolds the causes with the judgment of a philosopher," while Fleury "transcribes and translates with the prejudices of a Catholic priest," himself gives a luculent example of the errors of philosophy, and of the often unsuspected approach of prejudice to truth. —  The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II

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