There in the flickering light of the lamp was the machine sure enough, squat, ugly, and askew; a thing of brass, ebony, ivory, and
translucent glimmering quartz.
Through the deep
translucent blue beneath me a slim shape glided; three smaller fish led the way; they dallied an instant a fathom under my feet, which were snatched up, with what haste you may imagine; then on they went to surer prey.
On the contrary, the room was of dazzling brilliance and beauty, for it was lined throughout with an exquisite metal that resembled
translucent frosted silver.
It may well be that his fixity of attention - Druse turned his head and looked through the deeps of air downward as from the surface of the bottom of a
translucent sea.
The glassy, cool,
translucent wave was almost visible before her, curling up at the end of the bed, and as it was refreshingly cool she tried to keep her mind fixed upon it.
The whole of the rest of the garden was on fire with tulips; behind me, on the other side of the wall, were rows and rows of them,--cups of
translucent loveliness, a jewelled ring flung right round the lawn.
Above the bridge the pond ran up into fringing groves of fir and maple and lay all darkly
translucent in their wavering shadows.
Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool,
translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair, Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake,
The subtle essence acted on him like a charmed draught, and caused the opaque substance of his animal being to grow transparent, or, at least,
translucent; so that a spiritual gleam was transmitted through it, with a clearer lustre than hitherto.
A shaft of sunlight smote the over-curl, and I caught a glimpse of
translucent, rushing green, backed by a milky smother of foam.
Above him was the light,
translucent, billowing globe of shining brown oiled silk and the blazing sunlight and the great deep blue dome of the sky.
Above the Kolocha, in Borodino and on both sides of it, especially to the left where the Voyna flowing between its marshy banks falls into the Kolocha, a mist had spread which seemed to melt, to dissolve, and to become
translucent when the brilliant sun appeared and magically colored and outlined everything.