| 单词 | opaline |
| 例句 | Two weeks before the end of the term, the sky lightened suddenly to a dazzling, opaline white and the muddy grounds were revealed one morning covered in glittering frost. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Vignettes of snuff boxes, opaline and majolica are carefully arranged. What I Love: Betty Halbreich’s Home Away From Bergdorf’s 2013-08-15T21:40:29Z The sleek green opaline glass tiles that form the vaulted ceiling give the sensation that you’re in a distant underwater universe. In Energized Detroit, Savoring an Architectural Legacy 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Instead of the traditional stark-white walls typically found in galleries, the building features travertine stone floors that contrast against opaline concrete masonry and rough wood. The Prada Foundation’s New, Rem Koolhaas-Designed Tower 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z The opaline burbot, delicate in its buttery sauce, gets an earthy base from local carrots spiced with caraway. Reindeer Powder and Arctic Turnip Crepes: Helsinki’s New Food Scene 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The next day he wrote back, I would be an opaline gourami. Losing Max Ritvo 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z A mix of large communal tables, banquettes, and two-tops, all by the English contemporary furnituremaker Benchmark, also helps create a lively atmosphere in the dining room, which is lit by vintage-style opaline globe lights. The Traditional French Brasserie Gets a Refresh in London 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z To me, the opaline ripples hold memories of my father, who sailed competitively, beating Ted Turner at the 5.5 meter 1972 world championship. A Grand Tour of Switzerland, Reluctant Son in Tow 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z An oval sapphire ringed by emerald flecks, silver spires and opaline sky, Sylvan Lake remains a Black Hills crown jewel 138 years after Theodore Reder dammed Sunday Gulch Creek to create it. Excerpts from recent South Dakota editorials 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Driving backward while dragging a bad front wheel, Spirit gouged a trench that revealed opaline silica, a mineral that on Earth is a sure sign of life-supporting hot springs. NASA's next Mars rover could explore former mineral springs and a fossil river delta 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z There, Spirit found deposits of a mineral called opaline silica at a site known as Home Plate. NASA’s Bold Plan to Hunt for Fossils on Mars The opaline lamp shed a bright light which dazzled me.” Excerpts of Nobel Prize winner’s works in English 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z A new study published in March reported that the opaline secretion actively masked the chemosensory and motor neurons of the sea hares’ top predator – spiny lobsters. Top Ten Strangest Animal Moments of 2013 2013-12-26T16:45:03.961Z The highly viscous nature of opaline may create a tactile sensation of food, contributing to the mimicry.” Sea hares thwart spiny lobster attack with goo 2013-03-30T15:15:00.373Z Nor did the food prove less repulsive, especially the opaline, greenish-white whale blubber, which, cut into long, thin strips, forms a choice delicacy known to the Inuits as ortchok. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z I have seen many beautiful faces in the various lands where my wandering life has carried me, but nowhere so many, so delicate, of such opaline transparency of complexion, of such exquisite purity as now. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z A brass oil lamp with an opaline shade hung over the table from a beam beneath the skylight. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z She was mounted on a white steed, and was clad in a silken robe of opaline hue, her cloak and cap jewelled with moonstones. The Village of Youth and Other Fairy Tales 2011-08-06T02:00:04.530Z This means that the thick, sticky texture of the opaline is the key to physically blocking the ability of the sea hare’s predator to identify it as food. Sea hares thwart spiny lobster attack with goo 2013-03-30T15:15:00.373Z Immediately afterwards she slowly protruded a dense bunch of the fine long hairs, which quivered in the light, and shone with a delicate bluish-green lustre, here and there varied by opaline tints. Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations 2011-08-01T02:00:12.067Z The opaline splendor of the morning thrilled her with an appreciation that she had never felt before. Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls 2011-07-17T02:00:32.837Z Clouds of an indigo darkness, of immense bulk, and motionless, reduced the sunset to mere runnels of opaline light about the bases of dark mountains inverted in the heavens. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Sufficient for thy shoals Was Carnival: Parini’s depths enshrine Secrets unsuited to that opaline Surface of things which laughs along thy scrolls. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z So more recently, Derby joined Tiffany Love-Chezem and Juan Aggio from Georgia State to test if it was the chemical composition or the stickiness of the opaline secretion that was achieving this effect. Sea hares thwart spiny lobster attack with goo 2013-03-30T15:15:00.373Z It illuminated the dull water-meadows, evoking colour—iridescent, opaline tints—where colour had ceased to be. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z Beyond the mission, the broken hills of Pondoland, divided by the winding Umzimvubu—“the river of the sea-cows”—stretched away towards the ocean until they merged with the sky in an opaline haze. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z Often the desert dawn is followed by a faint semi-opacity; an opaline suggestion of vapourised moisture,—the diaphanous veil of evaporated dew. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z The delicate skyey background of opaline tints and lustre made distinct and definite their majestic symmetry of outline. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z Often he had seen it among his native Carolina hills, this opaline opening of the morn, but never before with such a thrill of appreciation, such a rush of exquisite joy. Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z Faintly glimmering, how magically it transformed from a dim, neutral-tinted waste to an opaline clarity of hue—a fuller crimson. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z It hung for a breath like a broken, opaline halo round the moon. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z Except for his opaline ethics, never glaring yet never dulled, he is manifestly toned down to suit the most neurasthenic exaction. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z The sun's last rays having disappeared, the opaline clouds looked like wreaths of smoke or pearly-grey mists. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z From the ceiling hung a gilded lamp with opaline shades and blue silk covers over the shades. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Its texture is soft, smooth, and very thin; it is translucent and of an opaline, or grayish-white color. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers All day its towering opaline crest serves as a beacon from afar. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu Through this opaline archway she had walked with her fancies, like Saint Catherine with her lily. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life The Osmanli came on, slowly pushing that immense ripple across the opaline floors. Captain Macedoine's Daughter The lake lay blue and still, with an opaline sky, shot with gold, reflected in it. Francezka One small electric globe hung lit under its opaline veil in the corner by the end window on the right. The Return of the Prodigal Every colour of beauty was radiantly bright, Blending faith, hope, and love in its opaline light. Threads of Grey and Gold What colors of dull red and amber, of pink and palest green, what opaline lights, and smooth, glimmering surfaces! Froebel's Gifts And her diaphanous feet Are easy as the dew or opaline heat Of summer. Weeds by the Wall Verses But the white was not so opaline; nor was there, what surprisingly increased the effect, that breathless, crystal stillness over all. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) The dawn came up by and by; first in faint opaline splendors, then scarlet and gold. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart The look is distinctly opaline, or, as a poet has called the opal, like "a pearl with a soul in it." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 Occasionally the outstretched head of a wild duck, pumping north with a black throb of wings, melts away to a speck in the opaline air. The Prairie Child Beautiful flowers shone white and pink and yellow in the opaline light of the evening; and ’Tana mechanically plucked a few that touched her as she passed, but she gave little notice to their beauty. That Girl Montana Placed in an emerald world with a hither side of opaline shadow, and a fine dust of diamonds to set Duty determines destiny. The Girl Wanted Tuba is an opaline, slightly sweet liquid, with an agreeable taste, which rapidly becomes acid under the influence of the heat. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Viewed from the peak, the lakes sparkle like opaline gems in the sun. Birds of the Rockies But yours are paler than most of them, more opaline. The Silver Butterfly A table in the centre exhibited curiosities of the rarest description: the shell of a Cauchoise cap, two argil urns, medals, and a phial124 of opaline glass. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life "See how clear the Euganean hills are," Pauline said, looking out through the little window to those deep-blue pyramids, rising beyond the wide, opaline waters. A Venetian June The sky was cloudless and the contours of the lovely island were bathed in opaline light. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer At an early date the Venetians had perfected an art in which there is scarcely any intellectual content whatever, and in which colour, jewel-like or opaline, is almost everything. The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance Third Edition Between the ledge and the water were formed huge irregular pillars and buttresses of opaline ice whose semi-transparency seemed to indicate the presence of a cave beneath. Adrift in the Ice-Fields Later, in his bedroom, shut in, and safe and independent, with the new blind drawn, and the gas fizzing in its opaline globe, he tried to read “Don Juan.” Clayhanger The Colonel, sitting opposite to her in the straight-backed chair such as he always chose, noted, with a curiously disengaged pleasure, the wonderful opaline quality of the impression she made. A Venetian June Yet its eyes shone opaline and brilliant as it sat, so that I could hardly gaze without a shiver of surprise akin to fear, fascinated as though I looked upon a thing unreal. The Singing Mouse Stories Not twenty worlds a minute would keep up our bonfire of the sun; and what banners of our fancy could eclipse the meteor pennants of the pole, or the opaline splendors of the everlasting ice? Memories and Studies The shadow of the coming night had fallen on the autumnal foliage in the deep valley; in the place of the opaline haze was only a gray mist. The Young Mountaineers Short Stories Down, slanting far down through the opaline opaqueness, he saw the huge trunk extend itself, to an immemorial root-hold in the clayey, perpendicular walls of the Perdu. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories Papa blew his soap bubles and filled them with tobacco smoke and as the light shone on then they took very beautiful opaline colors. Chapters from My Autobiography Like the guards he wore supple armor, but this had been colored or overlaid with a pearly hue in which other tints wove opaline lines. Key Out of Time Under the rain of rose and gold, as if seen through opaline gauze, shone sea and hills and distant mountains. The Guests Of Hercules The sun was going down, leaving a great glory of gold and crimson clouds and an opaline haze upon the purple mountains. The Young Mountaineers Short Stories There was a faint, opaline haze in the afternoon air, and in the still waters of the harbor the low hills, with their foliage lightly touched in bronze and amethyst and amber, were faithfully reproduced. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories The pavement was opaline, too, with a thousand elusive tints and jewelled colours, waving like the sea. My Friend the Chauffeur It should send out air-bubbles when poured from one vessel into another; it should boil pulse soft, and form with soap an uniform opaline fluid, which does not separate after standing for several hours. A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy Twice more they found similar evidence of preservation in flower or leaf, wherever it was covered by the opaline water. The Gifts of Asti A creature of instinct, his colors are all opaline and dove's-neck-lustre and can only be seen at a distance. The Last Harvest Yet beyond the bar opaline tints were playing along the sunlit sea, and the luminous, shifting-hued swell of crested waves merged into the iridescent sky. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Away on a remote horizon—remote as all trouble and worry seemed, in this fair spot—hovered islands, opaline and shimmering, like a mirage. My Friend the Chauffeur But as I stared up into the depths of that intense opaline light, so clear, so pure, I realized how air, just air and nothing else, could leave a scatter-brained lady like me half-seas over. The Prairie Wife One night, the female being in the dining-room, on the table, facing the open window, a petroleum lamp, furnished with a large reflector in opaline glass, was hanging from the ceiling. Social Life in the Insect World Far away over the shore-lands the narrow strip of the Forth showed amethystine and mysterious, and farther out still the coast of Fife lay in a sort of opaline haze. The Black Douglas They are drinking wine, vermouth, and greenish opaline draughts of absinthe. Fifth Avenue This glitter, this opaline luster plays round the top of every toy to his eye, to insure his fidelity, and he is deceived to his good. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson It was a glorious afternoon, one of those opaline, blue-arched autumn days when it should have been a joy merely to be alive. The Prairie Wife There were deeper shadows in the hollows but the sky behind the wooded ridge to the east was softly opaline. Diane of the Green Van As Ootah and Koolotah dashed forward, great spaces of clear ice palpitated on all sides of them with interior opaline fires. The Eternal Maiden Those who read this may see the unspeakable beauty of the opaline and ruby tints that flame on the water when the sunset sinks behind the Isle of Thanet. Side Lights With a larger addition, the glass is, in the hot state, of a deep orange color, which changes to yellow and finally becomes opaline in process of cooling. 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 I seemed to be floating in a great opaline sea of pure, fresh air; for such dust as we raised was beaten down from the tonneau by the screen, and it did not trouble us. The Princess Passes The Boy was struck by a note that was almost horror in the opaline voice so near him. One Day A sequel to 'Three Weeks' At a small table immediately beneath a dome of glass, through whose softly opaline texture an aureole of light seemed to embrace them, sat Franklin, Galileo and Newton. The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars The granite sand, too, often dotted with smooth-washed jaspers and garnets and opaline quartz, is especially bright and spotless. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter With a still larger addition of oxide it becomes opaline yellow on cooling. 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 great lake-scape is blue and green and grey and opaline as the sun strikes it and the surface breaks to a south wind. The New North One was sunlit, yet opaline with the mists of morning; the other was scarcely a peak, but merely a high and grassy plain upon which the afternoon shadows lay long. A Spinner in the Sun From my feet to the heart of the hills The spirits of May intervene, And a vapor of azure distills Like a breath on the opaline green. Lyrics of Earth Slowly she rose through a sky freckled with wavelets of cloud, and as she crept up amongst them she brought them all out, in bluish, pearly, and opaline gray. Paul Faber, Surgeon Dissolves easily and when in some quantity gives an opaline bead. 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 I have seen a valley canopied by a sky of blue and opaline, girt in by wooded heights, on which the sun poured down in mid-day splendor. The Italians The opaline mists are gone, and he sees with dreadful clearness the path which lies immediately ahead. A Spinner in the Sun Sometimes, in the splendor of the dying light, we seem sporting upon transparent gold, so prismatic becomes the ice; and the snow takes opaline hues from the gems that float above as clouds. Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" Now, the sea was ablaze with opaline light, and the yards and sails were painted in faint tints of blue on a background of ebony. Tent Life in Siberia Numerous species resemble pearly or opaline cups or vases, fringed round the margin with delicate fibres, that are in constant oscillation. The Illustrated London Reading Book There was a faint opaline dawn of color in her face. The Three Sisters Instead it showed opaline hues and tints of topaz and amethyst. Through the Brazilian Wilderness Near the surface floated the medusae, living parasols of an opaline whiteness with circular borders of lilac or red bronze. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Within the mistiness was a core, a nucleus of intenser light—veined, opaline, effulgent, intensely alive. The Moon Pool Then the fear of the Abyss, the vast and voiceless Nightmare of the Sea, will come upon you; the silent panic of all those opaline millions that flee glimmering by will enter into you also... Chita: a Memory of Last Island The little picture has all the opaline atmosphere of a Claude Lorraine. Ponkapog Papers She saw the palms as a jungle, the pink-shaded electric globes as an opaline haze, and the eye-glassed faculty as Olympians. Main Street The liquid was of an opaline hue, and bore a label with an inscription in Italian. The Woodlanders Radiant highways whose vistas gleam, Leading me on, under crimson leaves, To the opaline gates of the Castles of Dream. A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass It sometimes happens that horizontal deposits, or strata usually opaline in character, are formed on the floor of a cavity after the walls have been lined with successive layers of chalcedony. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 When the young housemaid who had temporarily replaced Weston as Delia's maid drew back her curtains at half-past seven, Delia caught a vision of an opaline sky with a sinking moon and fading stars. Delia Blanchflower A vision rather than reality, structure of pearly clouds in mid-heaven, seems that opaline pile lightly touched with gold. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" The moon had emerged from a rippled sea of grey cloud, over which she cast her dull opaline halo. Wilfrid Cumbermede Beyond in a northerly direction the vast grandiose outline of Mont Ventoux shows an opaline hue, its deep violet tints being subdued in the paling afternoon light. The Roof of France The other, or the leonine blonde, has an opaline fire in her clear eye, which the brunette can hardly match with her quick, glittering glances. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 He communicated with Ala, and in a few minutes we were speeding, at a high elevation, toward the land of the opaline dome. A Columbus of Space The sun shone in on the left through the high windows, imparting to the vapor opaline tints—the palest rose and tender blue, fading into soft grays. L'Assommoir Above a hedge of shrubs shone a star in the middle of the horizon's pale band, and against this opaline glow stood out the intertwined branches of the trees, which were still without leaves. The Quest Their trailing flowery dresses, Their fine beflowered coats, Their elegance and lightness, And shadows blue,—all floats And mingles,—circling, wreathing, In moonlight opaline, While through the zephyr's harping Tinkles the mandoline. Poems of Paul Verlaine Glow of the daybreak tender, Flushed with an opaline gleam, And passionate sunset-splendor— Ye both but embody a dream. Dreams and Days: Poems And see! they change their hues incarnadine To gold, and emerald, and opaline; Swift changing to a softened festucine Before the eye. Babylonian and Assyrian Literature The hills were seen in vapory visions, shifting their hues with opaline glances; and over the green, billowy surface of the broad Campagna was settling a prismatic robe of mist, changing from rose to violet. A Romance of the Republic On the top of the mountain, in ordinary years a sure sign of a coming storm, floated a veil of opaline sea mist ... Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch Literally and carefully I speak of the light of pearls, with the opaline changes. Memories of Hawthorne Some of the stalls were piled up with wonderful fish, crimson, green, rose, blue, opaline--fish that have spent their lives in coral groves under the warm, bright water. The Hawaiian Archipelago His range was broad, from this really heroic fresco to the little trumpeting seraphs, in their opaline robes, enamelled, as it were, on the gold margins of his pictures. Italian Hours But the white was not so opaline; nor was there, what surprisingly increased the effect, that breathless crystal stillness over all. The Sea Fogs On her imperial heart the flames of hell showed only the opaline colours of heaven. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres A pale purple outline of waving hills lay on the silvery sea, which, as it grew later, became opaline in hue. Memories of Hawthorne But a damp warmth still clung to its rim, whereon the mineral had left a comely deposit of opaline texture. South Wind The jewel on her breast glowed with an angry red lustre, and shot forth dazzling opaline rays, as though it were a sort of living, breathing star. A Romance of Two Worlds One of them boldly perched on the window-sill; she glanced at the bird musingly, and softly stroked its opaline wings and shining head without terrifying it. Thelma His own lyric vein had an opaline intensity of fire, but in spite of its glow his verse sometimes refused to sing. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters Sometimes, in the splendor of the dying light, we seem sporting upon transparent gold, so prismatic becomes the ice; and the snow takes opaline hues, from the gems that float above as clouds. Memories of Hawthorne For about half-an-hour before the sun actually appeared, the perfectly smooth water was one mass of gently heaving opaline lustre. Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Edited by his friend Reuben Shapcott The other, or the leonine blonde, has an opaline fire in her clear eye, which the brunette can hardly match with her quick glittering glances. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works This glitter, this opaline lustre plays round the top of every toy to his eye to insure his fidelity, and he is deceived to his good. Essays — Second Series Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Essays — First Series It was some time before his eyes were greeted with the vague opaline brightness of the firmament which meant the vanishing of the pallid snow-line before the coming day. The Three Partners Here and there, opaline hues of infinite subtlety raced among sparks of light that were like so many fiery diamonds, their brilliance more than any eye could stand. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea The mysterious light had taken an opaline color. The Crusade of the Excelsior The water is not then deep blue, but pale, with opaline reflections. Oldport Days In conversation La Farge's mind was opaline with infinite shades and refractions of light, and with color toned down to the finest gradations. The Education of Henry Adams Now he could discern hills rising in a gilded opaline light. Where the Blue Begins |
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