In our rooms, upstairs, all was open to the air; bamboo blinds hung on the sunny side, and through their transparency came warm air and golden threads of light.
So in the Gospel, our Lord continually complains that the Jews did not even believe Him on His word--strong and clear as that word was with all the freshness of Heaven, and all the transparency of truth.
But let it be observed first, that from the very constitution of St. John's intellectual and moral being things outward and visible were not annihilated by the spiritual transparency which he imparted to them.
Then, as the day descended into evening, the autumn trees assumed that wonderful effect of luminousness self-evolved, and the red brick walls that crimson afterglow, which Tuscan twilight takes from singular transparency of atmosphere.
Perfect stillness succeeded, save for sounds made by the restless cattle; then the banjo tinkled, and a clear voice rang out through the soft transparency of the summer night: "All day long the reapers!
We shall subsequently have abundant opportunity for learning that transparency to the visible by no means involves transparency to the invisible rays.
The difference between the highest known transparency and the highest known opacity is one of degree merely.
They knew that tenders were won by bribes, that transparencywas a mockery, that the courts were negligent and inefficient.
Transparency humbles, ensures the injection of fresh intellectual blood, improves performance, and gives taxpayers a good feeling.
You cannot see into its substance a millionth of a micron--the illusion of transparency being purely a surface phenomenon, and peculiar to this one form of substance.
As they made their way back to the great control-room room of the vessel, they saw something that because of its small size and clear transparency they had not previously seen.
In some cases the roof had broken away, and revealed rows of icicles of great length and transparency pendent from the edges.
That is, either in effecting transparency in those bodies which were not so before, or at least far short of the additional degree: So Snow becomes transparent upon liquation, so Horns and Bodies resolvable into continued parts or gelly.
Sidenote: Exact continuity of parts a cause of transparency in things, and why.
If the transparency be produced by the carbon process a negative may then be made from it by contact, and the necessary reversal will be brought about without the use of the copying camera.
There are processes of copying, usually by first producing a transparency and from that again a negative.
Should dry plates, however, be used, the transparency may be produced in the camera and the negative by contact in a printing frame, or vice versa, or both may be produced by means of the camera.
Dry mist, or want of transparency of the air, a sign of fair-weather 20 Tides on both sides of the earth.
Anson expresses much surprise, in his voyage, at the distance at which his vessels were discovered from the coast; but he did not sufficiently allow for the height of the land, and the great transparency of the air.
The increased brilliancy of the moon and stars at this elevation, owing to the perfect transparency of the atmosphere, was very remarkable.
The wind on the summit was exceedingly cold, but it was impossible not to stop for a few minutes to admire, again and again, the colour of the heavens, and the brilliant transparency of the atmosphere.
The transparency is, I presume, owing to the equable and high state of atmospheric dryness.
Is it not an uncommon case, thus to find a remarkable degree of aerial transparency with such a state of weather?
Marine vegetation seems to have its vertical extent determined by the range of light in water, which varies with the power of the sun and the transparency of the water.
It is true the villages are of a dazzling white, but the dazzle is to be referred, perhaps, to the transparency of the atmosphere as much as to the whitewash.
The purity and transparency of the atmosphere were wonderful.
Under the rose he informed me, that he had undertaken to paint a transparency for Vauxhall, against an expected visit of the Allied Sovereigns to that place.
The plate done in this way gives a negative result, so that a transparency must be made and used so as to convert that into a positive print.
The transparency is then transferred and adjusted to the other enlargement, the curves of which should be seen to be congruent.
There may seem to be a contradiction between the terms opacity and great transparency of shadows, which may need further explanation.
This quality, with great clearness or transparency in the shadows, and a beautiful gradation of light and shade, make it unique as a positive collodion.
It occasionally happens that it is desirable to make the image in the transparency on a scale a little larger than that in the negative.
To produce a transparency by wet collodion, a camera is required the body of which will be capable of extending to twice the focus of the lens, although a still further extension is desirable.
Great care must be taken to have this transparency in sharpest focus, and full-timed in exposure to secure line detail.
The reason for this lies in the fact that when making a transparency the same size as the negative, the sensitive plate must be withdrawn from the lens to the extent of precisely twice the solar focus.
A lantern transparency must have its high lights of pure glass; in the case of the others, it is of less consequence, should they be slightly shaded.
These conditions are fulfilled in all good transparency cameras.
It is possible, however, so to develop a collodion transparency as to obtain a rich purple black tone without any after toning.
The outfit of goods for making and finishing transparencies consists of: Transparency frames, common and patented, made with rings for hanging horizontally or vertically.
One little gem of a negative or transparency will afford the maker more real pleasure, than many a costlier amusement.
This will make an admirable positive or transparencyif properly done.
And an exchange in the form of a transparency enables the receiver to command all other styles of pictures, through the negative that may be produced from it.
There is a richness of tone, combined with great transparency in the shadows and clear glass in the high lights, quite unattainable with bromide emulsions, and rivaling the best wet work.
Its transparency is so great, when compared with sea-ice, that Dr.
At the transparency the rival crowds were cheering or groaning according to the news that came.
A little cheer was raised in the room, and down the street at the transparency there was a cheer, too, but the voices were not the same as those that cheered a few moments ago.
