lucid

[T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.

Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes, / With the Fourth-month eve at sundown, and the gray smoke lucid and bright, […]

The atmosphere was unusually clear, as if loath to part with the daylight; but the moon, like a round of lucid snow, had risen on the sky; and a pale, soft gleam, came from the lam…