From the vital ovoids ran a pattern of sparkling threads, irised and brilliant as floss of molten jewels; converging with interfacings of spirals, of volutes and of triangles into the nucleus.
And then from every snow and glacier-crowned peak, from minaret and pinnacle and towering turret, leaped forth a confusion of soft peacock flames, a host of irised prismatic gleamings, an ordered chaos of rainbows.
Flares and flames of pale emerald, steady glowing of flame rubies, glints and lambencies of deepest sapphire, of wan sapphire, flickering opalescences, irised glitterings.
Another hour, and their amethyst-and-purple mantles would drop upon them; snowfields and glaciers sparkle out in irised beauty; nightfall.
Frost this morning; all the meadow grass and some of the pine needles sparkling with irised crystals,--flowers of light.
He let the gray-irised eyes drink in the full cup of his determination.
And as they shook hands her gray-irised eyes gazed intently and interrogatively into his.
Looking northward across the Valley you see a plain, gray granite cliff rising abruptly out of the gardens and groves to a height of 1800 feet, and in front of it Tueeulala's silvery scarf burning with irised sun-fire.
Here the view is perfectly free down into the heart of the bright irised throng of comet-like streamers into which the whole ponderous volume of the fall separates, two or three hundred feet below the brow.
And He who made thee to be just and true Will bless thee, love thee,--ay, respect thee too!
A door irised open for them in a solid wall of metal.
Irised was the only word Temple could think of, for a tiny round hole appeared in the wall spreading evenly in all directions with a slow, uniform, almost liquid motion.
The many-coloured rays darted across the white waters and sought the face of the irised Veil.
Knowing even as I did what the irised curtain had hidden, still it was as though some thing of supernal beauty and wonder had been swept away, never to be replaced; a glamour gone for ever; a work of the high gods destroyed.
Their enormous saucer eyes were irised by wide bands of green-flecked red, in which the phosphorescence flickered.
Gladly I climbed along its dashing border, absorbing its divine music, and bathing from time to time in waftings of irised spray.
Such dazzling brilliance, such effects of white light and irised light glowing and flashing I had never seen before, nor have I since.
Forth in the sunlit, rain-bathed air we stepped, Sweet with the dripping grass and flowering vine, And saw through irised clouds the pale sun shine.
The water seemed to hang poised before us like glorious amber curtains; the delicate fineness of their gauzy folds gloriously revealed in irised spray by the sunlight.
When it is dashed to gauzy, irised spray it seems as gentle as the pearly mists of dawn, but its deep thunder-like detonations tell of a mighty power.
Here from the thick-growing shrubbery as we watched the amber waters concentrate for their fall, and break into silken streamers of irised spray, we knew they had been appropriately named "Rainbow Falls.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "irised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: iridescent; moire; nacreous; opalescent; pearly
