| 单词 | opalescent |
| 例句 | I noticed she was very white, the skin of her shoulder almost blue, opalescent, unbelievably pale considering where she lived. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She adds a cardboard flat of opalescent buttons for my unfinished dress. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z She walked to a painted horse head and stroked its opalescent mane. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Werner thinks of Jutta with her opalescent hair and quick eyes and blunt manners: she would never be mistaken for the weakest. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The logs are dark brown and shiny, and they reflected opalescent colors in the beam of my head lamp. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The nixies begin to surface, looking at us with hungry, opalescent eyes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The light seemed to boil opalescently, like liquid soap shaken gently in a bottle. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Moonlight floods the bedroom, shimmers the walls, opalescent. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I have this dish — it might be an incense holder — that’s an abalone shell whose interior is this beautiful opalescent pink. Sarah Paulson Has a Thing for Vulgar Performances and Good Cries 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Fuzzy opalescent headlights dotted one of the most congested rural roads in the world. Scene City: The Parrish Art Museum’s Summer Benefit 2013-07-15T19:59:50Z Established in 1998, the firm became a sensation thanks to a string of hit projects in Spain—from a surreal Mérida skate park to a Cartagena convention center clad in opalescent extruded plastic. AD Innovators: SelgasCano 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z The paintings are nearly colorless, but pinkish-beige tones layered over cooler hues create an opalescent glow. Art in Review: Matthew Miller: ?the magic black of an open barn door on a really sunny summer day, when you just cannot see into it? 2011-05-06T06:15:06Z The bird is the size of a robin and the shade of an eggplant, if eggplants were opalescent. At Canyon Ranch, learning to stroll instead of run 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Silver leaf echoes the shimmering, opalescent surfaces favored by California designer Frances Elkins. 2009-12-21T05:00:00Z Scott Lyall’s opalescent, Minimalist canvases, digitally covered by thousands of tiny bits of color, invite thought about painting in an age of mechanical reproduction. Art Review: ‘Anti-Establishment’ and Liam Gillack’s Work at Bard 2012-07-05T19:44:25Z Below us, the Upper Engadin is traversed by the opalescent Inn River, fed by the waterfalls and glaciers of the eastern Alps. Finding real summer deals in the deluxe Swiss ski resort of St. Moritz 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z “It was not one dominant attribute but the anarchic coexistence, in one petite, sweetly brazen figure, of a seeming mass of bewitching, opalescent contradictions,” Riley writes. ‘The Astaires,’ by Kathleen Riley 2012-06-01T22:36:06Z Watching the waning afternoon light through a woodland demonstrates that this is at best a dance between the opalescent sky and the black-branched tree. Perspective | Finding the flower bed in the firmament 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z But they can still discuss smallpox, which is described in much more sumptuous detail than even the sex scenes, from the pox to the disfigurement to the “opalescent slime.” Books of The Times: In ‘Frog Music,’ Emma Donoghue Delves Into Unsolved Crime 2014-04-07T20:53:50Z This pocket-size hardcover bound in opalescent cloth, featuring a watercolor-like illustration of the young Joan Didion looking out at the reader, may be the loveliest edition of this book ever printed. Cocktails, crafts, rap, Bob Ross, yoga and cats: Great stocking stuffer books 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Her intricate renderings of abandoned interior spaces; massive opalescent soap bubbles resembling alien planets; and even the occasional pegasus have been exhibited at the Vito Schnabel Gallery in New York and Soft Opening in London. Her Hyper-Realistic Art Is a Parallel Universe 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z A tableau of opalescent angels, originally installed at a church in Waterville, N.Y., was restored this summer after years in storage at the Corning Museum of Glass. Antiques: ‘Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion’ at Biblical Art 2012-10-12T05:20:06Z Mr. Pinart, 88, explained his choices of painted shadows, yellow highlights and opalescent swoops. A Stained-Glass Artist Enjoys a Renaissance 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z He was told to colour and decorate it, but insisted on glazing it in opalescent white: "I sort of rather stuck there I'm afraid." Edmund de Waal 2011-02-12T11:38:27Z The 1904 fixture, a slab of perforated copper and brass studded with opalescent glass blocks and light bulbs, originally hung over a dining table at an industrialist’s villa in western Germany. Antiques: Historical Hair Locks Selling at Auctions 2012-12-13T22:46:41Z Rendered in graceful cartoon outlines made of lead and filled in by jewel-bright pieces of opalescent glass, they promise peace to troubled souls without any obvious Christian symbolism. Art Review: Louis C. Tiffany Works at Museum of Biblical Art 2012-12-31T23:14:26Z He also settled on a relatively neutral color palette, an opalescent mixture of silver and gold, that would pick up light well. Golden Globes 2015: Months of planning for one dream dinner party 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z Crystal Holographic, this year’s iteration of Lancôme’s annual holiday highlighter, is quietly opalescent. Time to Break Out the Lipstick 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z On skates one is in a gorgeous opalescent bubble, floating along, or stunting, or racing in a world void of unfair tennis umpires, sexist politicians and assaulting network C.E.O.s. The Wheel Thing 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z The sense was reinforced by a set of soloists including the opalescently toned soprano Elizabeth Watts and lyrical bass Stephan Loges, whose strengths lie in the early music field. Northern Sinfonia/Zehetmair ? review 2012-05-21T17:00:01Z Madonna's corset by Jean-Paul Gaultier is of green silk with conical cups and beaded fringe, embroidered with candy stripes of opalescent sequins and peppermint bugle beads. London sale features Elvis Presley's Rolex 2012-11-23T11:35:08Z In an oil painting, a sleeping nude with different-colored limbs reclines on a bed against an opalescent landscape. Review | This is not the Magritte we know 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Salt Up and down the Marsala region are antique windmills standing beside checkerboards of salt beds, chunky opalescent crystals harvested into small hills and dried in the sun beneath terra-cotta tiles. T Magazine: Tasting Notes 2012-05-15T15:00:48Z Yet the gap here isn’t just between the drab lives and the opalescent music. Review: In ‘Girl From the North Country,’ Rolling Stones Gather Regrets 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z At a distance of 10 feet, it begins to show evidence of vague opalescent staining. Robert Irwin’s Art Takes New Forms Right Before Your Eyes at the Hirshhorn 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z From the 1910s through the 1940s, he spoke mysteriously of his “friends” who could acquire artifacts in the countryside, while he angled spotlights on stone Buddha heads and opalescent jade bowls for sale. Antiques: Notes From the Dealer C. T. Loo, and Pens of a Certain Age 2012-09-06T21:10:10Z She also wrote articles explaining how she supervised fabricators piecing together hundreds of opalescent shards for her window designs. Antiques: Rhode Island Americana, Mary Tillinghast and Byrdcliffe Art 2012-01-05T22:29:20Z The powdered slurry becomes a strong, opalescent material called sintered glass. Designers look to nature, landfills for new decor materials 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z He discovered his first fossil — a small opalescent ammonite — in Somerset, in southwest England, when he was 12, which ignited a passion for paleontology and led to his getting a Ph.D. in the subject. Amateur Fossil Hunters Make Rare Find in U.K. Using Google Earth 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z I also noticed opalescent scales and a bit of blood on my shoulder and back. ‘I Paid It No Mind and Kept My Head Low, Glued to My Music’ 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z He learned how to manipulate liquid nitrogen and carbon dioxide, how sodium alginate and calcium chloride could turn olive juice into an opalescent olive sphere. The Fed-Up Chef 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s only fitting that Oldham would grow up and launch an eponymous jewelry brand, which upends the fusty image of Chanel-clad socialites wearing a strand or two of smooth opalescent sea gems. Clutch your pearls! This man is turning the jewels into gender-neutral, playful accessories 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Beside us, in the lamplight, is a seated figure, inflamed and opalescent, like a flaring ember. Perspective | Join the crowd 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Her design is an extravagant mix of opalescent scales and brilliant plumes, and the animation of her coils displays a flair and vivacity her doll-like human version lacks. Review: Is this ‘White Snake’ love, or simply visual overkill? 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Its soil darkens from opalescent to dusky gray in response to the energetic particles that stream from the sun. Our moon — partner, protector, benefactor 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z Its leading edge has retreated rapidly this century, leaving an opalescent lake behind. Where Glaciers Melt Away, Switzerland Sees Opportunity 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z She gazed through microscopes at tiny opalescent mosaics made from butterfly wings, stone-fruit pits carved into sculptures, and statues on the heads of pins. Nicole Perlman Harnesses Her Superpowers 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z This particular car, then in opalescent blue, had its star turn at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, to bring attention to the Palace’s commitment to fight urban air pollution. 1968 Jaguar E-Type Zero: Revamping the Vintage Roadster as an Electric Car 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z We moved from place to place, imbibing the nectar of different cultures, much like the opalescent hummingbird. The Hummingbird and the Pine Tree 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z A glowing globe of a light, made of opalescent windowpane oyster shells, made a fine stand-in for a full moon. 3 Seattle restaurants that make you feel like you’re far, far away 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z The biggest trend this quarter, for example, is shiny, iridescent, opalescent and silver, says Ms James. Are you a stationery addict? - BBC News 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z Creeks and man-made canals held water that swirled in a range of toxic hues: umber-slate, or milky green, or shades of blue-gray that were indistinguishable from the opalescent sheen-coated soil. Edward Burtynsky’s Epic Landscapes 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Outside, the only light is from the opalescent ribbons of the Milky Way. Abandoned children, answered prayers: 1 week in Romania 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z One of the building’s main features is an opalescent art-glass dome covering the grand rotunda, which pays tribute to 24 of the great philosophers and educators, including six from Indiana. ISU has $55M in construction projects underway on campus 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z As Melida returned to the factory line, with its thousands of bottles of opalescent anti-aging serum for “Beauty Emergencies,” an idea struck her. Kidnapped at the Border 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Customized as a food prep island and dining counter with a polished stainless-steel top and a base embellished with opalescent brown lip shell fragments, it defines the kitchen area in the open-plan living space. Meghan McCain's home: She calls her style 'Scarface meets Graceland' 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z It is little to them that there is a blush in the horizon, and that a moment ago the sea was opalescent, and the mountains put on and off their royal vestments of purple. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z Who could be afraid of submarines in that quiet, opalescent water, that pearl-gray haze? The Clammer and the Submarine 2012-04-17T02:00:15.727Z A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; - called by lapidaries moonstone. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The color is to be added with stirring till an opalescent film forms on the surface of the mixture. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z She rivals the Succory in beautifying arid dust heaps and barren railroad cuts, with her tender opalescent pink tints. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Even the fierce midday sun does not wholly dispel it: the air remains thick, opalescent, like water slightly clouded by milk. In Morocco 2012-03-05T03:00:11.463Z Sesquioxide of chromium imparts a beautiful green colour to glass, while oxide of uranium produces an opalescent effect of yellow with a tinge of green. British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. 2012-02-26T03:00:18.883Z When dry, the plates had a thin opalescent appearance, and the deposit of bromide seemed to be very evenly spread in the substance of the substratum. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z It was a beautiful and still evening in autumn, with the opalescent sky of crystalline clearness, which so often in Japan gives us a hint of the infinite. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z This was wilfully streaked, mottled and quasi-accidentally varied; some of it was opalescent; much of it was more like agate or onyx than jewels. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z First, silvery threads of light began to weave along the bristling ridges of the east and opalescent flecks to glimmer overhead. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z The sandy depths, stirred by the swells, gave the blue sea a lighter shade, which attained, along the shore, an opalescent hue, like that of absinthe. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z The mist, palely opalescent, drives past her out of nothing into nowhere. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z The sudden darkness betrayed the opalescent windows of the Beau's bed-chamber. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z But yet more strange, above the ‘paarl,’ as Klaas quaintly called it, and overhanging it, was a kind of canopy of stalactite of the same brilliant opalescent colours. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z The rain ceased towards morning, the wind slackened, and when the sun rose behind the hills the western sky shone opalescent, and the sea below it was a cold, dark blue. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z In the distance the prospect terminated in a ridge, above which hovered a light mass of opalescent cloud. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z Quartz is very seldom absent and may be blue or milky and opalescent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z There was a curious stillness as of frost, and she watched the reflection of the fire leaping in opalescent miniature about the high windows. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z Did false Poseidon, to my hurt Leagued with my foe, bid you desert Your opalescent pearly caves, Your dances on the shelly strand? The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z It passed from existence behind and about me as if it were annihilated, without wasting away in the opalescent appearance once familiar as that of a spreading fog. 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 These stretch away into an opalescent haze, out of which to the north and east rise the peaks of far-distant mountains. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z This I dropped into a tumbler and saw the water cloud with an opalescent mist of a myriad motes and I knew that my plan was successful. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z The opalescent animal light gleamed in her eyes as she turned them northward, and she paced backward and forward with impatient strides like a captive lioness. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z Again they sat on the beach watching the opalescent mountains. The Motor Maids Across the Continent 2011-09-17T02:00:31.140Z The opalescent light from the bronze electric lamp on the mahogany writing table disclosed two gentlemen, whose attitudes and expressions left no doubt as to the serious import of their discussion. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z It was pale, opalescent; here shimmering with the hues of the moonbow; here dusked with violet shadow, but, for the most part, pale, opalescent. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z A gray, opalescent cloud came over his eyes; his head fell slightly toward his right shoulder in an attitude of careful consideration. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z It was deep purple in tint, of a diaphanous material, and rendered opalescent, shot with gleams of pale blue and pale yellow, by some cunning arrangement of silk underneath. Jane Oglander 2011-08-30T02:00:38.717Z We saw what seemed a limitless expanse of bright water, which merged into the opalescent sky walls. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z He read the lettering reflectively as he blew out clouds of the fragrant, opalescent incense: "Protest Against Machine-Rule." The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z I was trying to match the tone of an opalescent cloud inlaid with mother-of-pearl, the shadow side all purplish gray. The Other Fellow 2011-08-23T02:00:31.420Z Leftwards are the Apennines, opalescent in the morning mist, capped with snow upon their peaks. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z Again, it was pressed into a basin flaming with magical fires, burning behind a mystic curtain of opalescent frosts. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z The light at sunset upon this reef was like the refraction of some hidden prism, shimmering opalescent, a suffusion of vague and unspeakably lovely hues. Stevenson's Shrine The Record of a Pilgrimage 2011-07-18T02:00:23.520Z One day, when the king walked alone in his garden by the sea, a strange mist crept over the land and water, silvery, opalescent, wonderful. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z The sunlight vanished, the opalescent green of the sea grew darker and darker, and then blackness enshrouded all. A Diplomatic Woman 2011-06-10T02:00:18.297Z Amid a theatre of opalescent clouds reefed in the east, the sun diffused its glory, and shaped rubescent coral columns, edging its facade with azure and gold. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z In truth, Loveliness was an aristocrat to the end of his tongue, which curled daintily against his opalescent teeth. Loveliness A Story 2011-04-27T02:00:23.450Z That it had been long in use was evident from the fine opalescent enamelling of the inside. Stevenson's Shrine The Record of a Pilgrimage 2011-07-18T02:00:23.520Z It is El Aud of Arabia; all opalescent inlay of mother-of-pearl, pegs and frets marked with dull color. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z The oyster vanquishes the invader by surrounding it with the fine, opalescent deposits of calcium carbonate known as nacre, and little by little a pearl is born. Obituaries: Salvador Assael, 88, Dies; Coaxed Riches From Pearls 2011-04-13T00:27:54Z There are islands and promontories faintly visible in the soft opalescent haze. France 2011-03-27T02:00:11.847Z It was of smooth, dark wood polished like a malacca cane, and set at the top with a curious, green, opalescent stone, as large as a sparrow’s egg. Mysterious Mr. Sabin 2011-03-24T02:00:10.087Z Vapours were rising from the ravine: the sun shone upon them, throwing a golden aureola about the opposite mountains, and all the wreathing mists that the wind whirled down the valley had elusive, opalescent effects. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z Adriance slowly looked over the room, not very large, perhaps, yet scarcely cramped; made lovely by opalescent lamps and fragrant by the perfume of roses set in high, slender vases of rock-crystal. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z Before him, to the south, lay the thirty-mile stretch of ice, flanked by rolling hills, flooded with opalescent tints and peace. The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike 2011-03-06T03:00:22.017Z An extremely mobile opalescent light crosses the length of the stone in an oblique direction. Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured 2011-03-03T03:00:48.597Z Presently it formed into a rich and opalescent cloud-column, which speedily changed into a large globe, winged, radiant and beautiful. Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story 2011-02-25T03:01:12.293Z The waters broke on the rocks with opalescent spray; the whole coloring was suggestive of the vivid tints of a Turner landscape. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z On she went into the increasing gloom, until the snow carpet appeared to grow hot, and opalescent colours fringed the trees, and sounds of sleepy music hummed around her head. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z The designs were worked out in transparent white, pale blue, sapphire blue, light green, emerald green, olive, brown, opalescent, or claret color. Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z Q.—Can you describe one of the opalescent beings? The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Rosy flakes swam in the opalescent ether, and way beyond appeared the vault of another heaven, which in some places burst through the nearer sky like a deep blue foreboding. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z The point at which the sample becomes opalescent is first noted and the heating continued until the contents of the tube becomes uniformly transparent. Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. He did not offer to move as they slipped past, but stood there peacefully, in water which reflected the sunset skies and small opalescent clouds floating above. Dick's Desertion A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests He asked her to sit down; she did so; he sat down by her side; the dark cloak slipped off and she was magnificent, with her white neck, siren-like in her opalescent, pale-green watered silk. Majesty A Novel The shining beings appear to be lower in the hierarchies; the opalescent beings are more rarely seen, and appear to hold the positions of great chiefs or princes among the tribes of Dana.’ The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z By no means a constant absintheur, in his moods he liked to watch the opalescent gleams that flash in a glass of Pernod. The Key to Yesterday Before finally melting to a perfectly clear fluid, the sample becomes opalescent and usually appears clear at the top, bottom, and sides before becoming clear at the center. Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. But the most curious part of their climb past the falls was the rainbow that persisted in following them till they seemed to be at the hub of a huge semicircle of opalescent tints. Unexplored! Gilbert Deyes raised his glass and looked thoughtfully into its opalescent depths. The Missioner I speak this with reference to the shining beings only: I think that among the opalescent or Sidhe beings, in the heaven-world, there is an even closer spiritual unity, but also a greater individuality.’ The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z He saw a most august immense being, glowing with a ruddy opalescent colour, sitting on a throne to the left”, or, to summarise from a later notebook,... The Trembling of the Veil It is usually only a fraction of a degree above the opalescent point noted. Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. The boy peered once more into the carved gallery, waiting till an up-flare of the dying fire again illumined the fantastic ceiling, whose fairy architecture gleamed opalescent in the 118orange glow. Unexplored! At last the trail led to a rocky cavern where phosphorescent eyes stared out of opalescent water. The Book of Gud Q.—You speak of the opalescent beings as great beings; what stature do you assign to them, and to the shining beings? The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z The opalescent lens is adapted to be fitted in front of the lamp after it has been inserted into the jack. Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. Starch is insoluble in water; but if boiled in water, the granules burst and a slimy opalescent mass, known as "starch paste," is obtained. The Chemistry of Plant Life They are usually glazed with thick, variegated or opalescent glazes, grey, blue, green, yellow or red, but flecked, veined and streaked with other tints. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" Her eyes were opalescent, her complexion translucent, her forehead high, and her cheekbones low. The Book of Gud The frail notes of the birds hinted at silence beyond, and through the opalescent and transuming landscape Guy and Pauline floated in fancy once more down the young Thames from Ladingford. Plashers Mead A Novel A rosily opalescent hue swam high into Della's face as she stepped out of the elevator, and dyed her neck. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole Other Optical Properties.—Sols are generally translucent and opalescent; many of them are highly colored, some of the sols of gold, platinum and other heavy metals possessing particularly brilliant colors. The Chemistry of Plant Life The nearest approach to white is found in an opalescent grey which shades off to greenish and bluish tints. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" I cannot adequately describe it, but I know that viewed in the opalescent light of the early setting sun it was just a fairy wonderland. Windyridge Tree shadows, conjured by the moon, waved on the walls, but very faintly, for the nightlight burned with steady flame in the opalescent saucer. Carnival We had loved Monet and the opalescent, shimmering lights in his water-garden series, but never had I been so stirred and thrilled by mere paint on canvas as I was by this Spaniard's work. Confessions of an Opera Singer Glycogen is a white, amorphous compound, readily soluble in hot water, forming an opalescent solution similar in appearance to the solutions of soluble starch. The Chemistry of Plant Life The whole style is archaic, the designs being heavily outlined in blue and washed over with a greenish yellow lustre, with beautiful opalescent reflets recalling mother of pearl. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" The opalescent bodies slipped away beyond his reach. Black Amazon of Mars Its general color scheme was darkly opalescent, subtly glowing, flattering to its clients. The Ambassador Into this opalescent scene, some days before the freshet reached its height, the logs began to come down. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life Two Venetian glass vases on the mantel gave out an opalescent gleam in the twilight. Molly Brown's Sophomore Days Golden, yellow, brown and opalescent lustres were also freely used at Gubbio, the ruby being only sparingly applied. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" The Hen joined them in their search, and as she fluttered down she managed to upset a glass retort from which an opalescent vapour began to escape. The City Curious A haze, vaguely opalescent, encircled the horizon like a ghost of absinthe. The Destroying Angel Henna-dyed nails are considered irresistible in Turkey, but your opalescent ones attract me infinitely more pleasantly.” Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part First she turned off all the lights in the hall but one, in an opalescent globe, over the front door, looked at the faintly lighted vestibule with a calculating eye, and turned that out also. The Wishing Moon Like the buildings they had seen, this also constructed of opalescent quartz. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 I fancy the cod nudge each other and wink when they see his old face looking down into those opalescent depths, and watch him feeling at his lines for a bite. An Ocean Tramp Twisting himself free from the loosened tentacle in one mighty effort, he whirled and fired pointblank at the opalescent globe on the head looming above him. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 As rapidly and silently as possible we hastened through the brilliant fungous forest, across the river of opalescent liquid, to the foot of the fall of fire. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 The lovely, opalescent dawn began to show in the East, and Malone tendered it some extremely rude words. Occasion for Disaster With quavering shrieks they scattered like frightened fowls as an airship descended between the tall buildings that reflected its passing in opalescent hues. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 The lamplight, or some inner flame of her own, drew opalescent gleams from her gray-greenish eyes as she descended. The Side Of The Angels A Novel Whatever the opalescent globe's eery powers might be, it was not indestructible. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 Shining opalescent mists swirled about it, and the ceaseless roar of it filled the cave with sound. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 He was fumbling with his opalescent vial, and with confused panic upon him he made the mistake of taking the diminishing drug. Astounding Stories, March, 1931 It seemed as if the prow kept pushing itself noiselessly into a wall of opalescent green which parted, glistening, and grew to an ethereal, rainbow-like translucency close at hand. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons It was light, not brilliantly light as it would be a little later on, but clear and opalescent, as though the sun were shining through fold upon fold of grey-blue gauze. Jan and Her Job She was tethered by a light metallic rope that ran from her waist to one of the metal beams supporting the great shimmering ball of opalescent fire which formed the central control of the hybrids. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 Quickly we made the bend in the cavern and followed at a halting run up the path beside the shimmering river of opalescent light. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 From my belt I took the opalescent vial with its one partly used pellet. Astounding Stories, March, 1931 Shadows of vague moving forms could be discerned on the opalescent glass, and the chatter of typewriters was almost disconcerting. A Great Man A Frolic Larger than a small balloon, and gradually, almost imperceptibly expanding, with its viscid transparency shot through with opalescent lights, the Thing lay there in the deepening twilight and palpably shivered. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 The hybrids are controlled through the small opalescent globes on their heads, globes that are in direct tune with a huge master globe of opalescent fire in the invaders' camp. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 I stepped confidently out of the jungle into the clearing below the splendid opalescent fall of fire—and threw myself backward in trembling panic. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 He hauled out an opalescent vial of the diminishing element. Astounding Stories, March, 1931 How could he fasten the repellor to that great, impenetrable, opalescent bulk? The Planetoid of Peril The sky overhead was opalescent; the ranges, dotted with grazing cattle and unbroken horses, were bathed in sunshine. The Spoilers of the Valley There was one vulnerable spot in the great hybrid holding him, and that was the opalescent globe on the creature's head. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 We reached the top of the cliff, where the opalescent river plunged down in the flaming fall. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 I sat up blindly with my vision full of opalescent lights and my ears ringing, unable to hear, see, or think. Disowned It lay without movement, stretched along the ground like a craggy, opalescent hill. The Planetoid of Peril The sun was setting in banks of gold and silver fog over the west end, and the sea was opalescent—vast, shimmering, heaving, beautiful. Tales of Fishes True, the glow of its globe was opalescent instead of white, but it seemed to offer its wearer the same immunity to the green moon's rays. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 The white coral string, against the satin softness of her throat, revealed its opalescent flush. The Innocent Adventuress The trail has strung upon it, as upon a silken cord, opalescent dawns and ruby sunsets. They of the High Trails A face was there—a man with a blur of opalescent light behind him. The World Beyond It was a perfect day, warm, hazy, with light fog, smooth, heaving, opalescent sea. Tales of Fishes She snapped the safety catch on the little bomb, then hurled it squarely at the giant opalescent globe looming close beside her. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 The opalescent nucleus in every silvery faceted form seemed to be “watching” with frightening intensity the figures on the pit’s edge above them. Devil Crystals of Arret The windows are made of oyster shells which are thin and flat; these cut in three-inch squares make a window peculiarly adapted to withstand the heavy storms and earthquakes; it transmits a pleasant opalescent light. An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China The starlight from the window-lens mingled with an opalescent sheen from the glowing walls. The World Beyond Tossed back once more upon the beach like an opalescent shell, Jacqueline, ankle-deep in foam, looked out across the flaming waters, her drenched hair dripping. The Maids of Paradise Down by the purple opalescent sea, Flung like a ribbon limp athwart the sky, A rose lay blooming on the restless lea, While sundry birds came chattering sweetly by. Alice in Blunderland An Iridescent Dream A second later the rat-man was pinned against the faceted crystalline side just under the opalescent nucleus. Devil Crystals of Arret An opalescent form of chalcedony is frequently gathered on California beaches and polished for tourists under the name of "California Moonstone." A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public The little line of vacuums and tubes of the space-globe's mechanisms went up into a burst of opalescent light under Lee's grim smashing blows. The World Beyond The sky was grey, opalescent in the north, tenderest green and azure in the east, while large, motionless clouds, as blue as vine-clad hills, shadowed in great clusters the vast canopy. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange A soft opalescent light shines through the skin of the belly. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Examine a drop of the supernatant opalescent emulsion microscopically to determine its freedom from clumps and masses. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. Some of the indestructible pearls are made over beads of opalescent glass, thus imparting a finer effect to the finished product. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public The clinging garment of mist, driven and dispersed by day's last flash of self-assertion, lay heaped and tumbled in the valleys, and the mountains stood knee-deep in an opalescent sea of foam. Captain Desmond, V.C. In the wake the phosphorous bubbles ran away, opalescent gleams springing upward, as if torches of Doris and her dancing Nereids. A Victor of Salamis The waves rolled languidly to his feet and receded, leaving scattered half-wreaths of opalescent foam on the snowy sands. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk If they could only escape from the pits there might be a chance to trap Layroh and slay him before he brought those hordes of opalescent slugs to life. The Cavern of the Shining Ones Each of the dials was of opalescent glass set in a framework of iron and was twenty-two feet or more in diameter. Christopher and the Clockmakers In the velvet blackness came two white eyes, milky, opalescent, small, far away,—awful eyes, like a dead dream. Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories Caught in the moss, encrusted on the rocks, sunken in the yellow sands, were opalescent, shining shells and pebbles, each one more beautiful than the last. Madge Morton's Victory It is whitish, opalescent, slightly granular, and can be compared to nothing better than the fatty substance which floats on the surface of soups after they have been allowed to cool. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources That evening after supper, Patty sat upon her doorstep and watched the slowly fading opalescent glow in which the daylight surrendered to encroaching darkness. The Gold Girl In its pure state it is opalescent, exhibiting vivid gleams of blue, green, gold, and copper-color, and, more rarely, of rose,—and is then, and deservedly, reckoned a precious stone. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Already, in the clear morning air, one can hear the stutter and skip and cough of the tractors along the opalescent sky-line, accosting the morning sun with their rattle and tattle of harvests to be. The Prairie Mother It was not yet dark; the world was in a soft glow of rose and violet, opalescent lights. The Branding Iron An opalescent mist lay along the horizon and the waves rolled in lazily, 169 too lazily to break with their accustomed crash. The Dragon's Secret The vivid opalescent lights of the western sky grew fainter, faded. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters The mirror-like surface of the river was blurred with twisting spirals of mist, silvery and opalescent, through which the dim-seen figure of a duck in straight flight shot like a missile. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life There was soaring lights, figures and the opalescent glow of ground glass doors marked with black inscriptions. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays This year I have seen the Weisshorn thus dissolved in opalescent air. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The captain's face receded, and a scene of tragic horror filled the opalescent visiplate. The Sky Trap Kendall looked out at the magnificent display of clashing, warring energies, the great, whirling spheres and discs of opalescent flame, and turned away sadly. The Ultimate Weapon A few minutes later, the good sun having dried its wings, it went darting and hurtling over the pool, a gemlike, opalescent shining thing, reflected gloriously in the polished mirror beneath. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life While, across this last, lay horizontal lines of fringed, semi-transparent, opalescent cloud. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Above them, the opalescent haze of October rose like a faint blue smoke, but within the woods the subdued light was richly colored, like that which passes through the stained glass of a great cathedral. The Squirrel-Cage Many other stones possess one or more properties of the opal, and are therefore considered more or less opalescent. The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones Abruptly they leapt out, invisible till they entered a magnetic screen, then run over with opalescent light as the energy of the field was sucked into them and released. The Ultimate Weapon An opalescent, slightly tinted discharge is composed of mucus and indicates a little more severe irritation. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse The blue of the upper sky was crossed by curved windows of flaky, opalescent cloud. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance It was impossible for her to recognize Diantha's companion or to know indeed, that the opalescent flash of pink stood for Diantha's nearness. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale The sun was not above the horizon, but his rays caught these sheer, lawn-like streamers and played upon them with a most delicate opalescent radiance. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Her face, half concealed by the fringe of the awning, appeared opalescent in the filtered sunlight. Sacrifice I allude to the phase of the aura which presents the "pearly" appearance of the opalescent body, which we have just noted. The Human Aura Astral Colors and Thought Forms It is a picture beautiful as the opalescent colors of a soap bubble. The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice The former is easily separated from its opalescent solution. Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 From my belt I took the opalescent vial with its one partially used pellet. Beyond the Vanishing Point The soft, opalescent mornings are fragrant with love and pleasure. The Choice of Life Helplessly the beautiful, rainbow-tinted creatures floated about, their opalescent hues fading soon after the Moros took them from the water. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old The lovely, opalescent dawn began to show in the East, and Malone swore at it. Supermind Thus in the opalescent or milky solutions in which a proportion of cellulose nitrate is held in solution or semi-solution by the acetone still present, the lead acetate causes a dense coagulation. Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 When we emerged we were sliding swiftly down into a sun-warmed valley sloping to the west, where hills as lovely as jewels alternated with smooth opalescent mesas over which white clouds gleamed. A Daughter of the Middle Border Shadows thickened in the eastern skies as if fold after fold of finest crape were drawn over the field of watery and opalescent light the fallen sun had left behind it. Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray And if the diamonds about her smooth white throat had wondrous sheen they were not more lustrous nor more full of sparkling fire than her opalescent eyes. High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn “Flesh tea allee leady,” cried a familiar voice in my ear; and I started up to see the sun peering over the edge of the mountains to light up the beautiful opalescent mists floating below. To The West Low down in the deep defiles there were hanging mists which looked like veils of silver decked with opalescent tints of the most delicate transparency, as they floated slowly before the morning breeze. Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor And then, as if it were a magical change, the mist overhead grew opalescent, then lighter still, as there was a warm breath of air sweeping over the dingy, murky sea. Steve Young The black stared, with the opalescent whites of his eyes forming rings around his irides. King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale Then I had a good look at the officers and sailors, many of whom were yellow-faced lascars with dark oily-looking eyes, whose whites seemed to have an opalescent tinge. Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East The lights were rapidly fading to beautiful opalescent hues. The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life A tablecloth of glass recently completed shines with a satiny, opalescent luster by day, and under gaslight shows remarkable beauty. Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Each reflector apparently focussed upon an object in the center, a helix which seemed to writhe luridly in that flaming focus, glowing with a nacreous, opalescent green light. Skylark Three The opalescent tints of the dying day, and the scarlet curtains flung across the Occident at the sun's exit give place to that indescribable depth of purple of the high upland's sky. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development The bow radiance was a narrow opalescent beam in advance of the bow. Wandl the Invader Inside a room rose, high, domed, vaulted above his head, whitish opalescent, washed with green. The Colors of Space Above the city, its dome was opalescent in the morning sun. Rebels of the Red Planet While thus engaged a beautiful colour effect developed softly before us through an opalescent, vaporous shroud. A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 Somewhere a temple, opalescent in the sunset, suggested rather than defined itself. The Spinner's Book of Fiction It visibly struck us, bathed all our length in its spreading opalescent radiance. Wandl the Invader There was no enemy artillery-fire to disturb the calmness, and each day gave the same opalescent eastern sky at dawn and the same fast-dropping sun falling below the sea at night. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 Fort after fort glowed opalescent, then flashed into protective ionization of screening. Invaders from the Infinite The heaving, chameleon sea, unruffled by a breath of wind, gave back the colors quivering, burnished, opalescent, like the bowl of an abalone shell. Where the Sun Swings North Those robes which he had seen both silver gray and dark blue, now faded, pearled, thinned, until each of the three still gliding before him were opalescent columns without definite form. Key Out of Time In color it was vaguely opalescent, rather more brilliant at night than in the day. Wandl the Invader To tell the news of Hannaford's death would be to pour into the vase a dark liquid, and cloud the opalescent wine. The Guests Of Hercules It glowed opalescent now in a spot twenty feet across. Invaders from the Infinite His eyes were fixed on three Indian canoes being paddled in from the lagoon across the bay which was now taking on the opalescent tints of the late Alaska sunset. Where the Sun Swings North Through Debussy, music had liquified, become opalescent and impalpable and fluent. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers The opalescent beam from Earth had swept this portion of the sky and was gone below the horizon. Wandl the Invader Not a fish, so far as we could discover, lived in its opalescent water, cloudy as is all glacial water. Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains It increased in density, and was a solid, opalescent sphere. Invaders from the Infinite Here before my eyes was enacted a more wonderful change than the gradual transformation of transparent absinthe into an opaque opalescent liquid. The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont Bettine was electrical, magical, seeming ever to be overcharged with the spirit of nature; Günderode, cloudy, opalescent, suggesting a spirit native of some realm above nature. The Friendships of Women A titan's blowtorch, the opalescent light shot upward, a circular ten-foot beam, eating its way through all the city levels as though they were paper, up through the city roof. Wandl the Invader Two little red spots glowed in Moira's cheeks, and in her eyes was an opalescent glow that spoke of suppressed excitement. The Lost Valley There was a feeling of awful power that seeped into the minds of the watchers, and held them spellbound before the glowing, opalescent sphere. Invaders from the Infinite A sunset of myriad tints and opalescent fires made molten copper of the river and a carnival float of every craft. The Henchman The hour was hot and breathless, the middle distance quivering through a heat haze, and the remoter reaches of the prairie an opalescent blur. The Emigrant Trail And in the sky now we saw another of those familiar opalescent beams. Wandl the Invader The surface of the hillside slope Gleamed in my farthest vision's scope Like opalescent stone; Rich jewels hung on every tree, Whose crystalline transparency Golconda's gems outshone. Poems Vol. IV A whirling bevy of gulls circled the bar, left naked and opalescent by the receding tide. Flood Tide The solution may be slightly opalescent, but should show no signs of a precipitate. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. The black squadrons of the rooks had already sought their nests about the city walls, but relieved against the opalescent sky a single sparrow-hawk still hung floating with motionless wings above a solitary ilex tree. The Well of Saint Clare Across it, like a shining sword, was a narrow, opalescent beam. Wandl the Invader It was Easter evening, and the newly risen spring world was slowly sinking to a gentle, rosy, opalescent slumber, sweetly tired of the joy which had pervaded it all day. Violets and Other Tales Every wave, crowned with mist, caught us in a cool embrace, cradled us, and slipped away, only to leave us to another wave, higher, stronger, crested with opalescent glory, breathing incense. In Search of the Unknown More twists of woven fabric, opalescent and changing color as his head moved, made a turban for his head. Star Born For at these times no shadow of a man carrying sticks, no mark at all, shows on her opalescent surface. The Well of Saint Clare It all glowed opalescent in a moment, a dazzling glare. Wandl the Invader Shall we not view the picturesque if sinister old Absinthe House, dating from 1799, with its court and stairway so full of mysterious suggestion, and its misty paregoric-flavored beverage, containing opalescent dreams? American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Let no woman come to the prairie with dolce far niente dreams of opalescent peaks, of fenceless fields and rides to a horizon that forever recedes, with a wind that sings a jubilate of freedom. The Canadian Commonwealth Yet, there before each of them was the star, shining with its soft, opalescent light, and still ringing in their ears were the words of Balthazar—"we must follow the star." Christmas Stories And Legends A low cloud hung before her—a great opalescent and tremulous cloud, that seemed to rise from the steaming brows of millions of men. The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" A Tale Of The Forecastle The entire cauldron depression was now a blinding mass of opalescent light. Wandl the Invader A sunset may be compressed into minutes or an opalescent sky may be a motif. Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization The sun sank slowly westward, sending long rays across the bosom of the river, whose waters were so still that they gleamed with opalescent splendor. Princess The light around him was pearly, almost opalescent, fading eastwards into pink. The Black Box An opalescent light in the sky above Charing Cross soothed him for a moment. The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton In the deepening evening our widening V-shaped wake glowed with opalescent witch-fires. The River and I The evening lights were all opalescent on the water, there was peace in the air and brilliant fresh green on the trees, and soft and liquid rose the nightingale's note. Beyond The Rocks A Love Story Across the city, beyond the tin roofs and the chimney-pots, the sun was going down in a mist as sheer as gauze, and the surrounding atmosphere was charged with opalescent lights. The Voice of the People In its place was a great wrought-metal thing of old silver jeweled with opalescent medallions. The Witness The Terrace, and the gardens that dropped below it to the Thames, were bathed in the purplish opalescent shades of evening. In Friendship's Guise The microscopist revels in the forms of the dainty scales of its armor and the opalescent tints of its color. Among the Forces Looking back now, the thing seemed glaringly obvious; but, through the opalescent mist of his own dreams, he had seen Dyán in one relation only. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Dissolves in large quantities to a clear colorless glass. in the reducing flame.The glass obtained in the oxidizing flame and which has become opalescent on cooling, is rendered clear in the reducing flame. A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations The Wenuses then desisted from their labours of inflation, and suddenly plunging into the tanks, reappeared inside these opalescent globules. The War of the Wenuses He looked out on the opalescent dawn of the desert, and his blood quickened at sight of the enchanted mesa. Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West The lamps glimmered along Tremont Street through an opalescent haze which was stealing over the city from the bay. Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod Then the glowing sunset; the opalescent sea, and the soft afterglow of the sky—and the bugle summoning you to dress. African Camp Fires Many of the silicates give with borax a clear bead, while they form with microcosmic salt an opalescent one. A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations All the world was bristling with frost and a million opalescent lights danced on every snowdrift. Judith of the Godless Valley The Venetian glass jar is in opalescent green, made to hold dried rose leaves, and used here purely as an ornament which catches and reflects the light, important, as the hall is dark. The Art of Interior Decoration As he spoke he poured some of the opalescent liquid into a tumbler and handed it to Julian. Flames Then the sea lies in opalescent patches, and the low shores fade away into the gathering night. African Camp Fires If the bead is completely saturated, it retains its opalescent appearance. A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations The mesa ended abruptly in a drifted mountain, opalescent pink from its foot to its cone-shaped head. Judith of the Godless Valley For a woman's bathroom, Venetian glass bottles, covered jars and bowls of every size, come in opalescent pale greens and other delicate tints. The Art of Interior Decoration Bligh was that sort of man; accepted things without question; was content to take things as they were and be ready with the fenders when the wall of rock rose out of the opalescent mists. Widdershins Sea and sky mingled together, opalescent in the misty sunlight. Charles Rex It turns more yellow while cooling, and when cool is opalescent. A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations By night a bluish light, and large, white globes grown opalescent like moons, lit again to a ghastly, ruinous life. The Tree of Heaven The lamps shining through it blend in a delicate opalescent sheen, shot here and there with brighter flares. Shandygaff She was dressed to-night in a filmy vesture of opalescent or pearly white, partly diaphanous, and having a deep fringe of gold. A Trip to Venus The dome of its Casino gleamed opalescent in its centre—a place for wonder—a place for dreams. Charles Rex With the addition of more of the lead oxide, it becomes opalescent. A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations And the star came and poised among the branches of the palm-tree over the tank, opalescent, unearthly, heart shaking. Mr. Isaacs These canvases of Botticelli seem to give forth the opalescent over-tones of an unearthly composition. Promenades of an Impressionist The walls of the buildings are pierced on all sides with broad windows or embrasures, filled, it seemed, with an opalescent glass. The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars Steadily the triumphant rose spread upward in the pale opalescent sky, and broad waves of light rippled slowly over the wide level plain. Six Women Borax dissolves silver-oxides upon platinum wire in the oxidation flame but partially, while the other portion is reduced, the bead appearing opalescent after cooling, in correspondence to the degree of saturation. A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations For, while nothing in nature is more exquisite, few things are more virulent than this animated, opalescent, iridescent bubble with its long, delicate, purplish tentacles. Dick in the Everglades It is so pliable, so dreamy, and so opalescent that I can scarce restrain my enthusiasm. Reveries of a Schoolmaster A woman of wide sympathies and cultivated tastes, she delighted in the clever cosmopolitan society that gathered in her drawing-room; and it was in this opalescent social sea that she launched young Mrs. Champneys. The Purple Heights The sun was setting far away in an opalescent glow of mauve and pink and pearl. The Top of the World By the addition of more of the molybdenic acid the bead is dark yellow, or red while hot, and opalescent when cold. A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations Some are jasper, and look like masses of red sealing-wax; others are agate, or opalescent chalcedony, beautifully lined and variegated; many retain the graining, layers, knots, and other details of their woody structure. Overland Signs of it showed at the park edges, where the high willow hedges began to give forth shoots of yellowish-green; at times the lake was opalescent and the sky had moments of tenderness and warmth. The Precipice She prefers to paint her pictures out of doors and in the sunlight, which results in her working in a high key and, as she writes, "in tender, opalescent color." Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. The sun went down in an opalescent glow of mauve and pink and pearl that spread far over the veldt, and she felt that the beauty of it was almost more than she could bear. The Top of the World Microcosmic Salt dissolves oxides of silver in the flame of oxidation upon platinum wire to a transparent yellowish bead, which presents, when much of the oxide is present, an opalescent appearance. A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations The opalescent half-globe on the ceiling seemed to be the most vulnerable point for attack. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography It did not occur to her that they had found the performance too opalescent and elusive. The Precipice And so, like some weft of opalescent mist, the sweet mirage melted in the noonday. The Silent Isle As we saw it first—opalescent in the soft, clear light of sunset—the chief impression it made upon us was that of size; for this we were quite unprepared. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil There were quivering flames above it and shells were bursting over it with pretty little puffs of smoke which rested in the opalescent sky. The Soul of the War How had it been possible to get from such an opalescent dawning to such a dismal day? Love and Mr. Lewisham To the south, lying low, was a mass of light clouds, volatile, changing with opalescent lights as he looked. The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West He opened his eyes to see a necklace of opalescent jewels gathering about his neck; he tore at it and the phosphorescent water gleamed all about him with feathery pendants. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Sweet the first opalescent stir, as if the vanguard sunbeams shivered as they dashed along the chilly reaches of night. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Even the fierce midday sun does not wholly dispel it—the air remains thick, opalescent, like water slightly clouded by milk. In Morocco The air became gray and opalescent; a solitary light suddenly outlined a window over the way; then another light; then a hundred more danced and glimmered into vision. This Side of Paradise He led us to a tiny fountain room in whose miniature pool the white waters were concentrated, pearl-like and opalescent in their circling rim. The Moon Pool Over its inaccessible peaks the opalescent fog settles like a snowy veil on the forehead of a bride. The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution And over all, hills and valley and canyon and mountain, was a bright opalescent mist. Rezanov The effect was exquisite, the window a veritable masterpiece, glowing, flaming, and burning with a hundred tints and colours—opalescent, purple, wine-red, clouded pinks, royal blues, saffrons, violets so dark as to be almost black. The Octopus : A story of California The evening daylight in the streets was large and luminous, opalescent and empty. The Wisdom of Father Brown And before this shrine—for nothing else could it be, I knew—three slender cones raised themselves: one of purest white flame, one of opalescent water, and the third of—moonlight! The Moon Pool Only one of them was lit, and its Murano-glass pendants, its carnations and roses, shone opalescent in the light of the guttering wax. Hauntings Her opalescent eyes looked from out her chalky countenance; but they were not hard eyes, indeed they seemed the eyes of innocence. City of Endless Night Anthony's cigarette contributed to the hazy oxidation which seemed to roll back and forth in opalescent clouds with every motion of the train. The Beautiful and Damned Through the opalescent dream of these first days and nights, shot the fiery thought of our mission in Asiut. It Happened in Egypt On and on it swept toward us—an opalescent mistiness that sped with the suggestion of some winged creature in arrowed flight. The Moon Pool In the air a faint haze swam, rendering the distances opalescent. The Black Bag We sailed now a sea of opalescent greens and purples that shimmered and changed with the changing lights. The Mutineers After a long time Anthony arose and drew an opalescent dressing grown of brown and blue over his slim pleasant figure. The Beautiful and Damned In the Mare's Nest I shall discover that dim, enormous opalescent egg from which is hatched the Nightmare. Alarms and Discursions And between the two the gardens grew sweetly down to the hither side of that opalescent water across which were the radiant cliffs and the curtain of mystery. The Moon Pool He looked across the motley sea toward an opalescent sky reddening in the east. The Cruise of the Dry Dock There had been a glorious sunset, and red and golden lights shone over the low western sky, while above them was that tender opalescent green which heralds the mellow splendour of the moon. The Golden Calf It was about seven o'clock, the opalescent lights were beginning to show in the sky, and their reflection in the water, as he stooped his tall head to enter the covered gondola. Three Weeks The startled girl looked up and down the street, and then at the balcony which stood out against the opalescent sky, the tracery of ironwork showing like delicate etching on the luminous background. Revenge! To the right, between the columns, are great opalescent doors. The Blue Bird: a Fairy Play in Six Acts Through the tall windows on the left sunlight was streaming in, touching the steamy vapors with opalescent tints of soft pinks and grayish blues. L'Assommoir For a second the lily was enveloped in a milk-white foam, which disappeared, leaving the fluid opalescent. The King in Yellow Sometimes they found it in a thin stratum at the bottom of crevices, where it could be detached in opalescent plates and leaves of the thickness of paper. The Moon Metal It was low tide and the river was bordered by banks of mud, grey too, yet opalescent. The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing And besides these wild horse-men there are quiet and lovely figures like "A Mother of the Rosses," holding her child to her breast in an opalescent twilight, through which the boat that carries her moves. Imaginations and Reveries On adding gelatine to this liquid, a slimy precipitate is thrown down, leaving a slightly opalescent liquid. Synthetic Tannins The blade is of yellow, opalescent chalcedony, beautifully chipped and polished. Early European History And now, Sir Walter, looking over his shoulder, saw the other wherry bearing down upon them through the faintly opalescent mists of dawn. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series She was clad in flowing lines of opalescent green, and her black hair was banded low across the forehead with a narrow line of emerald. The Nest Builder To be intelligible we replace the opalescent shining by the terms of the scientist, and we prate of occult physiology in the same breath with the Most High. Imaginations and Reveries When heated several hours an opalescent liquid results from which, however, no flocculent deposits separate when left for some time. Synthetic Tannins They were dressed in gaily-coloured dresses: all of them strong and robust; they sang their love-songs—old and sad and free—and gazed into the gathering opalescent mists. Tales of the Wilderness Rain rattled heavily, against the panes and on the lighted roof of opalescent glass below, through which he could make out the shadowy fronds of palms. The Fighting Chance Their snowy sides glittered pink in the sun and purple in the shadows; they reared their frosted crests as if in welcome of the morning; behind them the sky gleamed opalescent. The Nest Builder It was just after sunset and the tumbled old buildings traced magical outlines against an opalescent sky of gold and red. Three John Silence Stories The blue, opalescent glare from the Gaiety dome still shone. The Double Traitor Boil until an imperfect opalescent solution is obtained. A Practical Physiology The floor is inlaid, and the windows, which are of opalescent glass, throw over the structure a soft white light, admitting of the perfect harmony of colours which everywhere adorn this very beautiful chapel. The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) She turned to the portrait, a clever study in lights keyed to the opalescent tones of the silk dress, and showing Felicity poised for the first step of a dance. The Nest Builder The thyroid is still another device of life for procuring more and more variation and differentiation, its goal, as far as we can peer through the opalescent screen upon which its manifestations quiver. The Glands Regulating Personality He had fine, calm, quietly observant eyes, which were pleasantly employed in contemplating the beauty of that summer seascape—an opalescent ocean, and islands slumbering in the July haze. Hawthorne and His Circle This loggia opened widely to the air on two sides, so that the opalescent views were framed in oblong borders of stone that rested our rejoicing eyes. Memories of Hawthorne The firelight glanced and glowed on her throat and bosom, tingeing their marble with opalescent lights, and searching the deep shadows under her long lashes. In the Quarter The phosphoric candles of the fireflies began to twinkle here and there, shining brightly against the black trunks of the trees, and lost again on the silvery background of opalescent evening sky. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan Swank only allowed himself the use of the three primary colors—consequently his rendering of the opalescent beauty of this particular dawn was somewhat beyond me. The Cruise of the Kawa It was twilight; opalescent waves of heat rolled above the blistered sands. Man on the Box The water was opalescent under a silver sky, cool and dim, very slightly ruffled by the sweet wind that followed us in from the sea. Letters from America Little fish begin to leap; they spring and fall in glittering showers like opalescent blown spray. Two Years in the French West Indies Through the opalescent green overside could be seen a huge shadowy shape slowly settling downward, though from the depth two menacing eyes gleamed upward at the young watchers. The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest The saline tracts between the prisms produce a milky or opalescent appearance. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 To-day this bridge was, like the grades, like the trees and the meadows furred over with opalescent, feathery frost. Over Prairie Trails He had never before seen a woman like her—innocent but astute, daring but demure, brilliant but opalescent. The Perils of Pauline These two ladies, also, were pictures of radiant loveliness—especially were they radiant, for every beam of light found an answering flash in the shimmering iridescence of their beads and jewels and opalescent sequins. Oh, Money! Money! To be intelligible we replace the opalescent shining by the terms of the anatomist, and we speak of the pineal gland and the pituitary body in the same breath with the Most High. AE in the Irish Theosophist There are fires on Lulu Island, and the sky is opalescent With the pearl and purple tinting from the smouldering of peat. Flint and Feather There were always the sky, the clouds, the clear sunshine, the crisp-etched shadows; and in the afternoon there was always the wondrous opalescent haze of August, filling every distance. The Cardinal's Snuff-Box Far, far away a group of palms caught opalescent reflections. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel The landscape below was level and unvaried, of a greenish hue, and much like that of Chick's own earth in the early spring-time—a vast expanse, level and sometimes dotted with opalescent towns and cities. The Blind Spot They passed on and went deeper into the Gardens of Twilight, which were ever-changing, opalescent, ever-blushing with new and momentary beauty, ever-vanishing before the steady gaze to reveal beneath more silent worlds of mystic being. AE in the Irish Theosophist Like a Venus she rises from her bath of opalescent mists and dons a gown of pearl. Half a Rogue It was the artist, too, who had found in a rare and happy moment the massive gold candelabra—ancient things of a more luxurious age—and their opalescent shades. Brewster's Millions He was painting on a canvas—beautiful colours, red and gold and white, in glorious opalescent streaks in all directions. Nonsense Novels It was scintillating, coruscating, opalescent; but it was blue most of all. The Blind Spot Ah, what plumage of white fire rayed out with pinions of opalescent glory! AE in the Irish Theosophist In his den at his bachelor apartments, he worked; but here he dreamed, usually behind the soothing, opalescent veil of Madame Nicotine. Half a Rogue Near, it could be seen that this drapery was woven of tiny buds, pink and blue; afar she seemed to float in a shimmering opalescent mist. Angel Island I see an opalescent sky, and the great soft blue rollers of a sapphire sea. At Large On a small, black oak table at Rosamund's elbow two or three books were lying beside a bowl of dim blue glass which had opalescent lights in it. In the Wilderness Howard folded it to his heart, and felt the little pulse beat in the slender wrist; and presently the sun went down, a ball of fire into the opalescent sea-line. Watersprings The cool fresh April air rushed in, clearing the room of its opalescent clouds, cleansing his brain of the fever that beset it. Half a Rogue Harry was right—it was beautiful; and her gaze travelled the smooth surface of the walls, the blocks for which had been selected for their purity and dearness to obtain this opalescent, translucent effect. Flappers and Philosophers He was clothed in a dim robe, of an opalescent hue and misty texture, and his hands were clasped together. At Large But her most striking feature was her mouth—a sudden dash of violent coral-red in the opalescent white of her face. The Malady of the Century Doctor Douglass drew closer, and asked: "Will you let me stay also, and enjoy with you the wonderful charm of this opalescent air, this beautiful cincturing sea?" At the Mercy of Tiberius Brass-hued and opalescent bubbles, compounded of many gases, rise where passing feet have trodden the damper spots. The Dynasts They knew that the phenomenon was produced by myriads of luminous particles of phosphorescent corpuscles; but it was surprising to come across such an opalescent mass beyond the limits of the Indian Ocean. Robur the Conqueror The lights had been lowered, and only the opalescent bull's-eye glowed with undiminished brilliancy. The Gates of Chance A soft opalescent light shines through the integument of the belly. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects Both women and men were extremely eager for beads of all kinds, the most valuable being the red and blue porcelain for helmets, and the large opalescent bead, the size of a child's marble. The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile Berenice, on the other hand, the child of the first husband, was a creature of an exotic mind and an opalescent heart. The Titan Above, between their rims the wide ribbon of sky was like a fantastically shored river, shimmering, dazzling; every cove and headland edged with an opalescent glimmering as of shining pearly beaches. The Metal Monster It turns into an opalescent fluid, which runs like water. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography "Wine, Stuler, wine!" he called, laying down a coin, which gleamed dimly yellow in the opalescent light. The Puppet Crown The atmosphere was not too clear on the horizon for dreamy effects; all the headlands were softened and tinged with opalescent colors. Their Pilgrimage The sun was rising, and the water assumed an opalescent hue. The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Then suddenly, not a hundred yards from us, gushed out a flood of soft radiance, opalescent, filled with pearly glimmerings and rosy shadows of light. The Metal Monster They're white, often opaque but sometimes of opalescent transparency, and usually spherical or pear–shaped. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea There were soaring lights, figures and the opalescent glow of ground glass doors marked with black inscriptions. Active Service In the meadowed distance peat seemed to be being burnt, and over the black forest there had gathered an opalescent cloud of smoke which also suffused the neighbouring marshes. Through Russia And as the three tall white figures sped, with soundless tread, through the opalescent light, they appeared like specters flying from hateful shadows. Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ Then the wonderful fire of the malignant eyes, green, serpentine, opalescent, with the wave-like flux of a glowworm's light seen under a glass, riveted her attention. The Darrow Enigma We then see an exquisite nebula against whose opalescent tapestry the tiny animals gleam like twinkling orange stars. The Life of the Spider Why had he brought me here, into this fairyland of opalescent lights and intoxicating perfumes? The Woman in the Alcove A fog had arisen, and the struggling rosy beams of the sun glimmered opalescently through the density. Other Things Being Equal He had brought her a large bunch of early violets, for he knew that she was fond of flowers, and these lay upon her lap, against the opalescent grey of her gown. El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel His hair was opalescent and his conversation fragmentary. Options The very sight of their opalescent rapids and eddying pools was an invitation to that gentle sport which is said to have the merit of growing better as the weather grows worse. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness So, in such good company I may introduce an absinthe drip—one absinthe drip, dripped through a silver dripper, orderly, opalescent, cool, green-eyed—deceptive. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million Seated on a divan in the centre of the drawing-room, in a most distinguished attitude, in unexceptionable attire, and with the rose-coloured lights making all her soft greys opalescent, was Miss Salemina Peabody. Penelope's Irish Experiences A cabbage in the foreground became opalescent, and an ear of corn a mass of jewels, but the whole atmosphere above and beyond was lurid, and the chimneys and church spires were topsy-turvy. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 It was not red blood, but a milky, opalescent fluid. A Voyage to Arcturus Then holding it to the bulb of his reading lamp he added the water and stood watching the slow pearly eddies in the mixture mingle into an opalescent uniformity. Soul of a Bishop It was large as a pigeon egg, a perfect sphere, of a whiteness that reflected opalescent lights from all colors about it. South Sea Tales On his chest, suspended from a single string of porpoise-teeth around his throat, hung a big crescent carved out of opalescent pearl-shell. Adventure But now the unsailed harbour was quite still, in the pause of the evening; and the smooth undulations were caressed by a hundred opalescent hues, growing deeper toward the west, where the river came in. The Ruling Passion; tales of nature and human nature When water was added it became streaked and opalescent, with a kind of living quiver in it. Soul of a Bishop |
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