| 单词 | limpid |
| 例句 | By the lower river where the wagon came were washing pools, with water all year flowing in limpid spillways that no grime withstood. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the days, sliding one into the other, languorous and limpid, the sun lingering until very late, seemed to be waiting. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She stared at the limpid, naked sky looking for traces of a cloud, hoping that sooner or later a drop of rain would fall to break the unbearable harshness of that lunar valley. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We heard the piano start up in the parlor, a limpid, haunting melody; Harry had been pressed into playing for our visitors. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z She crouched beside the parapet and trailed her hot hand in the limpid water, letting the tinkle and splash of the fountain make her mind a harmless blank. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Her eyes were soft brown, limpid and innocent. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z All around them the wide, clear morning lay limpid in the hollows and pearly blue in the warm air above. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Green hedges, dazzling with red wild roses appeared behind my eyes, stretching with a gentle curving to an infinity empty of objects, a limpid blue space. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Every time my limpid contribution was read, I wanted to sink behind my chair rather than face the condescending stares of the Mitchison women. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Eratosthenes’ limpid inference does conceal a few additional assumptions, and some difficulties. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z In stark contrast to the darkness of his hair, though, his eyes are limpid and blue. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Black prow by prow those hulls were made fast in a limpid calm without a ripple, stillness all around them. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Imbrailo’s limpid and smoothly flowing rendition of Jonson’s “Farewell, thou child of my right hand” was joined by a fleeting, radiant flute solo. Music Review: A Celebration of Orchestral Excellence at Spring for Music 2014-05-06T09:39:39Z Similarly, Preljocaj's intensely expressive movement opens under pressure of driven, primitive dynamics, gradually spreading out into a limpid, meditative fin. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-08-10T23:05:36Z Told in alternating chapters by the title character and her maid, it pulls us in from its first limpid lines and then detonates with an explosion of power — much like Emily Dickinson’s poems. ‘Miss Emily,’ by Nuala O’Connor: a fictional look at the Belle of Amherst 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Visually it resembles the murky, moody aesthetic of the show’s first season, which starred Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as detectives investigating a murder in a limpid, dishevelled Louisiana. True Detective: watch Mahershala Ali in the trailer for the long-awaited third season 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z “It is a way to understand Paris in a very limpid way,” Ms. Flay said recently. At FIAC, a Museum Cruise Along the Seine 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Prudently trimmed, the work emerges as a Rossinian lark with a handful of limpid arias that aspire to Donizetti. Critic’s Notebook: Glimmerglass Offers an Ambitious Spread of Works 2013-07-22T22:01:46Z Every page of “The Mirror of My Heart” shows why, whether through the limpid beauty of the poems themselves or in his command of a diction that ranges from the elegant to the slangy. Review | At last, we hear the beautiful — and sometimes bawdy — Persian poems by women 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z The Prokofiev worked better, but the tessitura was often too high, giving the limpid flute lines an uncomfortable, steely edge near the top of the clarinet register. Clarinet’s limitations prove challenging for Ukrainian soloist 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z A prolific author often compared to Anton Chekhov and known for his limpid French prose, Mr. Makine used the pen name since 2001 to write novels about the world’s cruelty and human quest for transcendence. ArtsBeat: Who is Gabriel Osmonde? A French Literary Mystery is Solved 2011-04-01T17:40:04Z That’s been annoying for some people who prefer limpid beauty to psychological torment. Ian Bostridge on Schubert’s Hidden Depths 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z Light but large, marvelously limpid, the style of classical ballet that American Ballet Theater as a company now possesses is often on the verge of greatness. Dance Review: Under an Enchantment and Catching Z?s for a Century, but With Both Eyes Open 2011-07-06T22:11:45Z As Boo, Ms. Greenfield is an appealing blend of coltish energy and limpid emotion. Theater Review: A Hard Rain Begins to Fall on Lives in Gulfport, Miss. 2011-06-24T21:35:35Z Locals ferry visitors in golf buggies from the port to Sunj beach, a 1km strip of sand sloping gently into limpid, shallow waters on the island’s south coast. The 50 best beaches in the world 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Davis’s eyes, limpid and expressive, flash from wariness to sorrow, then back. Mackenzie Davis Catches Fire 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Are the xx the first pop act you can imagine being on ECM – the flat, cryptic titles, all those gleaming bare bones, the limpid, ultra-sparse propulsion, the sedate intensity, either spellbindingly beautiful or frustratingly repetitive? Paul Morley on music: In search of shifting sounds 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z Its color was limpid gold, and it possessed a subtle saltiness that rippled down my throat. Sipping the Pleasures of Istria 2013-08-22T19:03:39Z Banville is one of the great stylists of fiction in English and “Snow” allows the limpid cadences of his prose free rein: John Banville’s New Murder Mystery Starts Like a Game of Clue 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z Seldom is it slimmed down — certainly not to the degree that McGegan attempted: staccato brass kisses in place of usually stentorian notes, and long, limpid phrases in lieu of bombast. McGegan, BSO offer slender, uneven, but compelling Beethoven Ninth 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z Ax's pianism was limpid and free of exaggeration, most notably in his gracious give-and-take with the woodwinds in the central Andante. Haitink's mellow mastery an ideal match for CSO's power 2011-05-27T16:27:33Z But they are emotionally limpid and hard-pressed, like diamonds. Review | You might think you know Frida Kahlo, but you’ll never understand her pain 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z These brief, limpid essays and stories range widely in approach and subject, but cohere through avid curiosity and delight. New & Noteworthy, From Isabel Allende to Robert Walser 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z The Maryland artist overlaps limpid hues, echoing Morris Louis’s style if not his technique. Review | In the galleries: A sizzling exhibit crackles with creativity 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Each of the 14 tonally limpid movements depicts a kind of bird, wind or sky. Review: ‘Canticles of the Holy Wind’ Summons the Elements at the Met 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Instead of the reds and blacks of a traditional men’s club, the two men settled on booths in a limpid blue — “Cadillac convertible,” was how Mr. Charles described the color. A Contender Elbows In 2011-02-18T22:42:20Z Chiming, looping, limpid, he has Johnny Marr levels of virtuosity, astounding in someone so young. Avi Buffalo at Glastonbury 2010 2010-06-27T14:54:00Z Some of her selections, mostly in the second half, showed her voice in its best light, with limpid and floating high notes, while others revealed musical struggles. Dominique Labelle masters a subtle style at Dumbarton Oaks 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z In her limpid, orderly style, there’s both a sophistication and a hesitation linked, perhaps, to starting something new. Review: Emery LeCrone Dance and Amy Seiwert’s Imagery Balance Elements 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z The second act contains a suite of dances, including an exquisite pas de deux for two unidentified characters, set to the limpid andante from Mendelssohn’s String Symphony No. 9. When City Center Was Balanchine’s House 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Her voice is easy and firm and radiant, with a secure low and a clear limpid top, yet never calling attention to the beauty of its own sound or its own technical abilities. Review | From Schubert to Simone, a singer’s powerful statement 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Registering the artifice in Hopper’s limpid art may free us to see a link between hotel rooms and painting itself: Both magnetize desire and a longing to escape. Review | This Edward Hopper exhibition on hotels is worth an extended stay 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Still, too many limpid ballads and twinkling, twirling miniatures in sequence became soporific. Music Review: Sylvan Sounds, Meant to Be Seen 2010-10-19T22:05:00Z Ms. Aldana has a dry but limpid sound on tenor and an expressive command that stretches into an altissimo register. Review: Melissa Aldana Makes a Focused Statement in ‘Back Home’ 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z No needless wallow in the celebrated 18th variation either, with Hough limpid and restrained and Oramo, keenly attentive throughout, allowing the orchestra only briefly off the leash. First night of the Proms 2013-07-13T00:25:10Z “Rather, he distributed sonic agency among the eight ensemble members and himself to produce a supple and limpid psychic counterpoint.” Blues, jazz, electronica. It all flows through Ben LaMar Gay. 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Savannah Stehlin, presumably following Mr. Ghuman’s directions, plays Spork as a largely silent observer, her limpid gray eyes taking in the lightly surreal satire spinning out around her. | 'Spork': Life on the Fringe 2011-05-26T23:49:14Z Written in short, elliptical scenes, divided only by the sound of a bell, “Cockfight Play” has been staged with a stark and limpid formality that only underscores the churning, messy feelings beneath. Theater Review: ?Cockfight Play,? Directed by James Macdonald, at the Duke 2012-05-18T02:00:02Z The concert opener, Haydn’s Variations in F minor, was limpid and gorgeously colored, with playful flourishes that led to an explosive coda. Buttoned-down pianist Murray Perahia cuts loose in Strathmore concert 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Their debut single, Microlite, marvellously meticulous in its production, is four minutes of limpid loveliness that suggests – with its gently insistent electronic pulse, swathes of shimmering synths and aching perkiness – Vampire Weekend playing New Order. Trophy Wife (No 876) 2010-09-28T15:47:00Z Under the warm breezes and limpid skies of early fall, it seems a sort of hanging garden of old Saigon. Asian vegetables enrich and extend the autumn garden 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z The language is limpid, the sentences deliberate and grave, their cumulative power . . . immeasurable. What we can learn from two literary masters: Ursula K. Le Guin and James Salter 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Du Bois is lampooned as Dr. Shakespeare Agamemnon Beard: “In limpid prose he told of the sufferings and privations of the downtrodden black workers with whose lives he was totally and thankfully unfamiliar.” Two Classic American Novels About the Madness and Beauty of Race 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z The opening to Blue Blood is pale and limpid, with tiny sparks flaring from the guitars, but it slowly gathers force, marshalled by Jack Bevan's firecracker drums and Walter Gervers's muscular bass. Foals: Total Life Forever 2010-05-06T22:30:00Z In their brevity and briskness, the episodes reveal a turbulent depth of experience and give it limpid and crystalline form. “Cutting My Mom,” Reviewed: A Filmmaker’s Ingenious Web Series, Made in Collaboration With His Mother 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Her eyes have a limpid clarity that suggests no subterfuge. ‘Our Lady of Kibeho,’ a Katori Hall Drama Set in the 1980s 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z Ms. Kavafian played the first violin part with limpid sweetness, but again it was the violists who most often seized the spotlight with superb playing. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, With Works for Strings 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The work is a tour de force for soprano — in this case, Heather Buck — positively awash in lyricism: for at least half of its 45-minute length, limpid, flowing Straussian melody. Music: Emmanuel Villaume to Leave Spoleto Festival USA 2010-06-01T23:00:00Z A dozen of his limpid gouache renderings of Michigan houses, all masterly compositions of point, line and plane, show buildings broken into constituent walls, roofs, floors and columns. Knud Lonberg-Holm: ‘The Invisible Architect’ 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z None, really: The ultimate mystery of Kahlo’s limpid inner life is safely locked inside her little fortress of solitude. Jeffrey Vallance has a conversation with Leonardo and other giants at CB1 Gallery 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z His pictures were colorful and clear—limpid tropical light, emerald-green rice fields—and he made prints and put them up in the hospital corridors. Stories from a revolution: The beauty of leaderless Tahrir Square 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z Her top range is limpid, free of all strain and perfectly suited to the needs of the music. CD reviews: Joyce DiDonato looks at war, peace and the Baroque 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Anderson’s prose — Sylv.ie’s voice — offers a beautiful combination of naivete and wisdom, full of nonhuman puzzlements, off-kilter observations and limpid poetry: Review | In Ros Anderson’s ‘The Hierarchies,’ a robotic heroine longs for a better life 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Morgan, who died in 2007 at 73, was an alto saxophonist with a quiet but penetrating sound, limpid and centered and beautifully personal. Critic’s Notebook: Michael Connelly Wants to Make a Film About Frank Morgan 2012-06-05T21:15:15Z Her voice can be limpid and confiding or fiercely torn as she strategically reveals its startling range. Brandi Carlile, Larger Than Life and Achingly Human 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Nabokov once called editors “limpid creatures of limitless tact” whom he reveled in dismissing. With joyless prose about joyless people, Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Here I Am' is kitsch at best 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z A few words go a long way in the limpid calm of his African home. Tinariwen: Sahara to New York City 2011-08-20T23:04:07Z Mr. Ozone’s first encore was his own “Mo’s Nap” for piano and orchestra, a limpid reverie that features a halting and tender clarinet solo. Music Review: Makoto Ozone Plays With the New York Philharmonic 2014-04-23T22:00:53Z At times resembling medieval viol-consort music as daubed with a Japanese brush, the work is more rigorously constructed than it sounds: simple, plaintive motifs circle and recur, like fallen leaves caught in limpid pools. Music Review: Momenta Quartet at the Stone 2013-01-09T22:51:07Z Fifteen of them, each the size of a large notebook sheet, are on view at Loudhailer in precisely drawn, limpid rainbow hues sometimes set off by gold leaf. James Hayward's monochromatic installation delivers contemplative bliss 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Young’s tenor matches Ms. Mackey’s in its bright, limpid richness — although I couldn’t help but imagine that if a Ken doll could sing, its timbre would be similar. Review: ‘Amazing Grace,’ the Story of a Slave Trader’s Moral Awakening 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z There are moments, as Kenneth MacMillan demonstrated with such eloquence in his own 1965 version of the ballet, when a look or a limpid stillness conveys more than an ornate flurry of steps. Ecstasy and Death; Romeo and Juliet – review 2013-04-20T23:06:09Z The British soprano’s voice combines limpid clarity with laser-focused precision, but with any possible harsh edges softened in a smooth finish. Recording reviews: A limpid soprano’s chance to soar 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z The woodwinds were cleaner and more expressive than the brass, with a particularly limpid clarinet. Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra offers enthusiasm, but program is lacking His prose is as clear and limpid as water, his ear finely attuned to the timbre of the period though mercifully free from archaisms, his characters drawn with subtlety and wit. Secrecy by Rupert Thomson – review 2013-03-23T15:00:01Z It started almost songlike, with a haunting, wordless vocal melody answered by a limpid saxophone obbligato. Pairings Fulfill ‘A Night of Improvised Round Robin Duets’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z As a pianist, Ms. Rosnes is known for her breezy swing and limpid touch. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z The next day, after a three-hour, stomach-churning ride through the mountains, Jamaica’s limpid blue skies and gorgeous seashore came to view. Jamaica, Beyond the Beach 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The members of One Direction remain the musical embodiment of the Ryan Gosling “Hey Girl” meme — limpid, malleable, sensitive, here for you. One Direction made it to ‘Four,’ which is more of a feat than ‘Four’ itself Burton Watson, whose spare, limpid translations, with erudite introductions, opened up the world of classical Japanese and Chinese literature to generations of English-speaking readers, died on April 1 in Kamagaya, Japan. Burton Watson, Prolific Translator of Classical Asian Literature, Dies at 91 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z These songs are equal partnerships for singer and pianist, and Mr. Hampson had an excellent collaborator in Wolfram Rieger, who played with limpid poetry and seething tension. Music Review: Thomas Hampson Sings Schumann, Uncut, at Alice Tully 2010-04-12T22:36:00Z Black, white, gray and taupe are common, but so are limpid hues — sky blue, vivid yellow and crimson, plus an occasional green. Go to LACMA for John McLaughlin, possibly the most important postwar artist you don't know 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z The orchestra played with bristling energy in the stormy introduction, Mr. Denk rendering his opening measures with an attractively limpid sound and singing tone. Review: Jeremy Denk in a Full-Blooded Performance at Mostly Mozart 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z Plus Trudy's new business investor is like a really hot British Don Draper with limpid eyes. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-08-05T07:00:00Z And yet the apprehended city floats before the reader with a limpid and oneiric grace: a self-portrait in a constantly distorting mirror. Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner – review 2012-07-05T10:00:02Z In this book, when they are not green they are “transparent” or “limpid” or “periwinkle” or some other scintillating tint. ‘Suspended Sentences,’ Novellas by Patrick Modiano 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z On the ballad “Abundance” he fleshes out a somber cadence with limpid sustain. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-03-14T23:23:56Z The Steads, meanwhile, even to those who delight in the slightly old-fashioned, pale and limpid perfection of their style, seem oddly suited to the 19th-century vigor of the white-suited author. A Mark Twain Tale, Brought Back From the Dead 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z In limpid prose, Professor Ackerman summed up his subject’s life and career, arguing against the neoclassical view of Palladio as a cold logician. James S. Ackerman, Author of Enduring Books on Architecture, Dies at 97 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z His limpid touch and understated playing in the Bach/Siloti Prelude in B minor, his first encore, also proved entrancing. Alexandre Tharaud Plays Schubert, Couperin and Others at Zankel Hall 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z He warned, “Attention — soft song!” before playing another limpid ballad. Music Review: After Hints Of Genius, A Muse Is Expelled 2011-01-17T22:30:26Z With her round, ruddy cheeks, limpid, thoughtful eyes, gold necklace and loose white shirt rendered with deft, sensuous brushstrokes, she has an extraordinarily lifelike presence. Art Review | 'Masterpieces of European Painting From Dulwich Picture Gallery': At the Frick, Paintings From Dulwich Picture Gallery 2010-04-01T22:51:00Z Like Emily Dickinson, Herbert is limpid and enigmatic, deeply spiritual and inexhaustible, a poet one never finishes with. Book review: ‘Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert,’ by John Drury The first two tracks proved that Musgraves was a solid guitar player and a limpid singer; on “Merry-Go-Round,” her voice is supple, able to convey indignation and resignation within a single line. Kacey Musgraves, Harper Lee, and the Home-town Dilemma 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Benjamin’s limpid purity in the central female role was extraordinary, as if personality had been erased, leaving nothing but pure being. Dance Review: In 'Marguerite,' Sparks Between a New Star and a Senior Ballerina 2011-10-17T11:43:13Z Banville, Boyd adds, “is one of the great stylists of fiction in English and ‘Snow’ allows the limpid cadences of his prose free rein.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Beneath the two figures tadpoles swim in a dark but limpid pool. Piero di Cosimo, a misunderstood master, at the National Gallery of Art 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Urbino’s steep green landscape, limpid light and crystalline architecture — you can also get a good sense of it here — imprinted themselves on the artist’s young mind and surface repeatedly in his work. In the Virtual (and Actual) Footsteps of Raphael 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Soup is delivered to the table as a side, a limpid broth of pork bones and ham with a warming lick of ginger. Rice Noodles Stretching From Guangxi to the East Village 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z “The Metamorphosis of Narcissus,” by Gity Razaz, an Iranian composer, was a world apart: a narcotic mix of dreamy French horn and clarinet calls, limpid Impressionist timbres and electronically induced expanse. Music Review: A Night of Acoustic and Electronic Exploits 2011-01-29T00:05:24Z What was limpid has become a knotty matrix of unremitting virtuosity, as impressive and alienating as watching someone showing off for two hours 50 minutes, hoping against disappointed hope that they'll pause for breath. David Mitchell: 'I don't want to project myself as this great experimenter' 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z Here and throughout the program, Mr. Pace demonstrated a limpid touch, immaculate control and expressive phrasing, his approach well matched by the beautiful sound and elegant musicianship of Mr. Kavakos. Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace in Beethoven Violin Sonatas 2014-03-03T22:56:20Z Soft and limpid, this fine rosé made entirely from pinot noir tastes of cantaloupe that’s just a few hours shy of peak ripeness. 5 wines just right for the weekend 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z His sound was limpid in the first movement’s genial exposition, growing a shade more diffuse in the development of the theme. Review: Evgeny Kissin the Curator Illustrates His Breadth 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Writers are not especially known for the calm, limpid depths of their solace. I couldn’t finish my brother’s story 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z The duo went on to segue pattern into pattern, limpid and shimmering, lingering in one harmony a while and then darting together toward a new one; it was a marvel of affinity. Music Review: Round-Robin Duets at Brooklyn Masonic Temple 2013-05-02T21:52:58Z For the most part, though, because she doesn’t use narration or scrolls of text, she expresses Diego’s story — its horrors, absurdity and her attitude toward each — through her limpid visual choices and the performances. Review: In ‘Zama,’ Trying to Say Goodbye (Cruel) New World 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z But the limpid sophistication of the San Francisco style is apart from either. San Francisco Ballet’s Limpid Sophistication Shines in ‘Unbound’ 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z It was far too limpid, mercurial and seemingly fragile, a complex whisper when other bands were gnashing and barking. Playlist : Music by Wild Flag, Lindsey Buckingham and the Raincoats 2011-09-10T00:08:45Z She sings in a limpid, serene voice with Indian classical inflections. Playlist: The Grammy Awards Before the Grammys 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z In her father's house, Norah encountered a young maid with a "calm voice and limpid gaze". Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye – review 2012-07-06T21:55:12Z His generosity is animated by Moore’s limpid, precise performance. ‘Gloria Bell’ Review: Love Is in the Air for a Transcendent Julianne Moore 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Modiano tells all this in a limpid, almost classical prose that belies the ugliness of the events and facts. Patrick Modiano, winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, is a paradox It appears there’s nothing that this limpid troupe can’t do, in terms of stretching the body to spectacular extremes. Review: Nederlands Dans Theater Prizes Procedure Over Passion 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Not every song on “7” is effective, particularly the limpid “Moon” and the chaotic “On.” BTS Is Peaking. What Comes Next? 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Everything was collaborative, with neither of them working on parts alone, and for an album recorded in Hannibal's LA bedroom, it's a luscious confection, featuring woodwind, strings and brass sewn through limpid electronics. Rhye: the sounds of seduction 2013-04-13T05:00:00Z She wrote her dissertation on the metaphysical poet George Herbert, whose limpid, fervent verse touched a nerve. Chana Bloch, Poet and Hebrew Translator, Is Dead at 77 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Like her fellow New Zealander, Adcock is a literary writer in her limpid, apparently artless style and the precise emotional intelligence of her observations. Glass Wings by Fleur Adcock – review 2013-06-28T17:10:01Z English-language directors didn’t always know what to do with her, and she was often cast as the limpid love interest in films like “The Hi-Lo Country” and “All the Pretty Horses.” The Visions of Penélope Cruz 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Grabbing his cane, he strolled through his gallery, pointing to a potent red piece inspired by that foliage and a yellow one drawing on a limpid day on Jeju island. A Towering Figure in South Korean Art Plans His Legacy 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z The Old Vine Reserve shows more depth and concentration, yet there’s a limpid fluidity that keeps it fresh and vibrant. These wines — and wine cocktails — can see you through a dinner party 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z “Go for Qatar, go for Qatar!” he pleaded as he unleashed his bird into the limpid desert air. Falcon tradition inspires passion in World Cup host Qatar 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z At moments, it seemed that the clouds resembled a dazzling coral reef, set not in the sea but in the limpid blue of the sky. On Saturday, we climbed above freezing, but only for a few hours 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z In such contexts, Rousseau’s limpid, richly colored pictures of innocent subjects — jungles, big cats, the moon — can come as a relief. It’s not just a whimsical jungle painting. It’s a great artist letting his imagination run wild. Her “limpid trills and transparent pianissimos in all registers are models of the bel canto approach to coloratura singing,” Frederick M. Winship, a critic for United Press International, wrote in 1989. Edita Gruberova, dazzling operatic soprano, dies at 74 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z He offered her a job at a new observatory atop Maunakea in Hawaii, where the view to the heavens was among the most limpid on Earth. A cosmologist throws light on a universe of bias 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z In sudden squalls it can whip up white caps like cake frosting and in calms the Gulf can lie equally as limpid. Technology helps America’s Cup teams read Hauraki Gulf wind 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z You can hear it in “Seven,” possibly the album’s prettiest moment, with a limpid melody reminiscent of an old Irish air. Review: Taylor Swift's radically intimate 'Folklore' is the perfect quar album 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z In a limpid voice, Chemla sang an “Ave Maria” that sent shivers down the spine. Still scarred, Notre Dame lives anew in coronavirus crisis 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Another overlooked 90s gem, from the coolly received Hours, Something in the Air is both limpid and melancholy. David Bowie's 50 greatest songs – ranked! 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z The cuttlefish hovers in the aquarium, its fins rippling and large, limpid eyes glistening. Yes, This Cuttlefish Is Wearing 3-D Glasses 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z That was the one line in this otherwise limpid show that sounded artificial, like a newspaper held up by a hostage as proof of the date—which, in a sense, it was. Richard Nelson’s Family Cycles Capture Life in Real Time 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z A limpid definition in mathematical terms, if not exactly handy for the rest of us. The Kilogram’s Long, Slow Climb to Harmony 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Here the score withdraws into itself, exposing the ache behind the limpid melodies that Bernstein spun so effortlessly. Leonard Bernstein and the Perils of Hero Worship 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Turner used watercolor washes of it to convey the limpid radiance of Venetian dawns and sunsets. Treasures from the Color Archive 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Think muted sugar hues, deep limpid blues and fog for paint and tiles. With the death of home trends, just go for cozy, relaxed | Produced by Advertising Publications 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z Of her Met debut, George Loomis wrote in Opera magazine that her “limpid tone and delicate phrasing proved ideal for the naive, sheltered girl, as did her lithe, slightly fragile appearance.” Soprano Nadine Sierra is making her mark at a young age 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Neapolitan crime lurks at the story's edges, and the grotty coastal setting is captured to spellbinding effect in the limpid grays of dusk and dawn. Conjoined twins with a chance to live separately lend ‘Indivisible’ spellbinding power 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Well-made bone broth tends to be milky instead of pale, thick instead of limpid, and slightly touched with the sharp, calciferous reek of the abattoir. In Old Pasadena, Jonathan Gold finds a third-date place with plenty of bone broth to take home 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z She paints around him, maintaining intimate contact and swathing his sound in limpid harmonies. The Playlist: Nine Inch Nails and Shabazz Palaces Issue Retorts for Anxious Times 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z For pork fanciers, a robust pork and chicken broth buoys limpid bean thread noodles and a double hit of meat — ground pork and slices of roasted, marinated pork shoulder. Twice the Thai: Little Uncle and Soi spice up Capitol Hill 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z He formed a fruitful but complicated partnership with Art Garfunkel, a neighborhood friend who had both a limpid tenor voice and mixed feelings about being perceived merely as a lovely singer. Paul Simon’s Hot Streak 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z In the nearby town of Santiago de Acayutlán, children play in a crystalline spring – splashing and diving into the limpid waters, while their parents look on approvingly. Mexico City's water crisis – from source to sewer 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z I have appropriated their clear and limpid language and transformed it into a hysterical cacophony. Patrick Modiano, True Detective 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z He could converse—and converse easily, naturally, with idiom and parlance and a certain nonchalance—on all sorts of subjects: Tony Blair’s earnest righteousness, Timberland boots, the limpid prose of Bruce Chatwin. Love and War 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z She flicked her eyes up at me, her gaze limpid and accusatory. “The Prospectors” 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z If you are fortunate enough to encounter a seal on a beach, do not be fooled by the siren’s song of its limpid, dark eyes. In Winter, Harbor Seals Become New York’s Beach Bums 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z The photomontage pictured the Gloria Marina, the main dock on the Guanabara Bay, as a pristine, undeveloped cove of sheer rocks, with a limpid waterfall and sailboats anchored in clear turquoise waters. Tourism Ministry removes fake photos of Rio bay 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z A limpid, sunny day with a high of 83. New York Today: A Better Egg Sandwich 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z They drove past public parks, open spaces and golf courses and stopped at the Union Reservoir, still and limpid under a cloudy sky. With Ban on Fracking, Colorado Town Lands in Thick of Dispute 2012-11-26T01:14:39Z And another thing: it must be pretty hard to look into your prehomosexual toddler's limpid eyes, brush away the cookie crumbs from her cheek and toss her out on the streets for being gay. Is Your Child Gay? 2012-07-06T14:15:00.207Z The loveliness of the morning had then seemed their own fresh discovery: the light as limpid as the water, birdsong skimming the flat echoless air, the sun’s touch intricate on their skin. Tessa Hadley: “An Abduction.” 2012-07-02T04:00:00Z Get put on hold often enough, wander through enough retail stores or tacky cocktail lounges, and sooner or later its limpid strains will caress you. The Elusive Girl From Ipanema 2012-06-30T04:08:13Z With dry throats, gasping, many among them were on the point of breaking down when they looked upon the limpid water of the "saqiya" and heard its tempting trickling. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z The monstrous Mississippi or the thundering Niagara would spoil such a miniature paradise; but the limpid Laune and O’Sullivan’s babbling cascade suit it exactly. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z The eyes are dark, limpid, ingenuous; the mouth expresses sensibility. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z And the pale girl up at Poole, with the sculptured chin, never blushed at all, but looked at him with frank and limpid eyes as if he were entirely a matter of course. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z The crowd would press and jostle To hear their favourite warbler, from whose throat, Clear as the lark, and mellow as the throstle, The limpid melody would soar and float. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, Nov. 11, 1887 2012-04-02T02:00:24.930Z And there it was he slept under the dark blue tent of the star-studded sky and his chest expanded, breathing the limpid air of desert nights. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z It has rushing, limpid rivers above, and boiling, roaring ones below. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z These were, for instance, the Naiades, beautiful water nymphs, who dwelt in the limpid depths of the fountains, and were considered local patrons of poetry and song. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z A flash of sudden, angry resentment crossed the girl's fair face, and tears again welled up to the edges of her limpid eyes. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z His literary style is a simple and limpid medium that leaves behind unfading pictures of country and town; he has done what Balzac calls adding new beings � l'�tat civil. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z A limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The limpid, rushing river flows on among meadows and pastures of the brightest verdure, adorned with stately trees, and bright in summer-time with innumerable flowers. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z As she bent over the limpid waters, she suddenly beheld her puffed cheeks and distorted features, and impetuously threw the instrument into the water, vowing never to touch it again. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z Cloudless shines the limpid day, Shine by night the Pleiades; While a grateful summer breeze Makes the season soft and gay. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z The sun beat warmly on the limpid water, in which the swarms of little fish, looking like vivified marks of exclamation, were ceaselessly flashing about. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z A limpid, colorless, highly volatile liquid, obtained by the dehydration of glycerin, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats containing glycerin. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The river that rushes past the ruins of Boyle Monastery is not only clear but limpid. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z With the sun’s returning beam, First appearance from the east, Dimpling every limpid stream, Up from rest. Random Rhymes and Rambles 2012-03-21T02:00:31.003Z Thick umbrageous forests gave it a character of gloom and wildness; but a gushing stream of limpid water which ran through it was sufficient to redeem every disadvantage. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z During convalescence the urine is usually increased in quantity, is pale and limpid, and of low specific gravity, and is found to contain the chlorides in gradually increasing quantity. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Long and deeply he looked into the limpid depths that returned his unwavering gaze. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z But without its ivy and its limpid river, the ruined Monastery of Boyle, grand and interesting as it is, would lose a great deal of its attractions. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z In Italy it is called aqua di Tufinia: no one can avoid its attacks, since the liquid is as limpid as water, and cannot be suspected. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z From these three instruments Mr. Kahane extracts crooning love songs and comic Savoyard duets, limpid country airs and a deliciously dissonant Britten parody. | Connecticut: A Review of ?February House? at Long Wharf Theater in New Haven 2012-03-04T00:48:11Z The bull� may be well distended and filled with a perfectly limpid serum. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z And still more she cried when she raised her head and saw Edith's shower of scintillant hair, and the two little Lakes of Como brimming over with limpid tears. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z In its depths laughs or murmurs a limpid stream that can rarely be noticed, such is the thickness and luxuriance of the trees and shrubs that overhang it. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z Having succeeded in reaching a more limpid part of the liquor, its form was so distinct that Mr. Patrix, who was with me, was enabled to take an exact drawing of its configuration.” Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z His voice at the morning staff meetings was singular, like a limpid flute within a jangling orchestra. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Howard Kissel, A Man Who Relished Culture 2012-03-01T16:03:00Z Craig found eight and twelve ounces of a limpid fluid in two cases; and Tourdes found pus in more than one-half of his cases, either unmixed or forming a milky liquid. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Around us flowed the waters whose limpid depths had so oft received the sack-shrouded form of helpless beauty, when midnight blackness rivalled the horror of the foul murder it veiled forever from mortal ken. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z Hills of pure sapphire, streams of gems, limpid necklaces festooned to drip diamonds from crags into some frothing pool! Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Kepler was of a similar opinion, and further insisted that the sun was composed of a limpid fluid upon which a luminous æther was reflected, whence its centre was blue, while the limbs were yellow. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The most obscure systems became intelligible in that limpid and lucid speech, which reported with faultless dexterity the agile movements of the Gallic mind, and made popular the most abstruse doctrines of metaphysics. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z Up to the eighth or tenth day, inclusive, the marginal elevation contains a limpid fluid termed lymph, and consequently presents a pearl-like lustre. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z The way is enlivened with the prattle and sheen of the limpid Wharfe. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z The style is limpid as a running brook, picturesque, and abounding with touches that show a keen insight into character, and an accurate observation of external things. Pictures of Canadian Life A Record of Actual Experiences 2012-02-14T03:00:28.520Z He turned slightly, fixed his limpid blue eyes upon the speaker, and looked cherubically. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z These, adorned with green birches, shrubs, and copsewood, and shading the limpid stream which makes a curve, and then glides underneath their overhanging cliffs, form "a shady bield," completely protected from observation. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z Lovely is it, at such a time, to lean over the vessel’s side, and watch the limpid waves, as they throw up their sparkling foam. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z A cool stretch of limpid, shining water—there it lay before him, close to him. The Bushranger's Secret 2012-02-09T03:00:14.847Z Skin tumefied and diffuse infiltration with a red serosity, with here and there small full� filled with a limpid liquid. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z The limpid clearness of the night, too, contributed in no small measure to this invigoration of her nature. A Romance of Wastdale 2012-02-01T03:00:11.227Z Around and above him the heavy jasmine exhaled its overpowering sweetness into the limpid moonlight. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Above that stream the waters of the Mississippi are clear and limpid. Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z There were days of fishing and days of bathing and splashing in the limpid waters near sandy beaches. The Corner House Girls on a Houseboat How they sailed away, what happened on the voyage, and what was discovered 2012-01-20T03:00:16.183Z She looked at Miss Mingle with limpid, loving eyes. Dorothy Dale in the City 2012-01-13T03:00:12.213Z All beside thy limpid waters, All beside thy sands so bright, Moorish chiefs and Christian warriors Joined in fierce and mortal fight. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z Then, in a voice whose limpid tenor Kabir had never heard equalled, he sang. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z The waters of the Ohio had seemed muddy to us, but now they appeared clear and limpid compared with the muddy and discoloured stream which we were about to enter. Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z Just view the limpid stream that runs to waste!— The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z I am devoured by thirst, and before me flows a fresh and limpid draught! The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Leander Or Roanoke's and James's limpid waves The sound of musick murmurs in the gale: Another Denham celebrates their flow, In gliding numbers and harmonious lays. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z The tones blended with the rippling harmonies of his lyre in a stream as pure and limpid as the current of the sacred river. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z The waters are pure and limpid, and filled with the finest fish. Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z The water has always been limpid and pure, but its hardness remains the same as it was prior to the flood. ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. 2012-01-02T03:00:24.717Z The beverage of our existence is sometimes limpid, sometimes muddy. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z The sky was purer than all limpid thought; Insect and bird Swept through the golden texture of the air, Unheard; Our kisses were so fair they brought Exaltation to both light and bird. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z Attesting Nature's perfect art Ye fringe the limpid firmament, O little lances, keenly sent To pierce with beauty to the heart! The Star-Treader and other poems 2011-12-27T03:00:09.977Z One is a pure and limpid stream; the other is a stagnant pool, swarming with bacilli. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z It is said to be pure and limpid, free from any disagreeable taste or smell, and capable of being kept for a year without turning rancid. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z As for me, without limpid wine I cannot live; my body is a burden which I cannot carry without drinking of the juice of the vine. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Third—Pale, limpid oils, obtained by distillation and subsequent chemical treatment from the residuum produced in refining petroleum to obtain the fuel oils. Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair 2011-12-04T03:00:04.777Z During this period, a thin limpid fluid distils from the nostrils, leading a careless observer to confound the symptoms with those which accompany Coryza. A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. 2011-12-04T03:00:03.890Z The limpid glance seemed to stimulate his own blue orb to a mild and calm curiosity. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z On almost every page of every illustrated weekly paper, one saw the ingenuous, limpid eyes, the display of eyelash, the lips, their outline emphasized by just that touch of rouge, those copious waves of hair. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z They pretend that there exists a Paradise where there are houris, where the Koocer flows, where there is limpid wine, honey and sugar. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z The same elegant simplicity reigned in this humble abode; the same wild flowers were carefully tended by old Andr�; the same century-old grove shaded the verdant lawn through which the limpid brook wound its way. The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z One charming picture of a boat-load of sheep crossing a Highland loch still dwells in my memory like a limpid sapphire, so lovely was the color of the water. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z The lovely, limpid voice, issuing from the open balconies, rent the saturated atmosphere out of doors, and vibrating with force, went the rounds of the plaza, and died away in the mazes of the town. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z "If you tell me you are in love with him…" "Do you think I should marry him if I was not?" asked Helena, looking the picture of limpid, childlike innocence. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z Let us occupy ourselves only in drinking pure wine, limpid wine, the color of a rose. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z After the heavy storm of the previous night the weather cleared up for the rest of the day, and the sunset, reflected in the limpid waters of the river, was simply magnificent. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z The limpid water, clear and sparkling, issued from the unknown source that was typical of darkness, but the brook of crystal leaped into a world of sunshine, light and freedom. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z She has a soft bronze voice with a limpid quality, whether she is singing at her loudest or floating out a gentle little phrase that tamed the bombast of the big Act II ensemble. Virginia Opera produces a wonderful ?Aida? 2011-10-17T00:19:55Z By piercing the white blisters and systematically wounding branch and trunk, the limpid balsam is made to flow freely, and is collected as a commercial enterprise in some parts of Canada. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z In truth, wine is a limpid spirit in the cup; in the body of the flask, it is a transparent soul. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z "You white people must be very dirty," once said an Ainu to me, as I was taking a plunge into a limpid river, "as you tell me that you bathe in the river every day." Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z The prophecy was flattering to me in my individual capacity, but it has not served to soil the limpid, sunny flow of my philosophy. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z It was limpid, its surface like glass and of the most exquisite turquoise. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z The trees rustled harmoniously, the laurels exhaled their perfumes, the golden oranges contrasted with the dark green leaves, and the fresh sea-breeze sweetly refreshed the limpid air. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z Since the duration of a day is only two stages, make haste to drink wine, the limpid wine; for know well that you near the end of your vanishing existence. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z You breathe air that no one has breathed before, and you quench your thirst in a limpid stream unpolluted by sewage, chemical refuse, or poisonous dye-stuffs. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z Very often, toward the end of the attack, there is a large excretion of pale, limpid urine. Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it 2011-10-03T02:00:31.460Z Terrace above terrace, from the limpid waters of the Araxes, fed eternally by mountain snows, rose the wonderful palaces upon which the revenues of generations had been lavished. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z Pure wines she sips at ease, her thirst to slake— I pump my drink from Erie’s limpid lake! Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z We are assured that there is a Paradise for us peopled with houris, and that we shall find there limpid wine and honey. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z How restfully green was the world; how limpid the water; how royally blue the heavens! Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z But clutter seems evidently to be from the Anglo-Saxon, hluttor, clear, pure, limpid, and the word must have been hluttorbeck, "clear brook," so that this is another case of a similar corruption. Surnames as a Science 2011-09-26T02:00:27.097Z The background was a forest of tall pines and hemlocks, and in front were the limpid waters of the "Smile of the Great Spirit." Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z At any season of the year, however, the limpid spring that has not ceased to flow for centuries will serve to indicate the spot. The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks 2011-09-16T02:00:21.817Z Arise, get off thy bed, O cupbearer! and pour the limpid wine. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z But here under the great southern stars nobody interrupted the limpid flow of his long dammed eloquence. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z Borne along on the steady, changing flow of his large and limpid verse, the author glides into the situation with an ease and grace and fullness of sympathy worthy of a great master. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z According to Mdlle. de Bovet, "Rossini is in Gounod's estimation the most limpid, broad, and lofty of lyric authors"—after Mozart be it said. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z The forests that are at his disposal teem with game; the fields are vast; the rivers limpid. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z O wine, most limpid, pure, and crystalline, Would I could drench this silly frame of mine With thee, that passers by might think 'twas thou, And cry, �Whence comest thou, fair master wine?� The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z I have seen her limpid eyes Large with gradual laughter rise Through wild-roses' nettles, Like twin blossoms grow and stare, Then a hating, envious air Whisked them into petals. The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics 2011-09-11T02:00:09.677Z These may be muddied with rain, but it will be limpid as ever. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z "The sun shines bright, and the moss-brown tarn is more limpid than the running rill." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z The light was strong and limpid, the shadows abrupt and deep. Tiny Luttrell 2011-09-07T02:00:16.757Z Since the world is perishable, I would devise some scheme for it; I would think only of joy, or only of the limpid wine. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z The meadows are flooded with sunshine; a limpid pool on the border of a forest is shown in the foreground, where cows, goats, and sheep are lying or standing under the shade of the trees. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z The other method is to try to fuse the carbon by fierce heat, when from analogy it is argued that on cooling it will solidify to a clear limpid crystal. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z It is self-purifying like the limpid mountain stream its followers love, and no wrong-minded individual nor set of individuals can ever pollute it. Fly Fishing in Wonderland 2011-09-01T02:00:22.230Z The water itself is limpid and clear as crystal, and in the deep pools the silvery salmon leap high into the air after heedless flies who come within reach. Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z Thou hast poured upon earth my limpid wine, my God! The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Yes, I dared to look into those marvelous limpid eyes and I know she saw the hunger in mine, for she took her hand away a little hurriedly. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z I could recall only the faintest shadows of a past into that limpid present. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z And then comes the final step which brings the traveller to where the limpid waters of the Loire mingle with the salty ocean, and what a triumphant meeting it is! Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z Probably the holy man himself would not recognize it; nothing is the same except the salmon, the flies, the limpid, clear water. Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z In truth wine is a spirit thin as air, A limpid soul in the cup's earthen ware; No dull, dense person shall be friend of mine Save wine-cups, which are dense and also rare. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Lovely are the azure lakes that rest against your mountain sides, reflecting in their limpid depths your rocks and trees, your lights and shades, your fleecy clouds and snow-clad peaks! Colorado?The Bright Romance of American History 2011-08-25T02:00:28.183Z The girl's limpid, steadfast eyes fascinated her, and she gazed into their lucent depths longer than she was perhaps aware. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z The court settled itself forthwith at Amboise, where the majestic feudal castle piled itself high up above the broad, limpid Loire, feeling comparatively secure within the protection of its walls. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z The tired night lay still, watching under dusky lids, the moon, a great blown magnolia, floating in the limpid sky. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z There was a small quantity of limpid water between this membrane and the pia mater. Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection 2011-08-23T02:00:29.227Z Thine eyes are limpid pools of light, The windows of thy soul; The stars are not so clear and bright That shine around the pole. Canada, My Land and Other Compositions in Verse 2011-08-23T02:00:28.813Z A writer whose mystical theories are expressed in a clear, limpid style. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z It came from chalk, and it was limpid. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z As borne on the back of some great white bird, we soared northward into a limpid molten sea. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z So limpid is the current in general, that the idea of seeing trout presently when it shall widen out naturally arises. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Ye murmuring streams, whose winding way Through flowery meads and woodlands lay, And every limpid rill, And all ye feathered tribes of air, With voices sweet and plumage fair, Accept my last farewell. Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z At all events Alexis says, in his Parasite— I wish to make you taste this icy water, For I am proud of my well, whose limpid spring Is colder than the Ararus. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z She looked her unutterable joy out of her limpid brown eyes, 281 and he had much ado to keep the tears from his. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z The moorland has disappeared, with its sedgy pools, instead of which there is an abundance of rivulets, growing more limpid and more headlong as you proceed; for you are ascending steadily, your horizon enlarging. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z Drinking deeply of the limpid water near at hand, Murray rose to his feet, and, assisted by the others, he managed to scale the rocky barrier. Midnight Webs 2011-07-29T02:00:30.077Z He sent new milk to the ladies and little wheaten cakes with limpid golden honey, as might beseem fastidious ladies' lips. The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z Ah, that style!—clear as water, delicate, full of grace, limpid, harmonious, exquisite! Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z Oakum took his place in the bows with Dutch, and then, directing the men to row very softly as he directed, they went slowly forward over the limpid waters. Dutch the Diver A Man's Mistake 2011-07-15T02:00:21.010Z Through the green, limpid veil of the sky, stars were glittering; huts of the township were darkening under the gathering shadow of night. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z The sea of glass represents a spiritual character of regal serenity, a character transparent in its limpid depths, and reflecting in its stillness the very image of the Lord. The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z The natural incense of aromatic pine-wood filled the heavy underground atmosphere; thick translucent tears of resin hung yellow and sparkling from the freshly broken boughs, like drops of limpid topaz. The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z Farther on still another little river crossed the road; it laughed aloud, crisp, mirthful, vivid, limpid. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z The limpid brook we had been following, ran from its mouth. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z The light was failing; the sky, from the earth upwards where the sunset had been, the frail, limpid green of a shallow lagoon, deepening to blue, darker than indigo. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z Day succeeds day under the same limpid blue sky fringed at the horizon with a few tufts of woolly cumuli. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Roland gave a great start, and stared in bewildered fashion upon the face confronting him in the full glare of the lamplight, for he was looking into the limpid blue eyes of Lizzie Devine. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z It was limpid, liquid, crystal, clear as a water spring. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z The height of the lower vase is about five feet, which is inferable by our standing by it, and looking over the rim into the limpid basin. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z The sound of picks on the hard ground and the cutting down of scrub broke the limpid stillness. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z I have not seen a clear limpid river that could be forded on horseback. The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns 2011-07-06T02:00:46.297Z The masses of hair crowning her well-carried head are light brown, just falling short of golden, and harmonise wonderfully with the smooth tawny skin, and her eyes are large, limpid and blue. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z The language indeed is at times tortuous, inflated, archaic, after the manner of the modern school; but at other times it loses this mannerism and becomes the clear, limpid, polished French so dear to us. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z On going deeper, the rock again graduated into a compact limestone, very hard, and of a bluish-gray color, in which were frequently found small cavities studded over with minute pyramids of limpid quartz. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z The stars were strewn over and over each other in its limpid black pool. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z Just on the edge of the copse the stream seemed to hang like a bright jewel, as the sunlight glinted from the pure, limpid water. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z She had straight regular features of the classical order, and a pair of large limpid blue eyes, the soulful innocence of whose expression imparted an air of spirituality to the whole face. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z He finds out a place where the stream runs through a deep, limpid basin, and lying flat on the ground, takes a long and refreshing pull at the cool water. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z Fine crystals of limpid quartz are also abundant in the neighborhood. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z Humour, of which he is full, flows freely through all his writings; an easy, limpid, lively, delicate humour, in which I have never detected a lapse of taste or a touch of pedantry. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z The child drooped wearily as she sat with her swollen feet in the cool, limpid water. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z A limpid fountain, the waters of which are distributed through several channels, adds to the charm of the spot. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z “Put away your pistol,” she said, fixing her fine eyes on Malcolm, with a softness in their limpid depths that he had never seen there before. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z In its lofty apartments the sunbeams broke through windows of limpid rock-crystal. Top of the World Stories for Boys and Girls Translated from the Scandinavian Languages 2011-06-21T02:00:28.070Z Sulphuric ether, nitric acid, oil of sassafras, and other limpid fluids, have been employed for thermometers. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z His intent look seemed to pierce the dark and limpid depths as though searching for a sign. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z On the right is the calm and limpid mirror of the river, spreading out into a broad basin, with banks shaded with handsome poplars. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z As he reached the top of the ridge, the sound of the bell came floating and quivering up through the limpid air. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z The crescent moon had just sunk, but the stars shone brightly down through the limpid lens of the African night. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z The sky was clear and limpid, as only the sky which leans over and seems to love the Desert can be. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z Thus it was that the soul of Chrysis, limpid as a little child's, appeared to Demetrios more mysterious than a problem in metaphysics. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z The water at times reached as high as our knees; it was cool and limpid, and the bed of the stream was gravelly. Lost in the Jungle Narrated for Young People 2011-06-07T02:00:11.183Z The style of his earliest writings—the Life of Schiller for example—is simple and almost limpid; the arrangement is orderly, the development obeys the rules of a logic easily comprehended. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z "He has very fine eyes; they are wonderfully limpid and soft." Bijou 2011-05-25T02:00:22.743Z Goddesses washed him with limpid water, gave him for swaddling clothes a white veil of fine tissue, and bound it with a golden girdle.” An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z Others had adopted the fashion of transparent robes, under which one distinguished their beauties mysteriously, just as, through limpid water, one discerns the green mosses lying in splashes of shade upon the bottom. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z A great temptation, when the heat was torrid, To thirsty souls that water's limpid gleam. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 5th 1893 2011-05-21T02:00:09.440Z Could that limpid water tell a maiden's fortune? Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-16T02:00:19.270Z Her wide, limpid eyes were like two blue patches of early June sky. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z Some of those situated principally in the mountains are of pure, limpid, wholesome water, supplied by cool, sweet brooks and rills or by the melting of the winter's snows, and overflow throughout the year. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z His full life brimming purely to the sea reflected heaven as clearly when at last it mingled with the main as when it ran a limpid rivulet from its spring. From the Easy Chair, series 2 2011-04-29T02:00:06.407Z The fisherman will find limpid streams where the wary black bass lurks behind moss-covered rocks.... Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z And there are pools on the floor, and in raised basins at the side—pools of water so limpid as to be treacherous, for in the uncertain light all appears to be solid rock. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z She whose limpid, steadfast, child-eyes could read every line that crossed his soul—every thought that passed his eyes. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z But the humblest brooklet, if it be pure and limpid, mirrors the sky as faithfully as the mightiest river, or the depths of the ocean itself. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z Their limpid life—that was the just description of a mode of conduct so rare in that age, and at that social elevation, as to be relatively unique. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z They are three studies in pictorial poetry, transparent, limpid, of incomparable freshness. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The river is in full flood, its hundreds of affluents, from Plinlimmon downward, having each contributed its quota, till Vaga, usually so pure, limpid, and tranquil, rolls on in vast turbulent volume, muddy and maddened. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z Vera replied only with a look from her great limpid eyes raised to his. Artist and Model (The Divorced Princess) 2011-04-01T02:00:37.710Z It was about four o’clock in the afternoon that we came to the Colorado River, and our horses walked leisurely across its clear, limpid waters. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z The houses are, for the most part, built in the Moorish fashion, with a quadrangular patio, or court, in the centre, where stands a marble fountain, constantly distilling limpid water. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z In a word, Petrarch was the first to open a region where art might be free, and to find for the heart's language utterance direct and limpid. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z And did not thy limpid waters bathe the feet of Fair Rosamond, in childhood's days, when she herself was pure? Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z But turn and turn, the crisp petals remain brief, translucent, greenfastened, barely touching at the edges: blades of limpid seashell. Sour Grapes A Book of Poems 2011-03-25T02:00:10.780Z I have walked under the shadows of thy majestic forests, and bathed my body in thy limpid streams—not with the hope of rejuvenescence, but the certainty of health and joy. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z It is difficult, you see, to please them, the uncertainty of the limpid impediment being little less forbidding than the certainty of the stiff! Riding Recollections, 5th ed. 2011-03-10T03:00:52.223Z The ruby my vow desires For your beauty smiling kind Is surely incarnadined By a limpid mirror's fires. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z On every hill, in every glen, We’ll fight till we are free; We’ll fight till every limpid brook Runs crimson to the sea. Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z All but an irrepressible meadow-lark which, from a fence post nearby, thrust its limpid challenge at us as we came up to the house. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z First he became a long-maned lion grim; A dragon then, a panther, a huge boar, A limpid stream, and an o’ershadowing tree. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z Her eyes grew limpid and her cheeks flushed red as she recalled how the shrine of her treasure had been profaned by the hand of one that might have known, but had disdained its worth. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z Never a movement quivers To trouble the transparent, limpid air: Not a leaf shivers ... Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z They lifted their voices in plaintive entreaty, and the deaf-mute looked at Baynell with limpid eyes and a quivering lip. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z Her beautiful eyes, clear and limpid in their dark depths, blinked saucily. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z One represents beauty, one work, one love, one sadness, one joy, one the escape from the ego, one the winging of ambition, one sheer �stheticism, one liquid, limpid gladness at discovering oneself alive. A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z But a spoonful of some limpid fluid; while the stricken man still listened as if for something that he expected to happen that day. Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes 2011-02-25T03:01:05.303Z "Don't we know," he said, and made the limpid-237- amber vanish in his pause. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Each time the bucket ascends it gives out a stream of limpid water. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z But how comes it that death is so frequent among these limpid streams, in a region where the air is so invigorating and so pure? War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z Cyril, looking into her limpid eyes, felt his sudden suspicions unworthy of him. Who? 2011-02-09T03:00:47.380Z The river is in full flood, its hundreds of affluents from Plinlimmon downward, having each contributed its quota, till Vaga, usually so pure, limpid, and tranquil, rolls on in vast turbulent volume, muddy and maddened. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z It was like the limpid carolling of a nightingale in a hedge at home; it bred a hunger of England in Lord Victor's boy heart. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z Downward, downward, little maiden, Is a voice that bids me speed, Where a little brook is waiting, Which my limpid drops must feed. The Boys' And Girls' Library 2011-02-06T03:01:02.953Z Once my people, lodge and band, Stretched their numbers through the land; Roving brooks and limpid streams, By the moon's benignant beams. Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 of 2 Indian Tales and Legends 2011-02-06T03:01:02.343Z His life was like a stream, which, issuing limpid from its native rock, moves on undefiled over various lands; and, clear and limpid still, unites itself with the ocean. The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z Every morning on awakening I was in the habit of resting my elbows on the window-sill and gazing far out over the limpid and sparkling mirror of the Tyrrhenian Sea.... Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z Who gave him his prose style as limpid and flowing as a country brook? Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z To me it seemed as limpid as something distilled. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z Liquids like molasses and honey possess more cohesive force among the molecules of which they are composed than limpid liquids like water and alcohol. Friction, Lubrication and the Lubricants in Horology 2011-01-20T03:00:07.073Z And radiant with joy and pink with agitation, she raised to heaven her limpid eyes, that a moment before were veiled in sadness, but now shone sweetly, like a cornflower glistening in the morning dew. The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z Your eyes are pure and limpid as hers. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z Fortunately, in the case immediately before us, it is a Chinese author who tells us that we are to seek for limpid streams rather than for literal lutes or lyres. Ancient Chinese account of the Grand Canyon, or course of the Colorado 2011-01-12T03:00:34.043Z Besides, so long as the spring within us be limpid, it matters but little whether error there be or not. The Inner Beauty 2011-01-12T03:00:31.580Z Not the slightest cloud came either to dim or enhance the limpid blue sky, and though the mornings were now rather fresh, the days were, as yet, delightfully warm and radiant with sunshine. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z “It’s so limpid, so clear, I don’t see why people aren’t seeing it,” said a diplomat here in Abidjan. Ivory Coast Leader Softens Position in Crisis 2011-01-05T06:41:07Z It’s so limpid, so clear, I don’t see why people aren’t seeing it. Ivory Coast Leader Softens Position in Crisis 2011-01-04T19:17:10Z The island and mountain peaks, whose outlines are seen from the Gulf, had been somewhat dimmed by a light haze, appeared surprisingly near and distinct in the limpid medium through which they were now viewed. Ancient Chinese account of the Grand Canyon, or course of the Colorado 2011-01-12T03:00:34.043Z Apparently, the presence of a stranger astonished her, for she had stopped abruptly with her watering-pot in her hand darting glances at him with her large bright eyes, which were of a limpid greenish-blue colour. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z Into this fervid, pastoral verdure the round white table, sparkling with silver, limpid with wine-lights, seemed to roll forth resplendent and incongruous as a huge, tinseled snowball. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z Continuing its course, it passed under a rustic bridge, a limpid stream, in which the speckled trout sported, fearless of the angler's line, beneath the shadow of lofty elms or gracefully bending willows. Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles 2011-01-01T03:00:27.980Z Its waters are uncommonly pure and limpid, and their banks swarded with the finest verdure. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z The island and mountain peaks, whose outlines, as seen from the gulf, had been somewhat dimmed by a light haze, appeared surprisingly near and distinct in the limpid medium through which they were now viewed. Ancient Chinese account of the Grand Canyon, or course of the Colorado 2011-01-12T03:00:34.043Z From the distance came the monotonous tinkle of the native orchestra, mournfully, limpid as water, like a xylophone, with a deep dissonance at intervals.... The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z It was early evening, the sky clear above the sharp outlines of the building, a few stars quivering in the limpid twilight. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z I kept stealing shy glances at him through the limpid darkness. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z Here the deceitful mirage no longer tantalised them with prospects of verdant groves and smooth limpid lakes. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z The water looks cool and limpid, but hard by is the gin—a trap within an open door. Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches 2010-12-20T17:11:48.837Z And, at the same time, the expression of those great eyes, bright and limpid though they were, struck me as the most unfathomable thing in the world. The Three Eyes 2010-12-20T17:11:46.430Z Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Guardian Some days the Mill has a wonderful witty introduction, one that gently lowers you into a limpid pool of tittle-tattle with a friendly smile and a cheeky wink. Football transfer rumours: Shay Given to Fulham? 2010-08-17T08:33:00Z Every morning, the sidewalks were littered with shattered car windows, tiny bits of glass glinting like diamonds in the limpid sun. Daniel Alarcón: “Second Lives.” 2010-08-09T04:00:00Z She was also that rare thing, an economist with a limpid writing style. In praise of ? Joan Robinson 2010-07-08T23:05:00Z The kelly green golf course, the limpid lap pool, the khaki slacks and crisp sundresses all seemed to murmur Establishment, but unhappiness is so widespread this year that revolutions are stirring in the strangest places. The Pitchfork Primaries: Will Washington Get the Message? 2010-05-20T08:55:00Z The ordinary supply of cities is from some pure stream or pond conveyed from a distance through pipes, the limpid fluid containing generally only a small amount of impurity. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers The asseverations employed by the Shallows and Slanders are as limpid and as timorous as those of Falstaff and Bardolph are downright and headstrong. A Cursory History of Swearing Aq�ueous humour, the limpid watery fluid which fills the space between the cornea and the crystalline lens in the eye. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Adula′ria, a very pure, limpid, translucent variety of the common felspar, called by lapidaries moonstone, on account of the play of light exhibited by the arrangement of its crystalline structure. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide There is in his writing a limpid truthfulness and simplicity, unconsciously decorated with pretty 18th century words and half-rusticities which give it a perennial charm. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History None can tell the overwhelming sorrow, the keen agony which succeeded your absence; my only solace was to seek the streamlet and mingle my boyish tears with its limpid waters. Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851 The traveller who visits the canton of Unterwalden to-day finds its mountains sublime, its valleys beautiful, its waters limpid and living, as of old. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 On the street ... a narrow, formidable street, full of a palpable, limpid night. Woman Now snow water is occasionally the most limpid, melted-crystal thing in the world. The Voice of the Pack They fluttered their white wings awhile Then soared again to paradise, Leaving a trail of limpid notes For sacrifice. Provocations It was a limpid day at the shutting-in of St. Martin's summer, and to Michael it seemed like the ghost of one of those June Saturdays of eight years ago. Sinister Street, vol. 2 He and Hands took off their shoes and stockings and ran through the limpid water that sparkled with gold and tempted them to wade for ever ankle deep. Sinister Street, vol. 1 And in those limpid souls I'd see A very fierce regard for me. Impertinent Poems Just now, they were shaded into dark pools of blue, but he knew they could brighten into limpid violet. The Key to Yesterday The space contains a limpid cerebro-spinal fluid, which varies in quantity from 2 drachms to 2 oz., and is most plentiful in the dilatations at the base of the brain known as cisternae. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" Water is a heavy, limpid fluid, hard to confine and easy to let loose. The Future of Road-making in America Tortoise-shell was a favourite, and owing to its limpid lustre it was exceedingly effective. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" How fond he had grown of that sparkling brunette face, those limpid eyes of "liquid light," he never knew until he lost her. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir His limpid heart understood the disgrace of his position. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories Low, hollow winds murmured among the bushes, or brushed the limpid drops from the intermingling foliage. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact In a clump of olive trees and beside a limpid spring, they came upon a hut occupied by motherless children, alone and unprotected, the hireling having left the day before. The Mother of St. Nicholas A Story of Duty and Peril These last shone, in spite of the glowing darkness, with a limpid and translucent turquoise like that of the distant landscape in a Siennese picture. The Firebrand What lay under that sparkling surface that had seemed as clear as limpid water? Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir Mechtild's neither glowed nor flashed; but from their limpid depths beamed goodness so genuine and serenity so unclouded, that Seraphin could compare them to nothing but two heralds of peace and innocence. The Progressionists, and Angela. Low, hollow winds murmured among the bushes, or brushed the limpid drops from the intermingling foliage. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact At times, a verdant forest loomed up along the heated horizon, fringed by limpid lakes, and our wearied columns moved on gaily, cheated, again and again, by the hope of shade and water. History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1 From, the unlighted cities on the seven hills came an unbroken howling of dogs; transparent waves of the limpid Bosphorus slapped the vessel’s sides, making a mellow and ceaseless clatter. The Moonlit Way A limpid rivulet tumbled over a rocky channel, girt with a profusion of brush and briar, amongst which were scattered a thousand wild-flowers, that, renovated by the dew, threw forth a delicious perfume. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency This circumstance occasioned the clearing out of the bog, when the source of a hot spring very limpid and very abundant was discovered. Memoranda on Tours and Touraine Including remarks on the climate with a sketch of the Botany And Geology of the Province also on the Wines and Mineral Waters of France Several glittering ponds, alive with all varieties of aquatic birds, reflected upon their limpid surface the broad-leaved crowns of the fan-palms, towering above verdant groves of laurel, amyris, and elm-like robles. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 It is one which asks nothing from us except to refrain from polluting what comes from heaven so limpid. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus He took his place in it with Isabel and rowed with a care-free mind; nor did Dolores' image ever rise from this limpid water, in which she had bathed on a certain voluptuous evening. The Tremendous Event They are far more difficult than the limpid operatic arias, and are actually dangerous for the insufficiently trained voice. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists At their feet flowed a stream of limpid water, behind them rose a hill that they had just traveled over, following the track of an old Roman road that had fallen into decay. The Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess A dam has been driven across a perfectly limpid mountain stream; a wide open area has been cleared, levelled, strengthened with masonry, and divided into deep basins or reservoirs, through which the current continually flows. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 Again, they could throw out garnet sparkles and become limpid as wine. Shadows of Flames A Novel The water was so beautifully limpid that his every action could be accurately observed. Harper's Round Table, October 29, 1895 The music of the older Italian composers, from Scarlatti or Carissimi to Donizetti and Bellini, despite the absurd libretti of their operas, demanded first of all dulcet tones and limpid fluency. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists The justice of the Lord being accomplished, the waters again became calm and limpid, and peacefully returned to their bed. The Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess Two limpid mountain streams meandered across it, their banks skirted by graceful shrubbery and noble trees. Narrative of the March of Co. A, Engineers from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to Fort Bridger, Utah, and Return May 6 to October 3, 1858 Vases of frosted rose, Of limpid alabaster, Filled with the mountain snows; Goblets of mother-of-pearl, One filigree silver-swirl; Vessels of gold foamed up With spray of spar on the cup. One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue The summer resort in question is only one of the numberless lakelets that dot the hill country of Wisconsin; a mere dimple in the sunny landscape, filled with limpid water. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road His thought flows limpid, serene, sure of itself above an undercurrent of sane and vigorous if pagan philosophy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" On either side of the avenue, the walled ditches are filled with limpid water, where swans and other beautiful aquatic birds disport themselves. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades The waters of Big Sandy Creek, which we reached the next day, after a march of twenty-one and a half miles, were very limpid, an unusual thing in this country. Narrative of the March of Co. A, Engineers from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to Fort Bridger, Utah, and Return May 6 to October 3, 1858 The beauteous daughters of the Trojan chiefs repaired to the hot and cold springs of the Scamander, near the Scæan Gate, but they went there to wash their clothes in its limpid fountains. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 Almost instantly a little white object darted out over the balcony rail and came fluttering down through the limpid darkness. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois The limpid blue sky and the rays of the magnificent eastern sun makes it an attractive place to linger, particularly so at 4:00 p. m., when a military band performs its European repertoire. My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 At this moment Granfa Champion himself appeared, his countenance flushed with conquest, his eyes shining in a limpid blue, his snow-white hair like spindrift round his face. Carnival The style flows on like a limpid river; there is nothing superfluous, and not a hesitating touch. An Outline of Russian Literature In O. F. small quantity dissolves to limpid glass. The Elements of Blowpipe Analysis At sight of the bottle, at the tinkle of its limpid content, so cool and silvery green inside the glass, Fenayrou's nerve snapped.... Where the Pavement Ends He was even prouder of his daughter, whose lovely shape and limpid eyes so charmed him, than of all his tall sons. My Dark Companions And Their Strange Stories Wagner was more intoxicating, but bequeathed no limpid exultation to the heart of the wearied listener. Carnival Instead of the muddy water of the Amazon, resembling pea-soup, that of the Negro is intensely dark, but clear and limpid, every ripple sparkling like crystal. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series In O. F. yellow while hot, limpid glass when cold. The Elements of Blowpipe Analysis Now and then our crew of clean-limbed Tonga boys rested on their oars, with timid, limpid gaze turned askance. Where the Pavement Ends The eyes must be clear, pure, limpid like sunshine, preeminently blue or of that indefinite changing color which we note in some species of birds. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) We proceeded towards it, our road constantly crossed by fresh and limpid streams, which, issuing from the sides of the mountain, reunite at its foot and form a rivulet which encircles the inn. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] A dam has been driven across a perfectly limpid mountain stream; a wide open area has been cleared, levelled, strengthened with masonry, and divided into deep basins and reservoirs, through which the current continually flows. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses The water was so pure and limpid that every pebble could be counted, and in the cool, bright current they saw, to their delight, a perfect labyrinth of lace-work. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks Under his feet flowers and fruit sprang to life, and striking the rocks with his wand he made limpid streams gush forth. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels All the hardness had gone out of her face, and the sea-blue eyes were limpid and tender and winning. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion Life is not a river running in one bed, but a series of streams that follow fifty channels—some pure and limpid, some, perchance, turbid and foul enough. Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier She had large limpid brown eyes, and was of small build. Dorothy's Tour The broadest and most limpid thinking is but the morning freshness to a day full of God's necessities, who works at our morals, our politics, our society, our science, and our art. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 They accuse me of being too fluid, too limpid, of not imparting enough colour to my style, not aiming at stronger effects in harmony and more vigorous contrasts. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels A strange mirage, watery, crystallised, hangs over the brown expanse of veldt, going off into limpid blue on the far horizon, where the distant flat-topped hills seem to be suspended in mid-air. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion The limpid air enfolds in soft embrace The pond'rous orb, and brightens o'er her face. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Exhausted, at length, by fatigue and vexation, she sat down in the cavity of a rock, through the clefts of which a limpid water gently oozed. The New-York Weekly Magazine or Miscellaneous Repository. Alphonso and Marina In the darkness her uplifted white face shone like the moon; there were two limpid luminous pools in it. The Brain In these gardens were also numerous baths, wells, basins, and ponds full of limpid water, which regularly ebbed and flowed. The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. She did not venture to speak, but a glance showed me a gleam of malicious relief in the eyes I had once thought limpid as a brook. The Brightener It is thus, when the overloaded vapour bursts, that it descends— Sweet as the waters of the limpid rill. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Who would seek for pearls without when such treasures are to be found within the shell—cool and juicy and succulent; suggestive of delights to come, and so suited to the limpid glass of Chablis. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands Not that Grog cared for these: rocks, waterfalls, ruins, leafy groves, or limpid streams made no appeal to him, He lived for the life of men, their passions and their ambitions. Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day It is in the most beautiful azure depths of the limpid water that this hideous, voracious polyp delights. Toilers of the Sea Her soul was simple and pure, and her sweet sentiments are reflected in a style as limpid as a running stream. Greek Women In a wave-scooped depression between two of the larger boulders, the receding waters had left a little, limpid pool. The Destroying Angel The only bit of tactics that Jo had in his mind at present was how to get the big trout who lurked in the shadow of the limpid pool. The Frontier Boys in the Sierras Or, The Lost Mine There was a beautiful tank of clear limpid water, supplied by a fountain in the hill above, and here the faithful performed their ablutions before worship. Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches Green microscopic beauties took their place in the vast universal plan in which all seemed distinguishable as in limpid water. Toilers of the Sea There on a bluff—thirty, forty—ay! seventy feet high—a score of native maidens are following each other in quick succession into the limpid pools beneath. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia A spring, pouring forth a constant stream of limpid, cool water, was readily located, and here each found satisfying refreshment. Frontier Boys in the South Seas For example, the second and the fourth movements of the "Pastoral Symphony," and Haydn's own illustration of the passage, "softly purling glides through silent glades the limpid brook," in Raphael's song, "Rolling in foaming billows." The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. However clear and limpid the stream may look, I never forget that its source was in foulness! The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life Down the center, in a deep channel, flows a limpid stream, refreshing and fertilizing the whole scene. Josephine Makers of History The old town of Mazatlan, or Presidio, is situated on a broad plain, with a rapid, shallow, limpid stream, coursing beside it. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia The limpid stream served her as a mirror when she awoke, and there she saw herself reflected in the most charming morning-dress. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors "Fair art thou, B�tis," says Martial, "with thine olive crown and thy limpid waters, with the fleece stains of a brilliant gold." Cathedrals of Spain Its primitive use had been practical, for in Andalusia it stood at the entrance to some mezquita, and in its limpid waters the disciples of Mahomet performed their hygienic and religious ablutions. The Cathedrals of Northern Spain There is also a fine chime of bells, which will remind one of the churches of the Low Countries when he hears its limpid notes ring out upon the still air. The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine I remember following the bank of a stream so dainty and limpid that I could not tear myself away from it. The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun As if had come a sullying breath And from the limpid mirror passed, Her presence past, like some near death Leaving my blood aghast. Blooms of the Berry This semifluid lining is protoplasm, which thus constitutes a kind of bag, full of a limpid liquid, and roughly corresponding in form with the interior of the hair which it fills. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse The popular belief in Galicia is that in this crypt the cathedral reflects itself, towers and all, as it would in the limpid surface of a lake. The Cathedrals of Northern Spain Wonderful hazel eyes they were, changing with every mood, now dark and sombre as a starless night, now light and limpid as a Highland burn, laughing in the sunshine. The Red Symbol The Neva, clear and limpid, cuts through the town, laden with vessels and barks unceasingly moving up and down, and this greatly adds to the liveliness of the town. The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun Nor was there need for her to make Or costly vows, or incense burn; Or sea-shore gods her guides to take On her last voyage, last return, From sea-ward to this limpid lake. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 He was thirty but looked little over twenty, and his large limpid blue eyes were as guileless as a child's. Ancestors A Novel In his oil paintings the execution is delicate and smooth, the outlines hard, the texture pure, and the whole work elaborately and very highly finished in rich, limpid colour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" I held one dearer than each day Of life God sets in limpid gold— What thief hath stole that gem away To leave me poor and old! Days and Dreams Poems I enjoyed the contemplation of its limpid water, which vividly reflected the trees on its banks. The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun This having been done, we have moonshine whiskey, uncolored, limpid as water, and ready for immediate consumption. Our Southern Highlanders He had large limpid eyes and a smile of ineffable sweetness. Once a Greech “The story runs on like a limpid brook—now in the sun, now in the shadow, but always clear.” Lee's Last Campaign She was now kneeling down on the edge of a fountain, and intently gazing on her own countenance, which was reflected from the limpid water as from a mirror. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 "No," said Nan, bending on him a limpid gaze. Old Crow Overjoyed at this observation, he threw the limpid stream in the face of the mistress, whose recovery was assisted by the appearance of her husband and Betty. Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed Thus art thou like a limpid channel linking two rivers, A channel wherein the skies are mirrored betwixt two rows of pale poplars. The Forerunners But twelve children cannot be brought up on limpid air, and there were often difficulties when new boots were wanted; sometimes, indeed, there were difficulties when bread and meat and puddings were wanted. Orientations Their number is legion, yet how infinite must be the fine floating life, so fine that we cannot note that it clouds the limpid water, on which these sessile gray creatures feed. Old Plymouth Trails A coolness as of limpid water moved through my mind, cleansing it, washing away the horror, soothing and comforting me. Where the World is Quiet Others labored over historical combinations and the deeds of Bathrobespierre were sung in limpid strains, and the plaintive history of Old Black Joan of Archæology set every one off into a gale of mirth. The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted The limpid moonlight, in a glow of beauty, kissed the hills and valleys. The So-called Human Race She had fine regular features, and with her limpid blue eyes was unquestionably pretty when the flush of youth and vivacity had full play. The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories Miss Mamie proved to be a well-enough-looking mouse, with a large limpid eye, very good manners, and a flow of the most correct expressions I have ever heard upon the human lip. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) Invisible, yet nonetheless there, brooding for an assault beneath a limpid surface? The Land of Look Behind |
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