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
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 Stéphane Leduc
The others, red, yellow or white, are actually painted: on a translucid sheet is a wash of urinary pigment, which is discharged by the minute ducts issuing from the adipose layer.
From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
The moment was an enchanting one, the light falling through the translucid leaves and the poet walking up and down carried my thoughts into another age.
From Memoirs of My Dead Life by George (George Augustus) Moore
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 Bernard Miall
