There was a faint, opaline haze in the afternoon air, and in the still waters of the harbor the low hills, with their foliage lightly touched in bronze and amethyst and amber, were faithfully reproduced.
Down, slanting far down through the opaline opaqueness, he saw the huge trunk extend itself, to an immemorial root-hold in the clayey, perpendicular walls of the Perdu.
Reflecting a milky or pearly light from the interior; having an opaline play of colors.
A nearly pellucid variety of feldspar, showing pearly or opaline reflections from within.
The opaline loveliness of the choir's clearstory grisaille has drawn from M.
The opaline light which comes through these lateral bays, and makes a sort of veil, transparent in the extreme, under the lofty vaulting, is crossed by the brilliant tones of the windows behind, which give the play of precious stones.
On her imperial heart the flames of hell showed only the opaline colours of heaven.
Then the fear of the Abyss, the vast and voiceless Nightmare of the Sea, will come upon you; the silent panic of all those opaline millions that flee glimmering by will enter into you also.
The dawn came up by and by; first in faint opaline splendors, then scarlet and gold.
Her eyes were like emeralds held before a blaze, and the intense, opaline pallor of her face was warm as if tinged by a flame.
In the noonday light the intense, opaline pallor of her face was startling.
Mariana blushed and laughed, the faint color warming the opaline pallor of her face.
Dissolves easily and when in some quantity gives anopaline bead.
With a still larger addition of oxide it becomes opaline yellow on cooling.
With a larger addition, the glass is, in the hot state, of a deep orange color, which changes to yellow and finally becomes opaline in process of cooling.
When in larger quantity yellow while warm and opaline when cold, and a further addition of acid renders it yellow when warm, the color, on cooling, changing first to a pale enamel blue, and then to an enamel white.
The effect of opaline mist was often repeated at Bessborough Gardens on account of the nearness to the river.
It was very early morning and a slight mist, an opaline mist as in Bessborough Gardens only without the fiery flicks on roof and chimney-pot from the rays of the red London sun, promised to turn presently into a woolly fog.
A pale purple outline of waving hills lay on the silvery sea, which, as it grew later, became opaline in hue.
Literally and carefully I speak of the light of pearls, with the opaline changes.
Sometimes, in the splendor of the dying light, we seem sporting upon transparent gold, so prismatic becomes the ice; and the snow takes opaline hues, from the gems that float above as clouds.
The first beams of dawn were beginning to tinge the horizon with their fugitiveopaline tints, and the sky gradually assumed that ruddy hue which announces sunrise.
The dawn was just commencing to overshadow the horizon with transient opaline tints; a few stars were still glistening in the dark blue sky.
The clouds, which had been of a dull uniform gray, began to break asunder and disclose little shining rifts of pale blue and bright gold; the sea looked like a wide satin ribbon shaken out and shimmering with opaline tints.
It was daylight though not full morning--the sun had not yet risen, but there was an opaline luster in the sky, and one pale pink streak in the east like the floating pennon from the lance of a hero, which heralded his approach.
The sun was going down, leaving a great glory of gold and crimson clouds and an opaline haze upon the purple mountains.
The shadow of the coming night had fallen on the autumnal foliage in the deep valley; in the place of the opaline haze was only a gray mist.
At a small table immediately beneath a dome of glass, through whose softly opaline texture an aureole of light seemed to embrace them, sat Franklin, Galileo and Newton.
The Colonel, sitting opposite to her in the straight-backed chair such as he always chose, noted, with a curiously disengaged pleasure, the wonderful opaline quality of the impression she made.
But just to-day, just at this moment, she only wanted to watch the slender prow, skimming the wonderfulopaline waters, drawing ever nearer to those mystic islands floating over yonder like a dream within a dream.
Beyond in a northerly direction the vast grandiose outline of Mont Ventoux shows an opaline hue, its deep violet tints being subdued in the paling afternoon light.
Every land may occasionally have a beautiful sunset, and many lands have gorgeous and brilliant ones; but nowhere have they such softly burning, milky-rose, opaline effects as on this inland sea.
Where once shone its opaline palisades is now but a field of crumpled ice.
Millions of little milk-white, opaline birds instantly flew up and settled in the sky.
Shaken through and through their perfume was that thrilling, indescribable sweetness which abides in vast spaces where snow mountains glimmer and the opaline palisades of glaciers shine.
Down this channel at sunset burns the most beautiful coloring, which slides over the milky waters, producing an opaline effect.
What moonlights must glitter there like millions of diamonds; what sunrises and sunsets must burn like opaline mist!
It should send out air-bubbles when poured from one vessel into another; it should boil pulse soft, and form with soap an uniform opaline fluid, which does not separate after standing for several hours.
It was about five in the morning, and the sky was beginning to assume those opaline tints which summoned daybreak.
The sun had not yet risen; the sky of a dark blue, was only just beginning to assume on the extreme verge of the horizon those opaline tints which presently turn into pink, and are the precursors of sunrise.
At this moment the first signs of twilight tinged the extreme line of the horizon with an opaline hue, the old man drew himself up, his eye became animated, and flashed.
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