Lucence

Right now they possessed the fugitive trans-lucence of smoke. ❋ Lustbader, Eric (1983)

High in the ancient forest the magnolias burn the perfect alban lucence of their lamps; white are their ivory cups like priestly linen, and fragrant with the tang of foreign citrons. ❋ Hervey Allen (1919)

Before us, thin as smoke in the magic lucence that flooded the world, rose other mountains, very great, lofty as the sky. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

And then deliberately the whole universe turned faintly gray, and the smaller stars faded in the lucence of dawn, and the brief, weird world of half-light came into being. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

Then the low western horizon turned to a dark band between sky and water, and the heavens immediately above took on a pale green lucence of infinite depth. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

But now, as the darkness of the shadows deepened, and the light of water and sky took on a deeper lucence before being extinguished, for the first time the sense of pain and the incompleteness of beautiful things entered his heart. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

The plain, self-luminous with the weird lucence of the arid lands, showed ghostly. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

She gave herself time to adore the drapery, with its changes of meteoric lucence, before she rose and took it. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)