This very morning, in class, that gentleman had favoured me with a glance which he seemed to have borrowed from Vashti, the actress; I had not at the moment comprehended that blue, yet lurid, flash out of his angry eye; but I read its meaning now.
But a kind of lurid brilliancy spread over the island, against which stood out confusedly the wooded masses of the heights.
The other was as good as a bonfire, being an eruption of Vesuvius, and very lurid indeed, for the Bay of Naples was boiling like a pot, the red sky raining rocks, and a few distracted people lying flat upon the shore.
Stephen, watching her with that look of desperation which had come over him like a lurid light, approached slowly from the door, seated himself close beside her, and grasped her hand.
How can I hope to be ever set at large again" (he said), "who have been imprisoned so justly for stealing so handsome a motor-car in such an audacious manner, and for such lurid and imaginative cheek, bestowed upon such a number of fat, red-faced policemen!
She found me reading a book one day called, The Lurid Mystery of the Haunted Hall.
" It seemed so easy to talk to Barney Snaith, someway—this terrible Barney Snaith of the lurid tales and mysterious past—as easy and natural as if talking to herself.
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Stanford University, US 4、: At Stanford, California, graduating students wear a lurid pink and orange stole instead of the traditional hood.
Sometimes, with a lurid flame, memory would light up a picture of life which had never faded from his heart.
