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

Though jewels should phosphoric burn Through those night-waters of thine hair, A flower from its translucid urn Poured silver flame more lunar-fair.

From Poems by Thompson, Francis

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

From Evelyn Innes by Moore, George (George Augustus)

Under its fine translucid skin there is nothing coloured, save the long digestive pouch, which is swollen a deep purple by the pulp of the consumed Crickets.

From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

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