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

Its edges, a little translucid, give it some resemblance to the hornstone, so common in secondary limestones.*

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina

What I felt after Florence was the translucid calm of the ocean's depth.

From Evelyn Innes by Moore, George (George Augustus)

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

She gazed at the sky and mountain, the lake and its translucid waves around us.

From Raphael Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty by Lamartine, Alphonse de