... The wall of the river had become a sheet of jewels, passingfrom pellucid diamond above to translucent emerald below...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
...From the West Coast of Africa we get ivory which is always translucent,with a dark outside or coating, but partly hard and partly soft...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...I was never tired, when the wind was still, of floating along its margin and gazing down into its marvelously translucent depths...
John Burroughs 「Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and, Other Papers」
...If we examine the abdomen bytransmitted light, we shall see that the anterior two-thirds of theabdomen are translucent...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...The flesh is white, delicate, partly translucent, easy for our stomachs to digest and no less suited to the grub's dissolvent...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...Whatit sees is a bag made of ultra-fine gold-beater's skin, translucent,stiff and white, retaining the complete form of the original egg...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...Infertile eggs remained translucent andeventually became dark yellow, never becoming white; they couldbe distinguished from fertile eggs on the basis of color alone...
John M. Legler 「Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz」
...Enamel is a vitreous or glass compound, translucent, semi-translucent oropaque, owing its colouring properties to mineral oxides, or sulphides,a fine opaque white being produced by oxide of tin...
Richard Glazier 「A Manual of Historic Ornament」
...Child of Man,See’st thou yon river, whose translucent wave,Forth issuing from darkness, windeth throughThe argent streets o’ the City, imagingThe soft inversion of her tremulous Domes...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 「The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson」
...ne glance through the lookouts behind him showed lashing serpentforms, translucent as pale fire; impossible beasts from space...
Various 「Astounding Stories, May, 1931」
...The body was some five feet in length, and it was translucent...
Charles Willard Diffin 「Brood of the Dark Moon」
...It was another of the yard-long egg-shaped crystals of translucent amber like the one that had been materialized in Benjamin Marlowe’s laboratory...
Hal K. Wells 「Devil Crystals of Arret」
...Its outlines, its laces, and embroideries,give the image of a jewel of shining silver, translucent, fluid,palpitating in the ether...
Camille Flammarion Frances A. Welby 「Astronomy for Amateurs」
...Amagnificent sheet of water lay before us in one unbroken expanse,resembling a smooth translucent lake...
John Lort Stokes 「Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2」
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