FLAKE is inspired by the technology of the manufacturing of styrofoam and plays with the translucid surface of this structure. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The 1816 Encyclopaedia Britannica said it was fluid of the purest and most translucid nature. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Of decidedly original design, this is a vehicle that has no desire to look like other cars which depend on “black gold”: priority has been given to integration of the photovoltaic cells which compose its translucid roof. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The moon was glass-bright, translucid, shimmering, sometimes going dark and emerging again among the shadows. ❋ Hall, Adam (1968)
This city, therefore, like a mighty galleon with all her apparel mounted, streamers flying, and tackling perfect, seems floating along the noiseless depths of ocean: and oftentimes in glassy calms, through the translucid atmosphere of water that now stretches like an air-woven awning above the silent encampment, mariners from every clime look down into her courts and terraces, count her gates, and number the spires of her churches. ❋ Various (N/A)
Giovanni Pisano made some translucid enamels for the decorations of the high altar in Florence, and also a jewelled clasp to embellish the robe of a statue of the Virgin. ❋ Julia De Wolf Gibbs Addison (N/A)
Blue berries are plentiful in some parts of the district; there is a peculiar variety of them, which I preferred to any fruit I ever tasted; it is about the size of a musket-ball, of a purple colour, translucid, and in its taste sweet and acid are deliciously blended. ❋ John M'lean (N/A)
When well-cooked brew has been kept for a few months, it assumes a translucid amber color, smells and tastes strongly of rum, and is highly intoxicating. ❋ John M. Garvan (N/A)
Edward II. sends to the Pope in 1317, among other gifts, a golden ewer and basin, studded with translucid enamels, supplied by Roger de Frowyk, a London goldsmith, for the price of one hundred and forty-seven pounds, Humphrey de Bohun, who died in 1361, said his prayers to beads of gold; Edward ❋ Jean Jules Jusserand (N/A)
The golden afternoon sun lay all around and everything was radiant with translucid green. ❋ Stijn [pseud.] Streuvels (1920)
This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuit of things through forms, and making them translucid to others. ❋ Unknown (1909)
A light breeze brightened the waters of the Sound, and they ran down the shore before it and then tacked out toward the sunset, coming back at last, under a failing breeze, as the summer sky passed from blue to a translucid green and then into the accumulating greys of twilight. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)
No more delightful talker than Mendès, no more accomplished _littérateur_, no more fluent and translucid critic. ❋ Unknown (1892)
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. ❋ Unknown (1892)
Kitty has taken off her straw hat, the sunlight caresses the delicate plenitudes of the bent neck, the delicate plenitudes bound with white cambric, cambric swelling gently over the bosom into the narrow circle of the waist, cambric fluted to the little wrist, reedy translucid hands; cambric falling outwards and flowing like a great white flower over the green sward, over the mauve stocking, and the little shoe set firmly. ❋ Unknown (1892)
Kitty had taken off her straw hat, the sunlight caressed the delicate plenitudes of the bent neck, the delicate plenitudes bound with white cambric, cambric swelling gently over the bosom into the narrow of the waist, cambric fluting to the little wrist, reedy, translucid hands; cambric falling outwards, and flowing like a great white flower over the greensward, over the mauve stocking, and the little shoe set firmly. ❋ Unknown (1892)
The brown sails of the fishing-boats waved in translucid green; and the white field of the sheer cliff, and all the roofs, gables, spires, balconies, and the green of the verandahs were exquisitely indicated and elusive in the bright air; and the beach was loud with acrobats and comic minstrels, and nurse-maids lay on the pebbles reading novels, children with their clothes tied tightly about them were busy building sand castles. ❋ Unknown (1892)
What I felt after Florence was the translucid calm of the ocean's depth. ❋ Unknown (1892)
The sky was hard, implacable, without a star, but all the same translucid. ❋ Sarah Bernhardt (1884)
As far as the eye could reach, in the pure translucid atmosphere, the bright colored kerchiefs of the girls appeared above the wheat-fields like so many poppy flowers. ❋ Henryk Sienkiewicz (1881)
