perspicuous

• The suggestion and description wrought upon the imagination of West, and induced him to make a drawing, which he shewed to Mr. Henry, who commended it as a perspicuous delineation of the probable circumstances of the event, and requested him to paint it. —  The Life, Studies, And Works Of Benjamin West, Esq.
• Millot is concise, perspicuous, and well selected. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1.
• The images are to be drawn from rural life; and provided the language is perspicuous, gentle, and flowing, the sentiments may be as elegant as the country scenes can furnish.—In the particular comparison of passages between Pope and Philips, the former is so much superior, that one cannot help wondering, that Steele could be thus imposed upon, who was in other respects a very quick discerner. —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753), Vol. V.
• The character of his argument was a perspicuous, easy, onward, accumulative, reasoning statement. —  Brave Men and Women
• This is accomplished in a series of lectures written in a perspicuous, pleasing style, and treating of the various studies pursued in a well regulated school for young ladies. —  Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman

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