Use vivid in a sentence
Sentences starting with vivid
- Vivid and dazzling lightnings had flashed through the wreaths of white dust that shrouded them, as their gold armor reflected the sun. [10]
Sentences ending with vivid
- The day of the great test came, hot, brilliant, vivid. [11]
- No character in the book strikes me as more masterly than that of Beatrix; its conception is fresh, and its delineation vivid. [14]
- I tried the telescope again, and again everything was vivid. [5]
- All that she saw during this last visit to London impressed her deeply--so much so as to render her incapable of the immediate expression of her feelings, or of reasoning upon her impressions while they were so vivid. [14]
- The atmosphere of my wedding-day is no less vivid. [9]
- Now she had made it vivid. [9]
- All at once I felt in my head "the ring of fire" of which Mathilde had warned me, a maddening heat filled my veins, and that hateful picture grew more vivid. [11]
- The incidents arrived haphazard as magic lanthorn views, but very vivid. [9]
Short sentences using vivid
- Moor praised your vivid imagination. [10]
Sentences containing vivid two or more times
- There are vivid fights, vivid and biting insults, vivid love-passages; there are tragedies and comedies, there are griefs that go to one's heart, there are sayings and doings that make you laugh: indeed, the whole thing is exactly like real life. [5]
More example sentences with the word vivid in them
- But as I write, the vivid recollections are those that I set down. [9]
- Archibius's thoughts lingered with his beloved Queen, and his vivid power of imagination conjured before his mind everything which could distress her. [10]
- He was living with a past which had been everlasting distant, and had now become a vivid and buffeting present. [11]
- Always on the wing, as we were, and merely pausing a moment to catch fitful glimpses of the wonders of half a world, we could not hope to receive or retain vivid impressions of all it was our fortune to see. [5]
- Our wanderings were wide and in many directions; and now I could give the reader a vivid description of the Big Trees and the marvels of the Yo Semite--but what has this reader done to me that I should persecute him? [5]
- A fleet of white clouds, like ships pressed with sail, hurried across the sky as though racing for some determined port; and the shadows they cast along the hillsides accentuated the high brightness of the day, emphasized the vivid and hateful beauty of the landscape. [9]
- Only a little while before he had had one of those vivid dreams of Virginia which left their impression, but not their substance, to haunt him. [9]
- The new scene which would result from this change had been conjured before the Queen's mental vision with marvellous celerity, and she described it in brief, vivid language to the architect. [10]
- With some gesticulation which added greatly to the force of the story, he gave a most terse and vivid account of Mr. John's arrival at the embankment by the grove--of his charging a whole regiment of Union volunteers. [9]
- In spots it was vivid green. [4]
- The unguessed answer was that he had never surprised her in a vivid moment. [9]
- That old life was lonely and primitive, but it had its compensating balance of bright sun, wild animal life, and an air as vivid and virile as ever stirred the veins of man. [11]
- The chief reason was a sudden, vivid sense of the terrible contrast between something infinitely great and illimitable within him and that limited and material something that he, and even she, was. [2]
- If any one wants to see how vivid is the gratitude to Columbus, let him start out among our business-houses with a subscription-paper to raise money for powder to be exploded in his honor. [4]
- My imagination, naturally vivid, stimulated by such repasts, nearly mastered me. [4]
- He drew a vivid, picture of the villain at last overtaken by the vengeance of Heaven. [5]
- All this was vivid, majestic, and unexpected; but what impressed Pierre most of all was the view of the battlefield itself, of Borodino and the hollows on both sides of the Kolocha. [2]
- Life is so vivid to the poet, that he is too eager to seize and exhaust its multitudinous impressions. [6]
- Honora has a vivid remembrance of the impression the house made on her, with its polished floors and spacious rooms filled with a new and mysterious and altogether inspiring fashion of things. [9]
- I retained a vivid remembrance of many pictures, which had been kept bright by seeing great numbers of reproductions of them in photographs and engravings. [6]
- And my most vivid remembrance is of the great trunks towering half a hundred feet in the air, with a tassel of leaves at the top, which my father said were palmettos. [9]
- Pictures--it was all vivid pictures, that awful visualisation of sorrow which, if it continues, breaks the heart or wrests the mind from its sanity. [11]
- The young beauty's vivid imagination transported her to this new and quieter life. [10]
- The young man's vivid imagination and excellent memory recapitulated every word the prelate had uttered. [10]
- Now Janet became vivid for him. [9]
- The incident lights up the Indian situation electrically, and gives one a vivid sense of the strides which the English had made and the mastership they had acquired in the land since the date of Clive's great victory. [5]
- Swinging in this tree-top, with a vivid consciousness of life, of his own capacity for action, it seemed a pity that he could not follow the drum and the flag into such contests as he read about so eagerly. [4]
- Everywhere in the town were the mold and decay that go with antiquity, and evidence of it; but I do not know that anything else gave us so vivid a sense of the old age of Heilbronn as those footworn grooves in the paving-stones. [5]
- There are some touches of description here, vivid, high-colored, not so much pictures as hints and impressions for pictures. [6]
- In a letter to Twichell Clemens presents the tragedy in a few vivid paragraphs. [5]
- Next he passed to the head, and described in vivid colors, its various pains. [10]
- The mountains seemed to have stripped themselves of snow, and the vivid sun began at once to colour the foothills with green. [11]
- The foliage seemed to consist of big bunches of pine-spines, the lower half of each bunch a rich brown or old-gold color, the upper half a most vivid and strenuous and shouting green. [5]
- But he resisted this weakness and kept mechanically about his work, opening the letters and the manuscripts before him with that curious double action of the mind common in men of vivid imaginations. [8]
- Here and there they burst out in sudden conflagrations of vivid yellow against a background of sober or sombre color, with a so startling effect as to make a body catch his breath with the happy surprise of it. [5]
- When Pierre remembered them afterwards they all seemed misty figures to him except Platon Karataev, who always remained in his mind a most vivid and precious memory and the personification of everything Russian, kindly, and round. [2]
- She stood by the window, awaiting his pleasure, watching the white mist as it rolled over the floor of the river, catching glimpses in vivid, saffron blurs of the lights of the Arundel Mill on the farther shore. [9]
- Wolf suspected that the time was not far distant when yonder monarch at the window, who had won so many victories, would have a reckoning with the Smalcalds, the allied Protestants of Germany, and his vivid imagination surrounded him with an almost mystical power. [10]
- The speaker had the power of putting those vivid pictures before one. [5]
- But whatever renders the imagination more vivid and strengthens the habit of recalling and comparing past impressions, will make the conscience more sensitive, and may even somewhat compensate for weak social affections and sympathies. [1]
- In Cleopatra's presence the image of the granddaughter of Didymus became even more vivid than that of the peerless sovereign had formerly been in Helena's. [10]
- The picture of the days and nights she had now spent for weeks with the old lady, presented in vivid characters a mixture of great and petty troubles, external and mental humiliations. [10]
- I will import the chief portion of it into this book, partly because of its intrinsic interest, and partly because it gives such a vivid idea of what the perilous pastime of Alp-climbing is. [5]
- In both classes the change of colour is sometimes seasonal, and the tints of the naked parts sometimes become more vivid during the act of courtship. [1]
- Every portion of the building blazed with gold and vivid coloring; the painter's hand had added life to the marble groups in high relief that filled the pediments and the smaller figures in the long row of metopes. [10]
- In many species the body presents strongly contrasted, though lurid tints, and these become more vivid during the breeding-season. [1]
- So vivid was that picture that I could hear Mr. Carvel say: "He is yours, madam, not mine. [9]
- With distance from that noble adventure, something of the glow of a lover's relations had gone, and the subsequent tender enthusiasm of mind and memory was not vivid enough to make him daring or--as he would have said--reckless for its sake. [11]
- I cannot get that night out of my head, it was so vivid, so real, so ghastly. [5]
- I was satisfied that I could see all these details with my naked eye; but when I tried it, that mule and those vivid people had wholly vanished, and the house itself was become small and vague. [5]
- The fragrant marshes that bordered it were a vivid green under the slanting rays of the sun, and she was gazing across them at the breakers crashing on the beach beyond. [9]
- His brain worked swiftly, but everything that passed before his eyes was, as it were, in a kaleidoscope, vivid and glowing, but yet intangible. [11]
- Austen's face was sunburned, but it flushed a more vivid red under the tan. [9]
- Should the author succeed in making the picture of the remarkable woman, who was so differently judged, as "lifelike" and vivid as it stamped itself upon his own imagination, he might remember with pleasure the hours which he devoted to this book. [10]
- It was a strange sight, for the water was a vivid green, and the man wore garments of white and scarlet, and looked a part of some strange mosaic: as one has seen astonishing figures set in balls of solid glass. [11]
- The trees were still in full leaf, the fields green, though the crops had been gathered, and the crystal air gave vivid value to every colour in the landscape. [9]
- As soon as she heard his voice a vivid glow kindled in her face, lighting up both her sorrow and her joy. [2]
- All his old recollections came before him as it were in one long, vivid flash. [6]
- No such vivid realization of summer as that. [4]
- Her father had quite enough of the spirit of hero-worship in him to make him take a vivid pleasure in the accounts of what she had heard and whom she had seen. [14]
- The face had quickly vanished, yet it had been as distinct as the most vivid picture in a dream. [10]
- As his convalescence progressed, Austen Vane fell into the habit of dropping in from time to time to chat with him, and gradually was rewarded by many vivid character sketches of Mr. Meader's neighbours in Mercer and its vicinity. [9]
- An accurate, daguerreotyped portrait of a commonplace face; a carefully-fenced, highly-cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. [14]
- I have a picture of her in my mind which was graven there, clear and sharp and vivid, sixty-three years ago. [5]
- It was a perfect evening of early June, the great lawn a vivid green in the slanting light. [9]
- Venters grasped the peculiar, vivid, vital something that leaped from her face. [13]
- Again--" Thus his oracle, but Jean Jacques' voice suddenly died down, for, as he sat there, the face of a woman made a vivid call of recognition. [11]
- After many years only vivid snatches of what I saw and heard and did at Temple Bow come back to me. [9]
- The mere sight of suffering, independently of love, would suffice to call up in us vivid recollections and associations. [1]
- The first sensation of our host was no doubt astonishment, but he was soon laughing over a vivid account of our adventures on the keel boat. [9]
- The future prospects of his family, till now so uncertain, were hardly inferior to those which his vivid imagination had painted the night before. [10]
- And this mention of boon companionship brought up to Honora a sufficiently vivid idea of Mr. Pembroke's characteristics. [9]
- I can see now the heavy stone pillars of its portico vignetted in a flush of tenderest green, the tulips just beginning to flame forth their Easter colours in the well-kept beds, the stately, well-groomed evergreens, the vivid lawns, the clipped hedges. [9]
- Jenny's imagination was no less vivid, but she used it merely to behold in the form most congenial to her nature and sense of beauty what faith commanded her to accept. [10]
- And although she never again saw that farm-house, its details and surroundings come back to her in vivid colours when she closes her eyes. [9]
- The travelers were much impressed with the brilliant chambers, the floors of which were painted in alternate stripes of vivid green and red. [4]
- All that their mother beheld in vivid dreams, which she often strove with wanton extravagance to realize, has surrounded them from their birth and early satiated them. [10]
- In the narrow meadow, a strip of vivid green south of the house, ran a little stream, fed by a copious spring, and over it was built the inevitable spring-house. [4]
- His thoughts grew marvellously vivid, and image after image rose before the wide eyes of his soul, not at his own behest, but as if summoned by a secret will outside of his consciousness. [10]
- The news that Marcus' mother Mary had sent for Herse had reached the singer, and his vivid fancy painted his wife as surrounded by a thousand perils, threatened by the widow, and carried before the judges. [10]
- The comb of many gallinaceous birds is highly ornamental, and assumes vivid colours during the act of courtship; but what are we to think of the dull- coloured comb of the condor, which does not appear to us in the least ornamental? [1]
- The Prairie Star made quivering and luminous curtains of red for the windows, and Jen's mind was quivering in vivid waves of feeling just the same. [11]
- His vivid imagination made her twenty years younger, and how beautiful she still was, how winningly she could glance and smile. [10]
- His grey eyes looked out cheerfully and observantly, but had a vivid sparkle when he was excited and began to twitch his thick, sensual mouth. [10]
- Both play and lecture must be vivid, varied, picturesque, stimulating, or the audience would tire before the allotted time was over. [6]
- His earlier and later experiences came up before him, fragmentary, incoherent, chaotic even, but vivid as reality. [6]
- The stalks of late flowers lay withering, but here and there the leaves were still vivid, and clusters of crimson berries gleamed in the autumn sunshine. [9]
- No one but Kipling could do this strong and vivid thing. [5]
- That picture of it was still as clear and vivid to me as a photograph. [5]
- The interest in it is vivid and constant; the interest in other topics is fleeting. [5]
- The whole scene is as vivid in my mind as any earthly landscape. [4]
- The tale, now included in his collected works, is, for some reason, little read to-day; yet the curious allegory, so vivid in its seeming reality, is well worth consideration. [5]
- His excellence consists in sudden and brilliant touches, in vivid exhibitions of passion and emotion. [4]
- She liked him in his grave mood even better than when he was aflame with an internal fire of his own creation, when he was almost wildly vivid with life. [11]
- Nevertheless it is improbable that the diversified, vivid, and contrasted colours of certain quadrupeds, for instance, of the above monkeys and antelopes, can thus be accounted for. [1]
- The most vivid impression, however, made upon the visitor in this walk was that of paint. [4]
- The principal facts, however, are too vivid upon my recollection to be soon forgotten. [3]
- I don't know how else to account for the formality and vapidity of a set "party," where all the guests are clothed in a manner to which they are unaccustomed, dressed into a condition of vivid self-consciousness. [4]
- The memory of his talk with Rosalie was vivid to him at the moment. [11]
- I didn't enjoy his gush, but I thought a lot of his similes were ever so vivid and good. [5]
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