diaphaneity
Example Sentences
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It is neither young nor old, the Face: it has a vapoury indefinableness that leaves it a riddle;—its diaphaneity reveals no particular tint;—perhaps you may not even be quite sure whether it has a beard.
From Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories by Joseph Lewis French
From the conversation which followed I was able to learn that his neighbor, blond and wan almost to diaphaneity, taciturn and sarcastic, was Boulmier, a fellow-student.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various
All sorts of adjectives qualify our thoughts which appear incompatible with consciousness, being as such a bare diaphaneity.
From Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James
From the conversation which followed I was able to learn that his neighbor, blond and wan almost to diaphaneity, taciturn and sarcastic was Boulmier, a fellow student.
From The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by Anatole France
The diaphaneity of Babet contrasted with the grossness of Gueulemer.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
