| 单词 | opalescence |
| 例句 | In dusky colors often shot through with opalescence, they picture ordinary objects on flat surfaces — a shoe, a bowl, a paper bag — as if they were sacred relics. Art in Review: Victor Pesce: ‘Selections: 1978-2010’ 2013-07-04T23:36:18Z Color tends to a muted opalescence, but in “Moving,” in which she appears three times at about life size, dancing across a five-foot-wide canvas, an intense yellow glow suffuses and heats the image. Art in Review: Joan Semmel 2011-05-06T06:15:06Z Across the violet surface of the Mediterranean and the crystal opalescence of the evening sky the music fell voluptuously. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z This term, derived from fluor-spar after the analogy of opalescence from opal, does not presuppose any theory. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z His 1910 paper on "critical opalescence" helped confirm, among other things, what? Science exam 2011-03-09T05:00:45Z His 1910 paper on "critical opalescence" explained, among other things, what? 7 questions 2011-03-09T05:00:45Z Here was a land whose common substance had this gemlike opalescence. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z But still more exquisitely beautiful than any of these is the fine opalescence that irradiates some butterflies in the changing beam. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series Toward the last the flames which came from it lost their yellow opaqueness and slipped fluttering upward in a transparent opalescence which I never before saw in fire. Old Plymouth Trails Either the small shining globe was practically indestructible, or else it had been spared by some odd freak of the explosive, for it still blazed in baleful opalescence atop the shattered head. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 Far overhead there was one fleeting glimpse of a pinpoint of dull opalescence reflecting the rays of the dying sun. The Planetoid of Peril Becalmed, the island lay steeped in floods of ethereal silver, its sky an iridescent dome, its sea a shimmering shield of opalescence, its lawns and terraces argentine shadowed with deepest violet. Nobody In a certain aspect, there plays over this spot a violet opalescence of exceeding richness. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series Weird luminous opalescence streamed from them—it bathed him—strange electrolite radiance that permeated every minute fibre of his being. The World Beyond The sweeping lances of light vanished in a brief sheet of vivid flame which kindled the dark globes on the hybrids' gruesome heads to steady opalescence—and the dread horde came to life! Astounding Stories, May, 1931 Near the center of each of the giant crystals there was visible through the semi-transparent wall a large inner nucleus of sullen opalescence that ceaselessly swirled and eddied. Devil Crystals of Arret The mink’s small eyes were lit with a smouldering, ruddy glow, sinister and implacable; while rage and pain had cast over the eyes of the fox a peculiar green opalescence. Kings in Exile In that white light coming through the translucent glass panes, David's grayish eyes took on an opalescence. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Note.—Just before the end-point is reached, a very slight opalescence may be noted in the fluid, due to the precipitation of dibasic phosphates. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. The dormant bodies of the great slugs glowed perceptibly brighter as they fed, and the pulsations of opalescence quickened. The Cavern of the Shining Ones Orme pushed a chair to the window of the sitting-room and smoked lazily, looking out over the beautiful expanse of Lake Michigan, which reflected from its glassy surface the wonderful opalescence of early evening. The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure But it did not seem long now before the silvery radiance of the moon began to grow pale before the soft opalescence in the east, and the far-spreading desert sands took a less mystic tint. In the Mahdi's Grasp Caldwell wasn't more than twenty-two or three, but the screen's opalescence silvered his hair and misted the outlines of his jaw, giving him an aspect of senility. The Sky Trap The sky was changing from a cold grey to the opalescence of dawn. There was a King in Egypt Great shining slugs slumbered there by the hundreds in their boxlike crystal cells, their gelatinous bodies glowing with pale and ever-changing opalescence. The Cavern of the Shining Ones This "play of colour" and "opalescence," must not be confused with "change of colour." The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones Like the physical body it radiates an aura, and this combining with the other forms of the auric body, gives to it its peculiar pearly appearance, which is the background of its opalescence previously noted. The Human Aura Astral Colors and Thought Forms The filtrate from these precipitates containing only fractional residues of acetone still shows opalescence. Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 He found himself among rugged, heathy ground, the hollow palm of the island, now suffused with milky opalescence, for the sun was setting. Patsy From within the skull there rolled a great shining slug, a sinisterly beautiful figure of glowing opalescence, with a scarlet nucleus! The Cavern of the Shining Ones In an instant the opalescence of the transformation showed on it, but its dozen ray projectors were at work. Invaders from the Infinite A larger proportion of hydrochloric acid than is ordered above would remove the opalescence, but at the same time increase this tendency to atmospheric oxidation, as the following experiments show. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Its gradations of colour, its translucent opalescence framed in gleaming greens and tender greys, wreathed with the radiance of the foam, are of inimitable charm. Nature Mysticism Any of the perfumed vinegars that are required to produce opalescence, when mixed with water, must contain some gum-resin, like the hygienic vinegar, as above. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants I was as surprised as though one of his dim bottles in the shadows had suddenly glowed before my eyes, become magical with moving opalescence. London River The relux glowed, and the opalescence shifted with bewildering, confusing colors. Invaders from the Infinite But this balance is disturbed in the presence of much nitre, the indications with baric chloride being disturbed by an opalescence for some c.c. beyond the finishing point. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. They passed down through the scintillant, magical sheen, their moccasins rhythmically crunching the snow and their breaths wreathing mysteriously from their lips in sprayed opalescence. A Daughter of the Snows The smiling bearers shouldered the trophy and the meat, and we stumbled home through the half shadows and the opalescences of the moonlight. African Camp Fires Capable of depicting the rainbow, he died of the opalescence that clouded his glass of absinthe. Promenades of an Impressionist A diffused glow of opalescence ran over every ship—save the giant. Invaders from the Infinite Imagine between these paths of greenish opalescence the squares of buildings of domed, arched and castellated roofs, pierced and starred, and spread in lines and patterns of white electric lamps. The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars The languid curve of the smile and the opalescence of the green eyes betrayed none of their secrets to Asako's inexperience. Kimono Its shape was a smooth oval; its hue, even in that dim, wind-tossed light, showed a wondrous, tender opalescence that seemed to change and blend into rainbow iridescences as the staring Legionaries peered at it. The Flying Legion The translucent varieties were found to transmit a yellowish and to reflect a bluish white light—or, in other words, to exhibit the phenomenon of opalescence. Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 The ray struck the Thessian fort, and the fort burst into tremendous opalescence, while the invisible barrier the ray had struck was suddenly a great sheet of flaming light. Invaders from the Infinite The Golden Girl pressed upon its side; it slipped softly back; a torrent of opalescence gushed out of the opening—and as one in a dream I entered. The Moon Pool And in the midst of it all the girl shone like the one evening star in the mystic opalescence of twilight. The Grain of Dust The west was one gigantic stained window, the ocean floor a solid shimmer of opalescence. Moran of the Lady Letty The ultra-microscopical vesicles filled with air in all probability give rise to the opalescence which is so marked a property of the substance. Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 In less than half a second the opalescence was gone, the fort shuddered, and shrieked out of the planet's atmosphere, a mass of lux now, and susceptible to the moleculars. Invaders from the Infinite It slipped aside and once more the opalescence gushed out, flooding all about us. The Moon Pool For a little, strain and source were alike indefinite—an impalpable setting to harmony of the mellowed light, the perfumed opalescence of the air, the luxury and charm of the room. The Damnation of Theron Ware Westward, the wiry boughs of the bare thorn hedge which formed the boundary of the field rose against the pale opalescence of the lower sky. Tess of the d'Urbervilles When the vesicles of the substance are filled with Canada balsam, and a thin slice is cut from it, this opalescence comes out in the most striking manner. Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 They reached out, touched the heavy relux of the fort, and it exploded into opalescence that was hazily white, the colors shifted so quickly. Invaders from the Infinite But as the light sped and struck the opalescence it was blotted out! The Moon Pool Occasionally one or two drops of this solution may be introduced into the eye for the purpose of removing opalescence of the cornea. The Dog Since that evening I have endeavored, by a series of experiments, to find out some means by which this opalescence might be got rid of in the most convenient manner. Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 I do not know of any substance which in such thin films displays such striking opalescence. Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 In an instant one of the forts was a mass of opalescence that shifted so swiftly it was purest white, then rocketed away, lifeless, and no longer relux. Invaders from the Infinite When the great slab rolled away, no torrents of opalescence came rushing out upon us. The Moon Pool Even the ocean lessens the light of its green opalescence, Since, to my sorrow I loved, loved and grew weary of, you. India's Love Lyrics It would be hard to imagine a less imaginative name than "white" fish for such a shining, burning opalescence. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake There was, as it were, a latent opalescence. Over Prairie Trails As before, he noted the maze of splendid, dazzling opalescence, all the colours of the spectrum blending, weaving, vibrant, like a vast plain of smooth, Gargantuan jewels. The Blind Spot It gathered Throckmartin to it, clothed him in a robe of living opalescence. The Moon Pool Behind the soft, milky opalescence of the wall glimmers the egg-tabernacle, with its form vaguely suggesting the star of some order of knighthood. The Life of the Spider Miles away, gigantic luminous cliffs sprang sheer from the limits of a lake whose waters were of milky opalescence. The Moon Pool Below was the unmistakable opalescence, somehow produced by powerful illumination, as intense as sunlight itself. The Blind Spot |
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