| 单词 | pellucid |
| 例句 | Her lashes, he recalled, were golden red, her eyes pellucid blue. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He has done this in a breezy, pellucid manner, with a rare talent for explaining abstruse concepts — say, collateralized debt obligations — so that even I can understand them. Michael Lewis Wonders Who’s Really Running the Government 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Sian's prose was as pellucid and accurate as ever. Peston transcribed wife's final book 2013-04-30T09:31:12Z It is little surprise, then, that the pellucid perfume trend is now back, but with a youthful twist. The New Softies 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Two pellucid works by the Precisionist Sheeler showing room interiors furnished with antique chairs, tables and rugs are presented alongside a chair and a table similar to those in the paintings. A Confusing Look at Folk Art and American Modernism 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Its rhythmic precision and pellucid sound was the perfect frame for the intricate tapestry of Bach’s counterpoint. Choral Arts Society performs Bach’s Mass in B Minor at Kennedy Center Possessing a strikingly pellucid tone, Fort was at her most arresting on her longest pieces, the power ballad "Minnesota," the quicksilver soundscape "Some" and particularly the picaresque "Something 'Bout Camels." Portland Jazz fest wraps Friday-Sunday with Regina Carter and others 2011-02-24T21:50:14Z This makes Meghan O’Rourke’s pellucid “The Invisible Kingdom” — a profound, sometimes lyrical, deeply moving portrayal of a vague constellation of illnesses — all the more remarkable. How a Mystery Illness Cost One Writer a Decade of Health 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Caribou Island is a scant 300 pages, and written in prose as pellucid as the rivers he used to fish as a boy. David Vann: 'I was filled with rage.' 2011-01-02T00:02:02Z Anne Collier approaches these matters in a cool, classical, subtly witty way in large, pellucid staged photographs. Art Review: ‘New Photography 2012,’ at Museum of Modern Art 2012-11-29T20:43:18Z I came for the water - the pellucid Mediterranean, alternating between shades of blue and green. T Magazine: Turkish Delight 2012-07-12T21:02:17Z If you are missing cocktail bars, New York City before the shutdown or simply pellucid and startlingly intelligent poetry, “Three Poems” is a book for you. In ‘Three Poems,’ Hannah Sullivan Writes Beautifully and Covers a Lot of Ground 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Any disappointment in missing Stravinsky’s pellucid orchestral writing was mitigated by the sparkle of the pianists, Pedja Muzijevic and Steven Beck, and in the brilliant singing of the choir and the Trinity Youth Chorus. Music Review: The Trinity Choir’s Stravinsky Festival 2013-04-30T20:03:18Z One of the week's big openings was in Stratford-upon-Avon, a major revival of Brecht's Life of Galileo that Michael Billington called "a timeless debate about scientific morality rendered with … pellucid swiftness". Reader reviews: your take on Sarah Silverman, Bull, and A Life of Galileo 2013-02-15T17:25:10Z Ms. Dinnerstein’s pellucid sound and the jellyfish wobble of the theremin appeared light years apart. Music Review: ‘The Story of Babar the Elephant’ at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-11-21T22:50:07Z The reverent crowd pulled the trio back for two encores — a pellucid "When I Fall in Love" and "God Bless the Child," bathed in warmth. Review: A restrained Keith Jarrett lets the energy rise gradually 2011-11-02T20:09:04Z All have modern touches — notably broad, pellucid glass panes through which to gaze upon the ski hill — but also feature generous doses of exposed stone and beams, some dating to the original construction. Five lodges make Utah’s Alta Resort a winning ski destination 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The second half of her program opened with Daniel Strong Godfrey’s pellucid, unhurried “Night Walk”: Impressionism with an American accent. Music Review: Hues of Debussy in a Program Without Him 2011-01-06T22:09:12Z It contains prose and verse; polemic and introspection; remixed pop lyrics and pellucid memoir; straightforward narration and constellated word games. An Arab-American Poet Asks What It Means to Belong to Two Cultures, or None 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z But the real joy lies in seeing Brecht's timeless debate about scientific morality rendered with such pellucid swiftness. A Life of Galileo – review 2013-02-13T16:52:00Z Either way, “2 & 3 Part Inventions,” performed on Friday night in an all-Robbins program at New York City Ballet, is at once pellucid and pragmatic, sweet yet somehow sturdy. Dance Review: At New York City Ballet, a Fresh Look for Robbins 2010-05-09T22:30:00Z His touch, as always, was pellucid as he began with a reflective, exploratory, chromatically ambiguous piece. Music Review: After Hints Of Genius, A Muse Is Expelled 2011-01-17T22:30:26Z They moved on to the show’s penultimate scene, a tender, halting exchange between Pierre and the heartbroken Natasha who, on Broadway, is played by the pellucid soprano Denée Benton. The Musical Eccentric Who Turned Tolstoy’s Pierre Into Every Seeker 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z “If you are missing cocktail bars, New York City before the shutdown or simply pellucid and startlingly intelligent poetry, ‘Three Poems’ is a book for you,” our critic Dwight Garner writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z A reviewer in The Guardian called it “an eloquent, pellucid, sometimes poignant study of five female intellectuals, each of whom disdained convention to fulfill their potential as thinkers and writers.” Prose that spans the globe, a prescient novel about a plague and more: 6 new paperbacks 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Developing the lo-fi blues of his early work and pre-empting Sea Change’s pellucid studies of a wrecked relationship, Beck’s wallowing is given an almost mystical edge by Indian drones and sitar tolling underneath it. Beck's greatest songs – ranked! 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z But even on Capri I could not devote myself exclusively to the enjoyment of the pellucid blue waters, the fresh seafood and the icy limoncello. Opinion | The perfect vacation requires the right book 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Gass was one of the great prose stylists, and the writing here is typically smooth and pellucid, conjuring its effects by stealth and unflagging control. Bite-sized: 50 great short stories, chosen by Hilary Mantel, George Saunders and more 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z To reach the restoration site where this crew is working, Silver traversed a realm of perfection: cool, pellucid pools and side channels of Elk Creek, a tributary of the Hoh. Battling Scotch broom along Olympic’s Hoh River that threatens fish, forests 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z When the Supreme Court announces a decision in a white-collar case, its statements about the law are not necessarily pellucid descriptions of what is permissible. Appeals Court Wrestles With When an Error Requires a New Trial 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Waikiki is renowned for its pellucid water, high rises and luxury storefronts. As Waikiki moves homeless out of tourist zones, some fear perpetual displacement 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z You move from one pellucid space to another by dint of simple start-stop controls, undulating faster by timing button taps for boosts. 'Abzu' Could Be the Most Beautiful Game You'll Play All Year 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z His unadorned, pellucid prose may be the reason for Ken Liu’s swift rise to prominence in speculative fiction. ‘The Paper Menagerie’: new fantastic fiction by Ken Liu 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z A shrewd showman, Turner père first leads visitors to a candlelit anteroom, to enhance the drama and visual effect when the doors open upon shimmering, pellucid seascapes that invariably draw gasps of wonder. ‘Mr. Turner’ movie review: Timothy Spall paints a masterpiece as J.M.W. Turner 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z It captures the era and The Eagles with pellucid accuracy. A Special Documentary: "The History Of The Eagles" 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z In Winter this far South, draped by air as pellucid and crisp as any in the world, the stars overhead are of the original Earth, chilled and sprawling. Nigel Brown: A New Zealand Original 2013-04-10T20:30:38Z At first, in the Smaug battle, I thought I was watching a video game: pellucid pictures of indistinct creatures. The Hobbit: A Lot of Trudging 2012-12-05T14:35:00Z Now it was on that delightful, that glossy and pellucid river that Shôn Gwyllt plied his trade, and the sylvan groves on its banks resounded with the sound of his rich tenor voice. The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales 2012-04-27T02:00:33.040Z Fronds very thin and pellucid, often consisting of a single layer of cells. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z At places the smooth sides of the Gorge leave no space except for the passage of the pellucid stream, and we have to wade hip deep to make our way. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z Like some of our own pellucid waters, it is a Naiad of the purest kind, sleeping on coral and crystal couches. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z Quickly he knelt upon the grass, and bent over the pellucid waters to take a draught; but he suddenly paused, surprised. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z Thinking he meant us to move on, I was walking forward, when he drew me back just in time to prevent my stepping into a lake so clear and pellucid as to be absolutely imperceptible. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z Embryo cylindrical.—Plants with a resinous juice, dotted with pellucid or dark glands, usually smooth. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z We left the carriage at the "pellucid lake," and went into the hills a mile, plucking the ripe grapes which hung over the road in profusion. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z "By this time Felicia, 'delicately treading the clear pellucid air,' is going through the Porta Romana," she suggested. Dorothy and other Italian Stories 2012-03-18T02:00:18.513Z Even Newman, master of the pellucid, effortless phrase, confesses to laborious days of correction, and he wrote with the idea uppermost and with no thought of style, so-called. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z With all her white sails set and her flags still flying, the Petrel went slowly down, with a gentle, oscillating movement, into the depths of that marvellously pellucid sea. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z The air was of that pellucid transparency which is the sure prelude of rain. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z The thought is not quite the same as that intended to be conveyed by such a phrase as 'silver stream of Thames,' but pictures the bright, pellucid, silvery whiteness of a clear mountain rill. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:22.977Z The speech was not precisely pellucid, but she followed his eyes to the hand and understood. The Azure Rose A Novel 2011-12-31T03:00:18.657Z Here in this bay, even half a mile from the shore, you can see the bottom distinct and clear, for the water is as pellucid as crystal, and there isn’t a ripple on the sea. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z How the poor beasts drank of that cool, pellucid flood, and how we human beings drank, too! From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z She was tall and dark and splendid, with large brown eyes flecked with a lighter shade as though they held imprisoned sunbeams in their pellucid depths. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z I remember huge vases, cups as thin as egg-shell, pellucid crystals in all shapes, a glory of hard materials and tender colors. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z The second class comprises hard stones, either pellucid or ornamental, with very beautiful and varied colours which sparkle marvellously; they are called gems. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z Its roof was a slab of pellucid marble, so that when the lord of Ghumdán lay on his couch he saw the birds fly overhead, and could distinguish a raven from a kite. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z Laskowicz gazed into the depths of the pellucid pupils of her eyes, as if he wished to penetrate them to the bottom, and being really moved, replied with emphasis: "I will not forget." Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z Everything around them was peaceful and still, the water clear and pellucid, and unbroken by a single ripple. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z At this time his work was gray, but not always pellucid or silvery. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z They were somewhere down by the river, unseen, but all the sound there was, their voices long, keen and distracting flaws in the pellucid and coloured dayfall. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Her dark eyebrows were very finely drawn above her large, dark-grey, pellucid eyes, but they were drawn with a peculiar obstinate and irritating lift. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z With the consummate capacity for pellucid statement, which was one of Franklin's most remarkable gifts, it narrated the manner in which the practice of buying legislation from the Proprietaries had been pursued. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z Set a page of one of Addison's little apologues beside a page of one of Hawthorne's tales, and note how much more pellucid Hawthorne's style is, how much more beautiful, how much more distinguished. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z As clear fountains send forth pellucid streams, so do clear truths give accurate sciences. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z Transparent, or pellucid bodies, are frequently called mediums, because they allow the rays of light to pass through them; and the rays which pass through, are said to be transmitted by them. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z Beautiful the thin line of her nut-brown eyebrows, the dark lashes of the silent, pellucid dark eyes. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z The moon, that had become again obscured, once more burst through the black clouds, lighting up the fronds of the feathery palms that flung their shadows far over the pellucid waves. The White Squaw 2011-07-05T02:00:26.437Z The larger creature's pellucid body ripples as amusement causes the jelly-like flesh to shake. Silent evolution 2011-06-15T17:20:55.003Z The morning was as pellucid as a dew-drop and the dunes looked preternaturally clear and distinct, the hollows being filled with amber-tinted shadow. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z The violet vapours of the dawn rose from the silent streets and disappeared in the pellucid air. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z She caught a word here and there: pellucid, he was saying something was, translucent. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z We saw many translucent streams, whose pellucid waters were charming to behold. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:15.900Z Plunging in pellucid water not waist-deep—their lower extremities only concealed by the saturated skirts that clung like cerements around them—their feet showing clear as coral—the two young creatures continued to disport themselves. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z The finest diamonds are colourless, perfectly clear, and pellucid. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z In consequence of its low refractive and dispersive power, colourless pellucid fluor-spar is valuable in the construction of apochromatic lenses, but this variety is rare. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z But green no more; save those of the yew, holly, and frost-defying bramble, with the mistletoe and its pearl-like pellucid berries. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z Half of its surface lay in shadow; the other half was silvered by the moonbeams, that, penetrating the pellucid water, rendered visible the white shells and shining pebbles at the bottom. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z Natures like his foster craft in the most pellucid candour. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z The darkening sky was a labyrinth of purple and crimson scarves drawn pellucid, as though by the finger of God, across a sheet of pure saffron. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z In a moist environment pellucid drops or "tears" distil from its lower surface: Hence its name. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z When he had been a boy she had thought his very soul pellucid; it had clouded opaquely against her scrutiny as he passed into adolescence. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Beyond, appeared the gigantic lizard; his whole body, arms, hands, and claws clearly traceable in the pellucid water, above the surface of which rose the scaly serrature of his back and shoulders. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z The sun shining through a bunch of grapes made them seem pellucid globes of gold and amber and crimson among others darkly purple in the shadow. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z But the devouring profundities, now opened up in him, consume all his vigor; would he, he could not now be entertainingly and profitably shallow in some pellucid and merry romance. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z A pellucid membrane, proceeding from the inner corner of the eye, covers the ball while the bird is diving under water; which is remarkable. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z In early summer, whilst the leaves are still pellucid, the shade of a big Beech is particularly inviting. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z What exists seems to them an absurd jumble of irrational accidents and bad habits, and they want the future to be based on reason and to be the pellucid embodiment of all their maxims. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z Innumerable little rills of pellucid water descended from it. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. Lord Bacon, being in York House garden, looking at some fishermen as they were throwing their nets in what was then the pellucid and silvery Thames, asked them what they would take for their catch. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources The water swarmed with innumerable small fishes, just spawned, so pellucid that they were rendered conspicuous chiefly by their large eyes. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z His higher part, escaping from the sutures of the head, emerged in pellucid ether. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius His labors were incessant, his industry untiring, his perseverance unyielding—his patriotism as clear as the crystal fountain—pure as the pellucid stream. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution A piece of meat not as big as an egg, floating in beef tea pellucid to a degree. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster "This is the shining drapery, the pall, This hoary sheet of clean pellucid light." Provocations This is also entirely pellucid like glass, except that the little heart-shaped marks are red, each with a transparent cavity in its centre. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z The soul of an old acquaintance then hailed him and became his guide, pointing out that the souls of the really dead cast no shadow, being perfectly pellucid, surrounded by light. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius In many places mangroves dropped into the pellucid water, their boughs laden with a strange kind of fruit, for they bore oysters that were good to eat. Donalblane of Darien It is one of the best specimens of self-portraiture in the language, reflecting with pellucid clearness both the life and character, the merits and defects, of its author. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 Nor is it material whether the Hair be encompassed with Air, or with any other pellucid Substance. Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light There was a depth of poetry about him, deep and clear, pellucid as a lake among grassy banks, which make all things of the world mean when compared to it. Ayala's Angel It pours forth in a pellucid flood of sound, and always produces the impression that there is more yet, amply more, to meet all the demands of the singer. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. Euripides described his countrymen as "forever delicately tripping through the pellucid air," and so their modern descendants trip to this day. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu P. exp. obtuse, slightly striate, tinged flesh colour then pale; g. pale rose colour; s. pellucid, white. European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae Next to the pellucid central Spot made by the contact of the Glasses succeeded blue, white, yellow, and red. Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light The juice is pellucid, red, and slightly acid. Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous Poisons the pellucid rills which should fertilize the soul of man! One Of Them It was low tide, and all those aboard the craft seemed to be staring down into the pellucid waters. When the Cock Crows Constitutionally vigorous and daily refreshed by draughts from the pellucid springs of the Pierides, they led a life of exuberant health, as the vital statistics of the neighbourhood would abundantly show. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 16, 1920 A Pseudo-Topazius, being a natural, pellucid, brittle, hairy Stone, of a yellow Colour. Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light After flying two or three hundred yards, the intense heat of the sun has dried its pellucid wings, and it is obliged to wet them in order to continue its flight. Wanderings in South America The fresh green blade of corn is like this—so pellucid, so clear and pure in its green as to seem to shine with colour. The Hills and the Vale Through the tract wandered a pellucid trout stream. When the Cock Crows The clouds are driving fast aloft in a carry from the sea—but they are all reflected in that pellucid pool—so perfect the cliff-guarded repose. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) This Crystal is a pellucid fissile Stone, clear as Water or Crystal of the Rock, and without Colour; enduring a red Heat without losing its transparency, and in a very strong Heat calcining without Fusion. Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light Making as little disturbance as possible, Drew sank to his armpits in the pellucid waters, and then began to swim. Doubloons—and the Girl Below their feet the stream ran, amber, pellucid, over a line of transformed pebbles. An Isle in the Water She came staggering out at last from a great thicket of ferns and found herself near a brawling mountain stream—one of those pellucid trout streams dear to the disciples of gentle Isaak Walton. Dainty's Cruel Rivals The Fatal Birthday Beautiful, pellucid thought, deep-flowing philosophies, knife-edged epigrams and measured verse lay to her hand, but they seemed unreal, somehow, and their music echoed like meaningless words shouted, for the echo merely, in empty halls. The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon And yet Light is transmitted through pellucid solid Bodies in right Lines to very great distances. Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light Each atom of water that comes in contact with its delicate gills involves its imprisoned air to freshen and invigorate the creature's pellucid blood. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 This sounds like a striking anticipation of Landor’s fine line, “Calm hair meandering in pellucid gold” in his poem “On Lucretia Borgia’s Hair.” Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature It is then pellucid, without any flavour, and nearly double the weight of an equal bulk of water. Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries Rather, I should say, it is the perfection of pellucid serenity. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Hammer had guessed the answer according to his own thick reasoning, and not very pellucid morals. The Bondboy All is direct, pellucid; poetic thoughts are presented in a convincingly beautiful manner. Music: An Art and a Language The dangerous glint in her pellucid hazel eyes was lost on Billy. Outside Inn The day was superb, the sky sparkled like a great blue sun; schools of young mangrove snappers swept through the pellucid water. Wild Oranges How magnificent a medium of vision is the pellucid sea! Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches A rocky pool received the foaming element, and fed a pellucid stream that soon disappeared amongst the trees, on its way to irrigate and fertilize the neighbouring fields. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 The first sight of Miss Temple is enough to reveal her dazzling complexion, her violet-tinted eyes, her lofty and pellucid brow, her dark and lustrous locks. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Everywhere the waters of the great stream were clear and pellucid. The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 The diminished wind swept in a clear diapason through the pellucid sky; the resplendent sea reached vast and magnetic to its invisible horizon. Wild Oranges He saw the happy swallow darting and wheeling to and fro through the pellucid azure, in pursuit of their insect prey. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 Under a magnifying glass the margin will be found to have pellucid crenulations. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination But Hyldreda staid and looked on until the stream settled into a clear, pellucid pool. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. Financially speaking, I’m as liquid as a pellucid pool in a primeval forest. Rope Stipe not very long, erect, tapering upward, bent at the apex, purplish-brown, the apex pale and pellucid, standing on a small hypothallus. The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio A simple earnest-minded youth, Who wore in both his eyes A calm pellucid lake of Truth— What should he know of lies? Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 9, 1914 He believes in making music as pellucid to the hearers as clear water. A Day with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy The landscape is treated with a pellucid delicacy and accuracy of truth which I have seen very rarely equaled in ancient windows. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 "Such an one remains like the broad earth unvexed; like the pillar of the city gate, unmoved; like a pellucid lake, unruffled." Memoranda Sacra Sporangia globose, stipitate, pale yellow, changing to clay-color; the wall thin and delicate, pellucid, minutely granulose, the upper part torn away and soon disappearing, the lower half more persistent. The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio The pileus is rather membranaceous, hemispherical, then plane or depressed, pellucid, wrinkled, naked, entirely white. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth In execution they are almost faultless; the narrative is easy, the style pellucid, and the writer's judgment nearly always in accordance with the general verdict of history. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History But his eyes were pellucid, strangely clear, his brown hair was soft and thick as silk, he had a slight moustache. The Rainbow Think of the surroundings here—innocent twittering birds, silent arboreous trees, clear pellucid streams, nothing to tempt, nothing to degrade.” The Tale of Timber Town Capillitium of slender threads, more or less branched and combined into a net; the threads dark colored, with pellucid extremities, and furnished with occasional rings or roundish swellings throughout their length. The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio The stem is slender, equal, pellucid, smooth, from one to two inches high. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth Lucid and pellucid refer to a shining clearness, as of crystal. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Later on he would see her bright, pellucid eyes, like shallow water, and know those. The Rainbow We have endeavored to lift up true Christianity to its proper plane and to remove as far as possible, the clouds of error that have long obscured its beautiful, pellucid light. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity Sporangia subglobose, more or less irregular, somewhat depressed, sessile, usually close or crowded, sometimes confluent; the hypothallus a thin membrane, pellucid or with occasional patches of lime granules, sometimes not apparent. The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio It was very pellucid and free from any striæ either of the straight or curved types. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public His power of phrasing runs the whole gamut from the most pellucid simplicity to the most triumphant originality. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Like the branches of a silver candelabrum, all united near its centre, and there formed a pellucid stream, that, sweeping onward, discharged itself through the ravine into Robideau’s Pass. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Upon the white velvet lining lay a pretty set of jewels—sapphires, rarely pellucid; then clear pendants sparkling like drops of deep sea-water frozen into coruscant solidity. Theo A Sprightly Love Story Capillitium of very slender, colored threads, the extremities pellucid, more or less branched. The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio Some of the dealers in this article have found their way to our lower deck, and proceed to pull little parcels, containing sparkling and pellucid gems from their inner garments. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 Those nude pellucid feet are fairer in their nakedness than the most delicate chaussure of silk and satin. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature That still continues to pour up its clear and pellucid waters with a ceaseless and eternal flow. Darius the Great Makers of History Cytidium ravenelii B. & C. Sporangium globose, stipitate; the wall a thin pellucid membrane, covered with small scales of lime, from gray or drab to pale umber in color, breaking up at maturity and falling away. The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio While Lafayette can never be included among the great orators of the world, he possessed a wonderfully pellucid and concise diction. Lafayette The style is pellucid and absolutely unaffected; the ideas are instinct with humanity and love of nature. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era In the two last the urine is pellucid, and contains no sugar. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life A pellucid style must always have been a source of wide, though modest, popularity for Bacchylides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Sporangium globose, the base sometimes flattened or slightly umbilicate, stipitate; the wall a thin, pellucid membrane, covered with small scales of lime, white, cream-colored, or sometimes pinkish, breaking up and falling away at maturity. The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio But the same bucolic mind which can see in the most graceful church tower in the kingdom “Boston Stump,” gives the name of “Sewer” to a stream pellucid enough to be a fount of Castaly. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter We lave our limbs in the pellucid waters of the lake or large body of water just referred to. Fibble, D.D. The latter, or miliaria inirritata, was attended with great arterial debility; and during the course of the fever pellucid points appeared within the skin, particularly on the soft parts of the fingers. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life The Crystal itself is a clear pellucid piece of quartz or beryl, sometimes oval in shape, but more generally spheroidal. How to Read the Crystal or, Crystal and Seer Sporangium globose, stipitate, erect or slightly nodding; the wall a thin, pellucid membrane, thickly covered with minute, white, roundish scales of lime, which are exceptionally sparse or absent, rupturing irregularly. The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio Here and there a rock, a copper beech, a silver larch, or a few flowering shrubs cast strong shadows on the dark, pellucid mirror beneath. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley I was inclined to doubt this, for the sun was still shining, there was no trace of a breeze, and the sky straight over my head was a pellucid pale azure. The Prairie Mother The children of such people are apt to be peevishly receptive, but their moods are often cloudy, and I wished for a pellucid nature. Tongues of Conscience He did not add, however, that their effect, if slipped sparingly in amid his own pellucid construction and facile narrative method, would be very different from their habitual use in a translation. . . . The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography Sporangia laterally much compressed, flexuous, and gyrose, not everywhere grown together, but forming a dense reticulum; the walls a thin, pellucid membrane, with a dense layer of lemon-yellow granules of lime. The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio ‘And then, after describing the beauty of Eden, with its rills and pellucid brooks bubbling through the fresh meads, he goes on: ‘Are not pure springs And chrystal wells The very things For our Hotels?’ The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 At the western end, on the other hand, where it issues from the lake, the water is beautifully pellucid and clear. Rollo in Geneva Indeed, but for the carmine of her lips, and long dark eyelashes, she might have been chiselled out of pellucid stone, for her skin was dead white. War and the Weird Beyond lay the woods, half colored now with clear pellucid green, gleams of silver and shades of scarlet here and there. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Sporangia variously contracted and grown together, forming a dense reticulum; the walls a thin pellucid membrane, with a thick white outer layer of granules of lime. The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio Then where the stream that swiftly flowed A pure pellucid shallow showed, The funeral drops they duly shed, And “Father, this be thine,” they said. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse On the other side was the Rhone, blue, and pellucid, and beautiful as the sky above. Rollo in Geneva Its deep, cool shadows, and the pellucid water, which a wandering sunbeam accidentally revealed, were strikingly realistic. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch The inaja-palm, of various species, produces pellucid pods, from one to two feet in length, containing a row of beans—enveloped in white cottony pulp—grateful to the taste. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Wall of the sporangium a thin pellucid membrane, mostly even or somewhat rugulose and iridescent, coated by a very thin layer of white granules of lime. The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio Even in Greece there are certain words which have remained so pellucid as to prove unfit for mythological refraction. Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion It is a pure pellucid stream until joined by the Creedy, which imparts to it a reddish colour from the soil through which the latter flows. Exeter Perhaps there may be some among us here on this continent who, on beholding a finger-bowl for the first time, glanced down into its pellucid depths and wondered what had become of the gold fish. Cobb's Bill-of-Fare Our fifty-four vacuous and pellucid flasks also declare against the heterogenist. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The wall a thin pellucid membrane, with a thin layer of minute granules of lime, which are sometimes raised into small scales and fine ridges. The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio The day reigns uncontrolled; The world, transparent; and pellucid The thrice-deep palaces. Life Immovable First Part The lines of the face were as soft as ever, the eyes as pellucid; but something was gone—something as indefinable as the changes in the morning twilight. Romola Then, clearing the outskirts of the town, the train roared southward across the fair, Italian landscape beneath the pellucid, blue vault of the fair, Italian sky. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The collected liquid is pellucid in the common light; but in the condensed electric beam it is seen to be laden with particles, so thick-strewn and minute as to produce a continuous luminous cone. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Sporangia sessile, subglobose or oblong, more or less irregular, gregarious; the wall a thin, pellucid membrane, covered with large, irregular, very thick, white scales of lime. The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio The soft hair had shining lights; and her eyes had a twilight look that suggested a pellucid lake, with evening shades blowing over it. A Little Girl of Long Ago Their shape, exquisitely proportioned, is as airy, slight, and pellucid as that of the wasp. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 This was in the late sixties, and he took trout fever on the pellucid Wandle, at that time a beautiful stream with good store of singularly handsome trout, and a regular company of gentlemen fly-fishers. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler For three months they have remained pellucid and sweet — flesh, fish, and vegetable extracts purer than ever cook manufactured. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 How different from the pellucid basin of the Great Geyser! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy They could have found water in the road, for there was a pellucid spring only a few yards distant from the house, as they were well aware—but they wanted not water. Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 2 (of 2) These wells were filled with water, and with a blue light, celestial in its loveliness,—a light ethereal and pellucid. Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska How sweetly, evenly, the harmony flows on,--a broad, rich, deep, pellucid river, swollen as by countless rills from all the loving, bleeding, and believing hearts in a redeemed humanity! The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers Every one of them became subsequently crowded with organisms, and the same happened to a perfectly pellucid mutton infusion prepared at the same time. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Fenestra: a window; a transparent glassy spot or mark; a pellucid mark in a vein: a small, pale, membranous area at the base of the antenna in roaches. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology Soon they were all joyously stamping and dancing in what had so lately been a pellucid pool. A Book of Myths On Thames's bosom, crystal-clear, Glad urchins bob about like bladders; The fly is cast from Wapping pier, And over the Pool's pellucid weir Salmon go leaping up their ladders. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914 Rising and falling like a gnat, thrilling her gauzy wings, and arching her elegant pellucid frame, every now and then she almost dipped her three long tapering whisks into the dimples of the water. Crocker's Hole From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore A soft hue or a pellucid note may be an intrinsic pleasure, though a formless one, and one expressive of no meaning at all. Human Traits and their Social Significance His works are a casket of such stage jewels of expression as ‘Palladian structure,’ ‘Tusculan repose,’ ‘Gothic pile,’ ‘pellucid brow,’ ‘mossy cell,’ and ‘dew-bespangled meads.’ Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation So, in a secret vale upon the banks Of a pellucid stream, Beneath the shadow of an oak, A tender lily bloometh, nature's love. Athaliah A Tragedy, Intended For Reading Only, Translated Into English Blank Verse, From Racine (A. Gombert's Edition, 1825) As clear, luminous, and pellucid as is everything that comes from the pen of the great Manchester preacher. The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms "Is a rattle-snake accountable?" asked the stranger with such a preternaturally cold, gemmy glance out of his pellucid blue eye, that he seemed more a metaphysical merman than a feeling man; "is a rattle-snake accountable?" The Confidence-Man The waters of the lake were strikingly clear and pellucid. Silver Lake All that remains of thee these plaits unfold, Calm hair, meandering in pellucid gold. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection The Chinese lanterns are made of netted thread, smeared over with the gum produced by boiling down this same plant, which, when dry, forms a firm pellucid and elastic substitute for horn. Mark Seaworth The drawing-room and dining-room had both spacious bay-windows, opening on to the lawn that sloped very gradually down to the pellucid lake, and there was mirrored. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 So pellucid was the water that their little feet were distinctly visible at the bottom, shining like gold. The Rifle Rangers A tiny runlet as they last looked upon it—a mere brook, pellucid and sparkling as the sand on its bed. The Lone Ranche Thucydides, twice or thrice, inserts a few sentences of Pericles: but Thucydides is an emanation of Pericles, somewhat less clear indeed, being lower, although at no great distance from that purest and most pellucid source. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection When the subaqueous cloud cleared away, and they again looked with peering eyes down into the pellucid depths, there was nothing there, neither dead body of man, nor living form of monster. The Castaways They printed pictures of him playin' the accordion, and interviews reproducin' his descriptive gems about "the banks of the pellucid Pinto," and such. Shorty McCabe on the Job It seemed like an old friend, because they had been accustomed to skating on its frozen surface, and bathing in its pellucid depths, year after year. The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain Moreover, the pellucid atmosphere of the Staked Plain makes objects visible at double the ordinary distance. The Lone Ranche Thy form so dear is mirrored here In my heart’s pellucid well, As the rose looks up to Phingari’s orb, Or the moth to the gay gazelle. The Bon Gaultier Ballads Fair pools where fish in forms pellucid play; Smooth lies the lawn, swift glide the hours away. Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Come with us, reader, if you will, over the prairies of Texas, gorgeous with their many-colored flowers, dotted with the dark-green live-oaks, and watered by pellucid rivers. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems He loved to go forth on the pellucid surface of "clear, placid Leman," there to drink in the soft beauties of the shores, or to gaze upon the distant sublimities of Mont Blanc. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Ah! a cloud courses over that pellucid brow. The Young Duke The young are dancing in their skiffs on the pellucid shallows near the source on the Sacred Mountains of the Golden East. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 From her position her hat had fallen back, revealing her lofty and pellucid brow, and the dark and lustrous locks that were braided over her temples. Henrietta Temple A Love Story They do not appear to have flowed in a clear and pellucid stream. Cape Cod Folks The morals of both life and poems are as limpid as the waters of pellucid Tahoe; and purest women may read from "Claribel" to "Crossing the Bar," and be only purer from the reading. A Hero and Some Other Folks The appearance of spheres diminished daily; they became smaller, clearer, and more pellucid, allowed objects to be seen more distinctly, and disappeared entirely after two weeks. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. It rolls its magnificent volume, clear and pellucid, in its course; but it never reaches the ocean; it sinks into mud and morass. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 In that pellucid air the sky was a vivid ultramarine. The Stowaway Girl Imagine a sea of pellucid water, and in the centre of it a spherical mass of denser and darker water. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry No sounds of the ponderous hammer, or screeching "buzzer," are to be heard within the range of their pellucid course. Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities Its reasoning is highly pellucid, and its dignity is past all question. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 The whole plant is sprinkled over with the white, pellucid meal, and contains much "trimethylamine," together with osmazome, and nitrate of potash; also it gives off free ammonia. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure Under the pellucid diction may lurk amazing depths. Platform Monologues Aërial Claude shall paint The gray fane peering o'er the summer woods, The azure lake below, or distant seas, And sails, in the pellucid atmosphere, Soft gleaming to the morn. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan Lakes of crystal clearness reflected the fleecy clouds, and the snowy forms of the swans upon their azure surface; and gold and silver fishes chased each other through their pellucid waves. Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside Every stone within view dances and shakes like a heliograph; you can see—yes, actually see—the heat flow breast high across the desert swift as this stream here, only pellucid. The Four Feathers Free from cant and rant—clear cut as a cameo, pellucid as a mountain brook. Shadows of the Stage A slight frothy flake arose as the wind blew along the pellucid waters; and many a dash of spray was blown into my face. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth I was fortunate enough to find one piece, or, rather, a small bunch of pellucid drops, of a bright amber-colour. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government The latter yields a white seed-pearl, and here, perhaps, we might attempt to develope it into That great round glory of pellucid stuff, A fish secreted round a grain of grit. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Turn to the style of the passage—it is perfectly pellucid in meaning, rings on the ear like the crack of a rifle, is sonorous, rich, and swift. Studies in Early Victorian Literature In the evening this was a favorite resort of many birds that came to drink at the pellucid stream, or catch insects playing above the water. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Similarly we are told that Browning is only felt to be obscure because he is too pellucid. Among Famous Books Looking down from above, I saw the green reflection of the foliage penetrating the pellucid water till it met the other heaven reflected below. Round About the Carpathians I have that hornbook still, ——"Covered with pellucid horn, To save from fingers wet the letters fair." Dead Man's Rock No one denies originality and power in many of these pieces: but they are flat blasphemy against the pellucid melody of the Tennysonian idyll. Studies in Early Victorian Literature A stillness and a pellucid clearness that were full of remote romance were making the vast desert their sacred possession. Bella Donna A Novel There were no moving things on the earth, no bird soared in the pellucid air, not even a moving cloud on the sky. Romance The water of this sulphur spring is remarkably pellucid. Saratoga and How to See It They are full of wit; but the wit never chokes the style, which is simple and pellucid. Adventures in Criticism How few out of many millions have studied that subtle mechanism of ear and thought which created the melodious ripple of these fluent and pellucid words. Studies in Early Victorian Literature And so he rested on deck, while the sun climbed the pellucid sky, and he watched the men at the shadûf. Bella Donna A Novel The crystal drops, That trickle down the branches, fast congealed, Shoot into pillars of pellucid length, And prop the pile they but adorned before. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 427 Volume 17, New Series, March 6, 1852 But even the mere reason itself, as a reason, has not once risen in your benign and pellucid mind. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" "I feel bound to admire its broad face, but miss the swift current and pellucid waters of the poetasters, to whose bounties the river god owes much of his fame." The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters Lydia's gaze was still the round, pellucid gaze of her childhood. Lydia of the Pines The sea being pellucid, the sun's rays penetrate it to a considerable depth. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 The baptismal water, taken from that pellucid pool, was lying, consecrated, in an appropriate receptacle, formed by the upright stones that composed one side of the pulpit, and the holy rite proceeded. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader You have a pellucid mind, Emily; I should be rather proud of the word if I had invented it myself to describe you. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" The blondness of her—ashen-dead fairness of hair and pale skin with those pellucid eyes beneath dust-brown brows—all united in an effort of innocence that surpassed itself and became the blandness of a doll. Secret Bread The first week in April the ice went out of the lake with a crash and boom and mighty upheaval, leaving a pellucid calm of blue waters that brought a new light to Lydia's face. Lydia of the Pines The clear heavens, blue and pellucid as a sapphire, were still cool, but from the lower slope down the east a radiance began to crawl upward. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt That it is an opaque and solid Body, is visible by the Eclipses of the Sun; for a pellucid Body could not deprive us of the Light of that glorious Planet. A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country The Jordan flows into its upper end turbid and muddy, and issues forth at its southern extremity clear and pellucid. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. The only sign of moisture in his whole body was a pellucid drop that I occasionally noticed on the end of a long, dry nose. Washington Irving On the contrary, nothing so facile, pellucid, pleasant to read had appeared in modern literature—a poetic lubberland, a "clear, unwrinkled song." A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century The sapphire was backed with sardonyx, and the bluish white of the chalcedony was half pellucid to the gold chrysolite behind it. Among the Forces The beauty of them, the pellucid clearness and stillness of early evening, stirred no answering echo within him. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India As titanic acid will not act in the same manner as silica, it can be easily distinguished by its bead not being perfectly pellucid. 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 Next, if they be Globular, and mov'd only with a turbinated motion, I know not any cause that can impress that motion upon the pellucid medium, which yet is done. Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Self-deception is a plant which withers fast in the pellucid atmosphere of dream investigation. Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Two sacks full of the leaves yield scarcely three drachms of the oil, which is limpid, pellucid, and of a green color. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. One beautiful Chara, which might disclose the secret, had I good glasses, it is a most graceful pellucid form, an undescribed duckweed, a floating Marchantiaceæ. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries She was enveloped in a cloud, a thick case guarding overtaxed mind and body, and shutting them in its pellucid chrysalis. Lazarre Next we learn, that the great reason why pellucid bodies beaten small are white, is from the multitude of reflections, not from the particles of the body, but from the contiguous surface of the air. Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon And then from the deep bottom, as from a cup Of blessing, there ever will come welling up The living waters of a pellucid soul, A gush of the spirit, from a heart made whole. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The dusky white covering resembles a fine white net, and within it is a pellucid gelatinous substance. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. One mass of twenty and one-half pounds was absolutely pellucid, and more or less of the material was used for art purposes. Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 Dr. Temple has a notable gift of rapid statement and pellucid exposition. Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality In the clear atmosphere the on-lookers could see black fins cutting the pellucid sea. The Wings of the Morning Far ahead gleamed the pellucid waters of the Columbia, or Oregon. The Log School-House on the Columbia There are a few minerals very plentiful, resembling brass, and it is a common sight to see polished buildings fantastic in their arrangement, shining through the pellucid water like gold. Life in a Thousand Worlds "But"—she raised calm pellucid eyes—"wouldn't you like to die?" My Friend Prospero Stones and trees were covered with pellucid dew-drops, and, for all we know, this general grief may have been the occasion of some of the deluges reported by geology. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology Overcome by the girl's frail sweetness, by the pellucid gaiety of her grey eyes, he surrendered; and his name and fortune fluttered into her lap, helplessly as a blown leaf. Muslin Remembering how the brook had decreased in size, and was now running clear and pellucid, he feared that the bag of stones Roland had so dramatically flung into it might be plainly visible. The Sword Maker The 1845 fragment falls, of course, far short of its sequel in imaginative audacity and splendour, but it is steeped in a pellucid beauty which Browning's busy intellectuality was too prone to dissipate. Robert Browning Captivated by the graces of Mr. Max Müller’s manner, and by a style so pellucid that it accredited a logic perhaps not so clear, the public hardly knew of the divisions in the philological camp. Modern Mythology “I don’t care if we are caught!” she murmured low, looking for the future through the pellucid tumbler. The Lion's Share Only here and there a lonely convent with a few black cypress spires clustered round it, or a solitary cross which the peasants choose as their midday resting-place, cuts the pellucid sky. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 From his height he glanced down into the broad, pellucid pool, into whose depths the water fell, and there, perfectly visible, lay the bag of bogus treasure. The Sword Maker Shading their young pellucid eyes, their bare polished brows, were large Leghorn hats covered with expensive feathers or flowers. The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories Again, before putting on her magic dresses she bathes in a pellucid pool. More English Fairy Tales Heine's prose, delicate in its pellucid brightness as any of his poetry, cannot be held too precious by the interpreter. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 In a smooth iron mould a lens of pellucid ice has been formed. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 Yet behind that moral wreckage there remained the far-off source of spiritual illumination, the inner soul that judged him, as it judged all things, holding the pellucid immaterial view. The Divine Fire Here, in an atmosphere as pellucid as water, Dante perceives thousands of angels, coming toward him, singing "Lo! one arrived to multiply our loves!" The Book of the Epic When almost there they emerged into a flood of pale sunlight, and looking down through the pellucid water they could see the sloping sides of the basin converging like the sides of a bowl. The Adventure Club Afloat A lakelet, cool, pellucid and serene, Fed by the drippings from eternal snows, Lies like a mirror 'neath a frowning cliff, Or as a gem, majestically ensconced In diadem of crag and pinnacle. Mountain idylls, and Other Poems It is a prolonged analysis by a man of clear vision, and perfect balance of judgement, and no prepossessions; who was, moreover, master of the easy pellucid style that tends to maxim and epigram. Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles The atmosphere was so exquisitely luminous and pellucid that it might have seemed a fit medium to dispel uncertainty in other than merely material subjects of contemplation. The Frontiersmen When she had spoken, Alumion tripped to the flowing spring, and, taking a cup which was standing on the edge of the basin, filled it from the pellucid stream. A Trip to Venus Our names are set in "caps," and we have a brisk paragraph apiece, admirable pieces of composition, pellucid, compact, nervous. Walking-Stick Papers There is a grace and a softness in the prismatic lymph that give a new form and color to the common and familiar objects it has printed in its still, pellucid depths. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 A new spirit of poetry and philosophy brought God back into the world, revealed his incarnation in the mind of man, and changed nature into a pellucid garment within which throbbed the love divine. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher And that this exquisitely clear, pellucid style could be made to carry out not only gaiety and whimsicality but emotion of a deeper sort, is proved by the lovely "Clair de Lune." The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians They, of course, included a beautiful woman by Gainsborough, and a pellucid evening sky, with a group of pensive trees, by Corot. Evelyn Innes Antonyms: See stiff. limp, n. halt, limping, hobble. limpid, a. clear, pellucid, lucid. Putnam's Word Book HARTINGTON, with hat cunningly tipped over eyes, hid what secret may have lain far in their pellucid depths. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 14, 1891 One of the most striking features of this charming mountain Lake is the beautiful hues presented by its pellucid waters. 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 The body, nearly transparent, or of a pellucid green, is glossed with all the variety of prismatic tints, and thickly dotted with brown. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 495, June 25, 1831 The water is clear and brisk and the château looks as if it stood in a pellucid river. The Idler in France We found among the scrubs this day a new curious species of Baeckea with extremely small scattered leaves not larger than grains of millet, plano-convex and covered with pellucid dots.* Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 The sea, so blue and tranquil, sparkled softly on my left hand, the pellucid blue of the sky stretched overhead, and all the air was full of the sweet sunshine we associate with day. Five Nights In the clear and pellucid water one can clearly see them swim along. 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 Soon we reached the Tuolumne, with clear, pellucid water in limited quantities, for the snow was not very plentiful the previous winter and it melted early. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment And in the place of the disgust he felt, the cooling streams of holy wisdom found their way, as when one enters first a cold pellucid lake. Sacred Books of the East This filters foul water perfectly pellucid and clear very quickly, as I have seen its effects for years with the most perfect success. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 323, July 19, 1828 In autumn come for spirits rightly attuned these pellucid halcyon days of the Indian summer. Robert Browning There is no shade of blue or green that cannot here be found and the absolutely clear and pellucid quality of the water enhances the beauty and perfection of the tone. 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 Then she thought of the sky: it was permanently sky; but it was rarely placid and only pellucid to meteorologists, and of empathy it had none. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Lamartine's lyre gave forth an inexhaustible flow of melody—always faultless, always pellucid, and always, in the same key. Landmarks in French Literature The shadows of the pines are reflected in the pellucid depths, and ever and anon the faintest hint of a breeze sighs among their branches overhead. California Sketches, Second Series His sermons were like the waters of Lake George, so pellucid that you could see every bright pebble far down in the depths; a child could comprehend him, yet a sage be instructed by him. Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography Squaw Creek's clear, pellucid, snow-fed stream runs purling, babbling or roaring and foaming by to the right. 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 The house, a place of grey stone with grey weathered and lichen-coloured slates, raised its great oblong chimneys into a pellucid air. Witness for the Defense Among these the most remarkable was FÉNELON, Archbishop of Cambray, who combined great boldness of political thought with the graces of a charming and pellucid style. Landmarks in French Literature Opposite, across the gorge, amazingly distinct in the pellucid atmosphere, rose the high mountains, the undefiled, untrodden and eternal snows. Deadham Hard He has a wonderful gift of seizing the salient points of a character, and reproducing them in a few pellucid sentences. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 15, 1890 His mental fertility is remarkable, his memory marvellous, his reading immense, his mind discursive and agile, his style pellucid as water and often vigorous, while his subordinate conceptions are always ingenious and frequently valuable. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 Purity of heart, gentleness of disposition, intellectual endowments, were as clearly revealed by her speaking countenance as the innermost depths of a fountain are by the pellucid medium through which they are viewed. The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance She was like those pellucid waters whose great clearness deceives the eye as to their depth. Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel How white and pellucid was the shallow near me—no shadow but the shadow of my face bending over it—nothing to ripple its surface, but my imperceptible breath! The Morgesons Of her teeth she showed but little, and in her complexion there was none of that pellucid clearness in which men ordinarily delight. Mr. Scarborough's Family As we threaded our way among the patches of coral, the view from the masthead of the submarine forests through the still pellucid water was very striking. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea At a sign from the Governor, the gaolers threw themselves like tigers upon the little girl, closing a cruel pair of iron nippers on her pellucid and delicate jade hand. Eastern Shame Girl And now there are already myriads who have washed away the stains of war in the pellucid waves that lap your coast of azure. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 7, 1919. The edge is crenated, and the muscular impressions are very distinct, and raised above the surface, particularly that on the anterior valve, which is both pellucid and tubercular 18. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 Successive nations perchance have drunk at, admired, and fathomed it, and passed away, and still its water is green and pellucid as ever. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice The one exception was very pellucid, very unanswerable, and very cold-blooded. John Caldigate It is pellucid, that is, not opaque, or dark—it gives admission to the light, and reflects it back again in all its beauty, brilliancy, and purity. The Young Emigrants; Madelaine Tube; the Boy and the Book; and Crystal Palace Rootstocks creeping, filiform, stipes ascending, one to three inches long, thin, very delicate, pellucid, much divided, oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatifid. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada Shell minute, obliquely conical, thin, pellucid, variegated with spiral opaque white intercepted striae and several transverse scarlet bands formed of oblique lines; axis, imperforated, one-sixth, diameter one-eighth, of an inch. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 The night-dew had been remarkably heavy, and when the sun burst through the thick array of clouds that impended over the French coast, the cordage and sails discharged a sparkling shower of large pellucid drops. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 395, October 24, 1829 No wonder that culture smiles and passes aloof upon its pellucid and elevating course. Essays in Rebellion Alfred Fripp and George Fripp have also produced some very fine landscapes--mills, waters in foam or sleeping in pellucid pools, and the darkness of the tempest in contrast with gleams of sunshine. Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America The muzzy exaltation of the unaccustomed stimulants gave way very rapidly to a model of pellucid and impartial clairvoyance which is one of my habitual mental states. Tono Bungay The wall of the river had become a sheet of jewels, passing from pellucid diamond above to translucent emerald below. Prester John Its dark blue depths reflected in their pellucid clearness the water plants growing at its edge and the enclosing shrubs and trees. The Shuttle Moonlight, watery, pellucid, lifeless, ripples over the world. Young Adventure, a Book of Poems The current is rapid, and the pellucid waters glide over a bottom of sand and pebbles. Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America I wish I were dead—but will continue my harangue because the thought is pellucid. The Flirt Above the dark margin of the earth appeared foreshores and promontor- ies of coppery cloud,bounding a green and pellucid expanse in the western sky. Far from the Madding Crowd Successive nations perchance have drank at, admired, and fathomed it, and passed away, and still its water is green and pellucid as ever. Walden The water in the fountain, pellucid as crystal, was alive with myriads of gold and silver fishes, twinkling and darting through it like so many living jewels. Uncle Tom's Cabin Temple cast his eye on Miss Eldridge: a pellucid drop had stolen from her eyes, and fallen upon a rose she was painting. Charlotte Temple Here was a rude flounce into the pellucid sentimentality of his sad attachment to Sue. Jude the Obscure Above the dark margin of the earth appeared foreshores and promontories of coppery cloud, bounding a green and pellucid expanse in the western sky. Far from the Madding Crowd The year that Zoe entered High School, 1914, out of an international sky of fairly pellucid blue, the thunderclap of world war burst in fury. Star-Dust It was a beautiful and pellucid spring, that bubbled up in a small wild dell, which, nurtured by the flowing stream, was singularly fresh and green. Vivian Grey Read, and admired, Pope must always be—if not for his poetry and passion, yet for his elegance, wit, satiric force, fidelity as a painter of artificial life, and the clear, pellucid English. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 In 'amaurosis', the eye is beautifully clear, and, for a little while, this clearness imposes upon the casual observer; but there is a peculiar pellucid appearance about the eye—a preternatural and unchanging brightness. The Dog The following brought him in time to a soggy little thicket with three areas of moss-covered mud and two round, pellucid pools of water about a foot in diameter. The Forest One would expect every detail of his life to be known and recorded, his every private thought to be revealed with the pellucid clarity of his immortal strains. Handel I look upon you as a late-in-time Maecenas, generously resolved to defray the uttermost charge of weariness that a young writer may be encouraged to unfold himself and splash in the pellucid Tuscan air. Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett After a while the clouds mostly clear'd, and as the moon swam on, she carried, shimmering and shifting, delicate color-effects of pellucid green and tawny vapor. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy The coats and humours of the eye are perfectly transparent, in fact appear to be more pellucid than natural. The Dog When Hawthorne's volume of "English Sketches" was printed, he said, "It is pellucid, but not deep;" and he cut out the dedication and letter to Franklin Pierce, which offended him. Authors and Friends The pellucid jelly like Substance, called the Sea nettle I found in great abundance along the Strand where it has been thrown up by the waves and tide, and adheres to the Sand. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 He is the very antithesis of that pellucid and homogeneous character. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia After flying two or three hundred yards, the intense heat of the sun has dried its pellucid wings, and it is obliged to wet them in order to continue its flight. Wanderings in South America The soul is like water in a vessel, which appears pellucid when the sun does not shine through it; but if it does, the water then is found to be full of�motes. The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus The huts looked doubly mean in the pellucid day. The Happy End The pellucid jellylike substance, called the sea-nettle is found in great abundance along the strad where it has been thrown up by the waves and tide. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 How pellucid is thy word, though its music issues from the land of destruction!… The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) Snow still lay on the lowlands, but the sky was warm, pellucid, expansive. Tales of the Wilderness It is like most pellucid water running in a bed of crystal, reflecting the rays of the sun, compared with most muddy water on a cloudy day, flowing on the surface of the earth. The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus The night came: a darkness settled outside the windows, full of the whisperings of sad, pellucid voices. The Created Legend Here is an observation illustrating the manner in which certain pellucid sea-drops materialise and ultimately shed themselves as living organisms "into the shining sea." My Tropic Isle Those sentences, pellucid as a mountain spring, were not clarified without an effort. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne The day dawned cold, white, pellucid—breathing forth thin, misty vapour, while a hoar-frost clothed the houses, trees, and hedges. Tales of the Wilderness The rocky spires, pinnacles, and domes, glowing with gorgeous golden light, and the lower ranges, shaded with hazy blue, umber-red, and luminous purple, fell into picture and formed prospects indescribably pure and pellucid. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Never was such brilliant colour; it was chalk there, and on chalk the colours are always clearer, the poppies deeper, the yellow mustard and charlock a keener yellow; the air, too, is pellucid. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies And we glode fast o'er a pellucid plain Of waters, azure with the noontide ray. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain It is a prostrate plant, with coriaceous glossy leaves with small pellucid dots, and of great value for planting in the shade. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs The nights were silvery, the sky seemed dissolved into a pale, pellucid mist; sunset and dawn co-mingled, and a white wavering haze crept over the earth. Tales of the Wilderness Hence I hardly ever am moved at the sight of these pellucid fugitives in a fine woman. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 The song of the Greeks is full of sorrow; man was to them the creature of grief, yet theirs was the land of violets and pellucid air. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Of later years, the beautiful and injured Mrs. Fitzherbert might be seen traversing the greensward, which was laved by the then pellucid waters of the Thames. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 This is a much branched twiggy shrub, about 4 feet high, with small, linear-lanceolate leaves, thickly studded with pellucid dots. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs And, which is curious, at the point of every thread of this erect fringe stands a pellucid drop of mucilage, resembling a ducal coronet. The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. What spectacle of divination was in those pellucid depths unfolding to his rapt vision? Red Masquerade Then Naples, gleaming white in the eye of day over her pellucid depths of sea. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 It was as if he stood in some new pellucid atmosphere of his own. A Man and His Money An evergreen species, about 4 feet high, with oblong, pellucid, dotted leaves, and deep golden, somewhat waxy flowers at the end of summer. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs One looks with extreme interest at the beautiful pellucid drops of Sudanic gum, knowing that the Arabs bring some of it from the neighbourhood of Timbuctoo. Travels in Morocco, Volume 1. Disseat those woods, and place the same figure among fountains, and falls of pellucid water, and you have a—Naiad! The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia In its young state, the lettuce forms a well-known and wholesome salad, containing a bland pellucid juice, with little taste or smell, and having a cooling and soothing influence on the system. The Book of Household Management The rebels might spy them, might surround them, but they need not starve—the buds were food, the bushes refreshment, the pellucid pools drink and life. The Iron Game A Tale of the War He answered questions with innocent readiness and pellucid sincerity. The Secret of the Tower I no longer regarded the sparkling eddies of the little cascade which fell down a steep rock at the upper end of the garden, and formed a pellucid basin below. A Voyage to the Moon The fresh green blade of corn is like this, so pellucid, so clear and pure in its green as to seem to shine with colour. The Open Air This covering is neither opaque nor wholly pellucid, but is somewhat transparent; and it is by its means that the eagle is said to be able to gaze at the sun. The Book of Household Management They always do this when they meet, though they meet several times a day, and it is worth doing, for what they see in those pellucid pools is love eternal. Alice Sit-By-The-Fire From many a crevice in the rock drip down trickling springs, forming a pellucid basin below, whose dark, glossy surface, encircled with trees and shrubs, reflects the image. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 Water ever lay before me—water lying deep in the shady well—water in streams bubbling icy from the rock—water in pellucid lakes inviting me to plunge and revel in their treasures. First Footsteps in East Africa The pellucid stream of love served to keep her temper moderately cool. Queen Lucia In it are three springs of fair pellucid water, called, one of them the satyrs' well, the second Pan's, and the other that of Silenus. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 False Pontus! and the calm I hailed, The awaiting murder darkly veiled— The lulled pellucid flow, The smiles in which thou wert arrayed, Were but the snares that love betrayed To thy false realm below! The Poems of Schiller — Third period I shall never forget a day when my bride and I sat on the edge of the lagoon after our matinal dip in its pellucid waters. The Cruise of the Kawa That is a service not required; for all round stand great trees of pellucid crystal, whose fruit is drinking-cups of every shape and size. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 The so-called "first trace of the embryo" in the amniotes, or the embryonic shield, in the centre of the pellucid area, consists merely of an early differentiation and formation of the middle dorsal parts. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 But it was now summer, and the hour was noon, so that the unwonted reflection of the sun was dancing in the pellucid fountain. The Monastery And the pellucid lake is in the East. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II By contrast, the sky at the zenith displayed pellucid clearness, the sheen of a delicate glass bubble which the merest movement of air might shatter. Victory An Island Tale She is pellucid, and bubbles up in perfect purity; the water as bright over her pebbles as if it were a mass of silver. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 In the evening this was a favourite resort of many birds that came to drink at the pellucid stream, or catch insects playing above the water. The Naturalist in Nicaragua In this way blocks of sea-ice exposed to the sun's rays are relieved of their salty constituents, and crumble into pellucid gravel when disturbed. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 I have tried all, and they bear about as much relation to one another as a puddle of dirty water does to a pellucid lake. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II Clearly babies of iron nerves and pellucid consciences. The Solitary Summer How little the all-important art of making meaning pellucid is studied now! Autobiography of Anthony Trollope "I think that I will fight shy of this sleepy burgh," he ruminated, as the little paddle-wheel steamer sped along toward Ferney, leaving behind a huge triangular wake carved in the pellucid waters. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story There was a liquid depth in them which enabled the gazer to look down into them as he would into the green, pellucid transparency of still ocean water. Castle Richmond The first objects of interest I observed in the drinking-water supply were four natives washing themselves and their clothes; the next was the bloated body of a dead goat reposing in a pellucid pool. Travels in West Africa And being come, at length, to the Hollow, Charmian must needs pause beside the pool among the willows, to view herself in the pellucid water. The Broad Highway Its leaves, however, had neither the vernation nor the pellucid dots of Myrtaceous trees. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Salt-water pans are pellucid and clear, as the inexperienced may find at his cost. Spinifex and Sand A beautiful stone, like a sapphire; blue but uncut and of a strange pellucid transparency—a jewel undoubtedly; but of a kind we have never seen. The Blind Spot He stood on the very verge of that channel, and could see in the pellucid element before him, that it was deep enough to float a vessel of some size. Jack Tier But Sir Charles and I, though immersed in affairs when at home, both thoroughly enjoy the complete change from the City to the charming vegetation and pellucid air on the terrace at Monte Carlo. An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay I looked into his large gray eyes, and saw the truth and earnestness shining in their depths, like pebbles at the bottom of a pellucid spring. Friends and Neighbors He saw how pure, how pellucid, how noble the woman was; treading her own ideal world of high seraphic harmonies. The Woman Who Did The morning was fine, and seemed to promise one of the peculiarly hushed, pellucid days that occur sometimes before rain in early winter. The Aran Islands It was full tide; the water at the foot of the cliffs was of a wonderful green, pellucid, delicate, through which the chalk was visible, with dark masses of weed here and there. Thyrza He seemed like topaz, so strangely brownish and pellucid. Women in Love Nowadays the whole world thinks clearly, thinks with deliberation, pellucid certainties, you find it impossible to imagine how any other thinking could have been possible. In the Days of the Comet Down their sides flowed numberless waterfalls, which went on their way in brawling but pellucid streams. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth The crystal drops That trickle down the branches, fast congealed, Shoot into pillars of pellucid length And prop the pile they but adorned before. The Task and Other Poems And as though we were sinking in that sky stream's depths its light kept lessening, darkening imperceptibly with luminous shadows of ghostly beryl, drifting veils of pellucid aquamarine, limpid mists of glaucous chrysolite. The Metal Monster The air was so pellucid that one distinguished without difficulty the straight entrance to the gorge a mile away, and even the West Bend, fully five miles distant. The Blazed Trail Sakr-el-Bahr drank slowly, his eyes never leaving the vessel, whose every ratline was clearly defined by now in the pellucid air. The Sea-Hawk There was an endless horizon of turquoise blue, a zenith pellucid as glass. The Puppet Crown The only sign of moisture in his whole body was a pellucid drop that I occasionally noticed on the end of along, dry nose. Washington Irving They were limpid, pellucid as gems whose giant replicas they seemed to be. The Metal Monster THE subsiding sea was now a liquid Paradise: its great pellucid braes and hillocks shone with the sparkle and the hues of all the jewels in an emperor's crown. Hard Cash Disintegrated shell seems to be extremely soluble; of which I found good evidence, in a curious rock at Coquimbo in Chile, which consisted of small, pellucid, empty husks, cemented together. Volcanic Islands There were the hatches, there was the culvert; they could see the pebbly bed of the stream through the pellucid water. Life's Little Ironies I'll knock out the props and launch you proper in the pellucid waters of this tropical mud puddle. Cabbages and Kings "Well, monsieur," said the king, fixing his pellucid eyes on D'Artagnan, "what have you to say to me?" The Man in the Iron Mask His adoration naturally only deepened itself as all hope at once receded, as it could not but recede before the absolute pellucid truth of her. T. Tembarom Miss Mayhew and myself are not pellucid drops of dew that you look through at a glance. A Face Illumined And finally, follow the winding of the pellucid stream until it is ejected through a narrow passageway into the turbulent Colorado. The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it A river runs itself clear during the night, and in sleep thought becomes pellucid. The Story of My Heart An Autobiography In the colourless and pellucid dawn the wood of pines detached its columns of trunks and its dark green canopy very clearly against the rocks of the grey hillside. A Set of Six But the pellucid blueness of the gaze that met his was confusingly unstirred by any shade of suitable timidity or emotion. T. Tembarom Often the air is calm and pellucid, without a single cloud on high. An Iceland Fisherman The water is swifter and very dark, it drowns the fly soon, and on the surface the fly is less easily distinguished than at Whitchurch, in the pellucid streams. Angling Sketches What is it you see with those wise and pellucid eyes? The Shape of Fear Afraid of ideas, we come to no definite philosophy of life that is the result of clear and pellucid thinking. The Vision Splendid The vaquero with them rode forward and pointed to the valley below, where the ranch-house huddled in a pellucid sea of moonlight. Bucky O'Connor The solemnity of politics; the necessity of votes; the necessity of Huggins; the necessity of Buggins; all these flow in a pellucid stream from the lips of all the suffragette speakers. What's Wrong with the World Clara, communicated as much as she was able in one of those looks of still depth which say, Think! and without causing a thought to stir, takes us into the pellucid mind. The Egoist She looked away over west as she went to the barn and there, dark and firm against the horizon, stood the little house against the pellucid sky of morning. The Shape of Fear In citing this admirable exposition as a specimen of M. Taine's method of dealing with his subject, we have refrained from disturbing the pellucid current of thought by criticisms of our own. The Unseen World and Other Essays In the clear cool surface of the pond he could see the sky mirrored, deeper than any ocean, pellucid, infinite, blue. Where the Blue Begins The spirit of Ianthe is rapt by the Fairy Mab in her pellucid car to the confines of the universe, where the past, present, and future of the earth are unfolded to the spirit's gaze. Shelley The condition of the air, sometimes foggy and not pellucid, at another time particularly clear, makes an enormous difference, and statements whether about distance, size, colors, etc., are completely unreliable. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students His long residence in that country, his flexibility of mind, poetic imagination, and wonderfully pellucid style have fitted him for the most delicate of literary tasks. Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things But in this pellucid air things took their proper proportions again. The Research Magnificent We have the finest English summer and a pellucid sky.... Life of John Sterling The night, which had been pellucid and detailed and eventful, seemed to vanish, to be replaced abruptly by a black background to these tremendous pillars of fire.... The World Set Free Nor is the source of this pellucid clearness and imaginative power far to seek. The Life of John Bunyan It may be that watcher drifting in the pellucid gulf beneath the stars watched all through the night; it may be that he dozed. The World Set Free |
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