translucid
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Background characters are presented as translucid entities reinforcing the idea that most of us, trapped in routinary hells, are already ghosts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023
It does not, however, here form rocks in grotesque shapes, but little hills covered with tabular blocks, large plates extremely sonorous, translucid on the edges, and wounding the hands when broken.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von
We may sometimes succeed in hooking up one of these long vermiform growths, breaking the calcareous sheath, and drawing out a long undulating translucid gelatinous cylinder.
From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane
As far as the eye could reach, in the pure translucid atmosphere, the bright colored kerchiefs of the girls appeared above the wheat-fields like so many poppy flowers.
From Without Dogma by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
The sheaths of the antennæ, without a wrinkle, without the least derangement, and in their natural place, hang over this dead, translucid face.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard
