Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sorely grieved by the death of an elder sister, who had read to him the story of the Arabian Nights, which aroused in him such a great spirit of imagination. He stole into the death chamber of his sister and received those impressions, which make up his charming and vivid narrative published many years later...
...these men's researches. and while every man may push on for himself as far as he can into the knowledge of religious truths, there is no reason why he must put off, until he knows all truth, the practice of that which he already knows. he gave a vivid portrayal of the attempts of missionaries to correct the cannibals of the pacific Islands. It is men like these that move the world, and their spirit is what young men need...
Certain phases of English life in London and elsewhere, he set forward in a most vivid and entertaining manner. One almost felt that he was among the people himself, and was himself noting down their peculiarities of character, manner and custom. He spoke about the trial of Mrs. Besant; of various London Clubs which he visited; of an Oxford commemoration exercise he attended, and of different people he met, always noting the peculiar national traits, which are foreign to our American ideas...
...that so well-written and vivid a story as "A Fool's Fancy", by H. B. Eddy, should have such a weak and careless ending. The expedient of putting the outcome of the plot into words adapted to a child's understanding was a happy and effective one, but to end the whole thing in such words was to carry the story to an anti-climax...
...large grasp of facts in the study of the social problems of the hour is the ambition of all earnest men. A short hour spent in listening to the facts presented by Mr. Hadley, will give more vivid and full information than much reading. At Yale last Spring, his address was heard by over five hundred students and was very enthusiastically received...