PERSPICUOUS in a Sentence

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For a mind so perspicuous as that of d'Artagnan, this indulgence was a light by which he caught a glimpse of a better future.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERSPICUOUS
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perspicuous
 a.  (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
Classic Sentence:
1  Connie realized that his so-called genius was just this: a perspicuous talent for personal gossip, clever and apparently detached.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
2  For a mind so perspicuous as that of d'Artagnan, this indulgence was a light by which he caught a glimpse of a better future.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE
3  Joe recited this couplet with such manifest pride and careful perspicuity, that I asked him if he had made it himself.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
4  Indeed, such activity, perspicuity, and ubiquity as his had never been seen or thought of.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
5  I must have read very perspicuously, or the poor soul must have been deeply interested, for I remember she had a cloudy impression, after I had done, that they were a sort of vegetable.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
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