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He could no more repress it than could the skylark withhold its liquid lays from the morning light, or the mountain stream prevent its pelucid current from bubbling up in radiance and beauty.
Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884
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The ancients were accustomed to inaugurate their rulers on the banks of a pure stream, hoping that their rule, like the pelucid stream, would refresh and fructify the whole land by its benign influences.
Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884
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The male is very small in comparison to the female, and but very few in number, they each have two oblong pelucid wings.
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a well, between the body of water just mentioned, you strike a pelucid vein of it at from nineteen to twenty-two feet depth from the surface.
John B. Wyeth's Oregon, or a Short History of a Long Journey John Bound 1833
xaxat commented on the word pelucid
Very clear as in the quality of a sky or a piece of writing.
July 25, 2009