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  • Then came her cloglike shoes-"bakya"-then the iridescent seashells by her feet-"capiz"-then a woven bamboo mat-"banig"-that was laid out before her.†   (source)
  • A magpie flew up as she walked in, a flash of black and white and iridescent green, and settled in the branches of a yew tree, watching her.†   (source)
  • I conjured for him electric skies and iridescent seas and evenings full of laughter and silly jokes.†   (source)
  • Flat, glossy, iridescent.†   (source)
  • He could see the iridescent speckled pattern on the back.†   (source)
  • A large ring of black, iridescent stone glimmered on Cain's finger—strange that he'd wear it to practice.†   (source)
  • It's a weird, jarring effect, as if their heads are engulfed in a spinning, iridescent green fire.†   (source)
  • Its spherical stone eyeballs, as big as apples, were iridescent green.†   (source)
  • Alyss could see the iridescent Heart Crystal beyond the locked entrance, giving off its white clouds of imaginative energy.†   (source)
  • Even the box seats can see the metallic, iridescent liquid dripping from Samson's mouth.†   (source)
  • Today, Maya had secured her wild dark hair off her face with adorable iridescent pink butterfly clips.†   (source)
  • They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned.†   (source)
  • She even had wings that looked like they'd been made out of iridescent paper floating behind her.†   (source)
  • The flat blade was iridescent red and shimmered in the firelight.†   (source)
  • Women with iridescent feathers on their heads and trailing down their spines.†   (source)
  • I looked down at his hand and doodled aimlessly across his smooth, iridescent palm.†   (source)
  • I could already see the sky, iridescent and just beyond the water above me.†   (source)
  • When the water fell again, it left a wide swath of bizarre, bejeweled seaweed—blue, and green, and, in a certain light, iridescent.†   (source)
  • Deep green and dense burgundy rooster feathers; a white tail feather from a dove; a sparrow feather, dust brown, dotted with dark blotches; and the one of which Pari was proudest, an iridescent green peacock feather with a beautiful large eye at the tip.†   (source)
  • A few iridescent blue beetles scuttled away, and the head of an emerald-green lizard emerged from a heap of tiny coins.†   (source)
  • In Pappachi's study, mounted butterflies and moths had disintegrated into small heaps of iridescent dust that powdered the bottom of their glass display cases, leaving the pins that had impaled them naked.†   (source)
  • She was wearing a short togalike robe of the same iridescent material that the crone Hekate had worn, but this time the dress was streaked with golds and greens.†   (source)
  • The water they contained was covered with an iridescent film and it was full of dead flies, midges and spiders.†   (source)
  • He felt the dozing cat's purr of his kidneys, he felt the iridescent brilliance of his vesicles, he felt the humming blood in his arteries.†   (source)
  • I popped a beer and sat out on the patio, staring into the iridescent blue water of the lit swimming pool.†   (source)
  • They blossomed delicately white and iridescent out of the tidal morass.†   (source)
  • …one of the tiny drones that kept a watch on their district, part of a swarm, and not larger than a hummingbird, crashed into the transparent plastic flap that served as both door and window of their shanty, and Saeed gathered its motionless iridescent body and showed it to Nadia, and she smiled and said they ought to give it a burial, and they dug a small hole right there, in the hilly soil where it had fallen, using a spade, and then covered this grave again, pressed it flat, and…†   (source)
  • But in that sunset my hands seemed to have been dipped in some sort of iridescence.†   (source)
  • Often the sheep were marked with a circle of bright iridescent spray paint to denote their owners.†   (source)
  • Pigeons waddled in the grass near her feet, pecking, shuffling their iridescent wings.†   (source)
  • The wet grass glittered and nearby a nut tree sparkled iridescent, winking and gleaming as its branches moved in the light wind.†   (source)
  • Her hair was still partly brown in places, gone wiry and iridescent, goldshot in bright light, bobby-pinned, and we sat there with the TV going.†   (source)
  • The door of his face had opened; his skin looked iridescent.†   (source)
  • The iridescent painted cat she insisted I buy her is between us on the seat, and I can't wait to get home because it's scaring the crap out of me.†   (source)
  • Through the high windows we saw again and again the play of candlelight on richly embossed plaster ceilings and often the bright iridescent wreath of a crystal chandelier.†   (source)
  • She was immune to vanity and that day she was more absent than usual, dreaming of new beasts to embroider on her tablecloth, creatures that were half bird and half mammal, covered with iridescent feathers and endowed with horns and hooves, and so fat and with such stubby wings that they defied the laws of biology and aerodynamics.†   (source)
  • A black lacquered antique table stood in front of iridescent silver curtains, and beyond them, I could see something that glinted like the ocean, though I knew it couldn't be.†   (source)
  • The iridescent bubbles were beautiful.†   (source)
  • The boy who'd seen Vlad's eyes flash that weird iridescent purple last year, the boy who'd photographed him floating up to the belfry.†   (source)
  • It's made of silky velvet, overprinted in a paler blue and dotted with iridescent beads.†   (source)
  • Four glowing pillars-ruby, emerald, jasper, and a golden yellow-rose from the floor to the iridescent domed ceiling.†   (source)
  • She wore a knee-length robe of the same iridescent white, inlaid with gold and silver.†   (source)
  • A huge iridescent bubble seemed to enfold me.†   (source)
  • I stretch a twelve-by-eight-foot canvas and wash it with an iridescent blue gouache—like the Virgin Mary's robes in gaudy church paintings.†   (source)
  • The sea was an iridescent blue.†   (source)
  • She tried to recapture the years and hold them up for inspection, so she could pinpoint the transformation, but they slipped through her fingers and slid down the dishes, hidden under the iridescent bubbles that broke with the slightest movement of her hand.†   (source)
  • Something like a bank of mist, but shot with quick iridescent flashes, hung over us.†   (source)
  • There had been magnificent tigers, square jawed knights, and golden stallions, but of late the smee had favored the shape of an iridescent blue peacock that was prone to highly dramatic displays of his tail whenever he believed its sudden appearance might be to his advantage.†   (source)
  • The third engine idles softly, its deep propeller shaft leaving almost no wake in the iridescent water.†   (source)
  • The lace tablecloth, a cobweb of grapes and vine leaves iridescent in the candlelight, had cost $2,000.†   (source)
  • She saw iridescent veins of moonlight streak across the metal and then fade, as if the steel were reflecting a fireworks show in the pale sky above.†   (source)
  • They've hair like spun gold; it hangs in waves that tumble down their iridescent backs.†   (source)
  • She put on an iridescent dress with nubbly flecks in the material, which somehow matched her silvery heels.†   (source)
  • There were no soaring towers of a church reaching for the sky; instead there were black shapes of irregular foliage shivering beneath the light of iridescent clouds.†   (source)
  • Iridescent feathers grew from his head, spreading down across his shoulders and back.†   (source)
  • In the late-day light, its maroon shell shone iridescent as mother-of-pearl.†   (source)
  • They were all colors of blue—powdery sky blue, dark night blue, shimmering with almost black iridescent light, and mountain blue.†   (source)
  • The sun sparked iridescence from their purple necks as they pecked.†   (source)
  • She scrutinized him from behind, trying to see iridescences, auras. they had some time before he was on.†   (source)
  • Clouds like creamy blobs, iridescent Disneyesque confections, moved serenely toward the ocean, sending dappled patterns of light and shade across our grassy little promontory where Sophie talked about Nathan, and I listened, and the turmoil of traffic on the distant Brooklyn avenues drummed with an intermittent booming sound, very faint, like some harmless, ceremonial cannonade.†   (source)
  • But other birds soon took his place: big, black-bodied cockatoos with yellow tails, ripping bark off the eucalyptus in search of grubs; gang-gangs dangling upside-down from the flowers of the lantana; and iridescent painted-finches, splashing merrily in the shallow waters of the creek.†   (source)
  • To our right and above us the great cloud at the base of the Tails made iridescent lace in the sky.†   (source)
  • How dry, how iridescent, like diamonds, was each shovelful.†   (source)
  • The bud came apart in his hand, its layers like small velvet shells, still iridescent, the shriveled flower inside.†   (source)
  • And Maxon's necklace and earrings for her were iridescent, gently rounded, and perfect.†   (source)
  • I hold it out on my palm and examine its iridescent surface in the sunlight.†   (source)
  • There was a blare of noise; an iridescent film clung to my glasses like oil.†   (source)
  • The metal's iridescent color rippled like water as it met her scales.†   (source)
  • I adjusted my favorite tiara and smoothed out my iridescent gray dress.†   (source)
  • "There!" cried Miss Boon as the entry began to hum and glow with a soft iridescence.†   (source)
  • For a moment, the emerald irises glowed iridescent.†   (source)
  • He hefted Zar'roc, the sword's iridescent blade shimmering.†   (source)
  • Iridescent oils are displayed with amulets, talismans, incense.†   (source)
  • The iridescent blue blade cut through bone and flesh as if they were equally insubstantial.†   (source)
  • He surfaced like a bullet, iridescent, grinning, splashing water.†   (source)
  • Vlad bet that his eyes had flashed that weird iridescent purple again, and for once, he was glad.†   (source)
  • The water shines with iridescent scales.†   (source)
  • Though they wore no garments, the women were clad in an iridescent tattoo of a dragon.†   (source)
  • She twisted the last cylinder's top and shook an iridescent powder into her hand.†   (source)
  • Henry held up the vial that had contained the iridescent purple liquid.†   (source)
  • I sit back on my bed cross-legged and find myself rubbing the smooth iridescent surface of the pearl back and forth against my lips.†   (source)
  • The dancer was there, smiling at him and bowing for him, changing from splendid orange to icy green to iridescent purple.†   (source)
  • Towering overhead, a giant American flag snapped in the breeze, its colors glowing almost iridescent in the last smoldering light.†   (source)
  • The water was iridescent with the universe of fishes floating on their sides, killed by the dynamite of stealthy fishermen, and all the birds of the earth and the water circled above them with metallic cries.†   (source)
  • "But every once in a while you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare."†   (source)
  • Every morning before I was out the main gate I had one last impression that was both ordinary and unforgettable: a pyramid of turtles; the iridescent snout of a mandrill; the stately silence of a giraffe; the obese, yellow open mouth of a hippo; the beak-and-claw climbing of a macaw parrot up a wire fence; the greeting claps of a shoebill's bill; the senile, lecherous expression of a camel.†   (source)
  • It was a river of iridescent onyx—Mrs. Shigemura described it in Japanese—the salient feature of her physical being, as prominent and extraordinary as baldness might have been in another girl of the same age.†   (source)
  • In the silence, broken only by the exaggerated oosh shoo of my own breath, I watched shoals of tiny iridescent fish, and larger black-and-white fish, that stared at me with blank, inquisitive faces, and gently swaying anemones filtering the gentle currents of their tiny, unseen haul.†   (source)
  • Maybe millions: Cathedral, Mayonnaise, Pomegranate, Mississippi, Neapolitan, Hippopotamus, Silky, Terrifying, Iridescent, Tickle, Sneeze, Wish, Worry.†   (source)
  • A precious stone of various colors and varieties, the finest characterized by its iridescent reflection of light, and formerly believed to possess magical virtues. tinder, n. [A.†   (source)
  • I watched it sweep along the marble floor, shining palest gray, its overlapping scales faintly iridescent.†   (source)
  • He drifted near sleep like a buoy off a shore, until sometime in the night the great rock python Kaa materialized and looped his iridescent coils around Edgar's legs and chest.†   (source)
  • But when he saw himself and his whole family fastened onto a sheet of iridescent metal for an eternity, he was mute with stupefaction.†   (source)
  • The blue sword flashed bright and iridescent, stark against the wall of black clouds building in the west.†   (source)
  • Next to the table hung a golden sheath-the same color as Glaedr's scales-and a matching sword with a blade the color of iridescent bronze.†   (source)
  • Snapping into close formation, tap-dancing in a wash of iridescent arcs, all symmetry and drill precision, then fanning open in kaleidoscopic bursts, and she passed a question along the aisle to Miles, who sat at the far end of the foursome.†   (source)
  • Together, they crossed back to her bench, causing a cluster of pigeons, their feathers iridescent, to burst into flight.†   (source)
  • But the bird was almost out of sight now and nothing showed on the surface of the water but some patches of yellow, sun-bleached Sargasso weed and the purple, formalized, iridescent gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war floating dose beside the boat.†   (source)
  • Away from the town, east and west, buoys marked prohibited stretches of water, and within their confines the iridescent wings of marshflies shimmered over the water weeds floating thick and tangled there.†   (source)
  • And as it was on Zar'roc, the color was iridescent; as Eragon moved the sword about, the color would shimmer and shift, displaying any of the many tones of blue present on Saphira herself.†   (source)
  • Among that entire domestic fauna, the only one to have any importance in the collective memory of the family was a rabbit Miguel had once brought home, a poor ordinary rabbit that the dogs had constantly licked until all its hair fell out and it became the only bald member of its species, boasting an iridescent coat that gave it the appearance of a large-eared reptile.†   (source)
  • I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for a many-colored and luminescent thing, thinking that a highly reflective surface conveyed the power to walk on water.†   (source)
  • This Eragon was garbed like a prince, in fine cloth and armor-though tarnished by the grime of war-and in his right hand he wielded a blade of iridescent red.†   (source)
  • And the soft, mortal woman had settled into one of the velvet chairs by the fire, with the rustling and iridescence of her taffeta dress surrounding her like part of the mystery of her, of her dispassionate eyes which watched us now, the fever of her pale face.†   (source)
  • She remembered her wild drives to the Ohio as a young woman, the strangely iridescent skin of the water, the sheerness of the limestone banks, the wind lifting her hair.†   (source)
  • In his left hand, he held a metal shield, and in his right, an iridescent sword that Eragon recognized as the blade of a Rider.†   (source)
  • She had the frame and the material pinned to the edges of the frame and the needle with the wood handle that she used to string the beads onto the material, iridescent beads to decorate a dress, and she never really wondered who would wear it.†   (source)
  • Frothy mounds of iridescent bubbles built up around his wrists as he pushed and pulled the material across the full length of the knobby board.†   (source)
  • The syringe filled with a liquid—purple in color, and iridescent, reminiscent of that strange color his eyes changed whenever he touched a glyph—and D'Ablo boiled over with cruel, joyous laughter.†   (source)
  • Lately, whenever Vlad would hover in front of his best friend or open the Encyclopedia Vampyricain front of him, inciting his eyes to flash iridescent purple, Henry's mood would shift, and then he'd sulk for days.†   (source)
  • That noon, along with my Daily Worker, I had been inspired to buy a tube of plastic bubble material—the kind commonly used by children now, although then a novelty on the market—and once back in my office, I had blown up half a dozen of these fragile, lovely, iridescent globes, all the while anticipating their adventure upon the wind with the greedy suspense of one at the brink of some long-denied sexual blessing.†   (source)
  • There they were, feeding all over the yard and every yard, iridescently black and multiplied at our feet, bound for the North.†   (source)
  • The so-called blindworms were translucent, iridescent things the size of large rattlesnakes and slimy-soft like angleworms; I was glad they were dead.†   (source)
  • He was counting over the platters the old woman now set out on the counter, each heaped with shrimp in their shells boiled to iridescence, like mounds of honeysuckle flowers.†   (source)
  • A flock of pigeons started from the deck of the tank house and flew around and settled again and strutted to the edge to look over; white pigeons and blue pigeons and grays, with iridescent wings.†   (source)
  • To which Mama was too obedient even to say yes, but only sat and kept her long hands folded on the bottle-fly iridescence of the dress the old woman had picked for her to wear.†   (source)
  • So the Christmas came and he and Henry rode the forty miles to Sutpen's Hundred, with Henry still talking, still keeping distended and light and iridescent with steady breathing that fairy balloon-vacuum in which the three of them existed, lived, moved even maybe, in attitudes without flesh—himself and the friend and the sister whom the friend had never seen and (though Henry did not know it) had not even thought about yet but only listened about from behind the more urgent thinking,…†   (source)
  • … Grimacing so violently his black beard twitched in several places simultaneously, twitched and caught the sunlight in a skein of drawn pitch, pin-point glints and iridescence, the dumpy, ageing Jew stopped at the corner of Avenue C and Ninth Street, looked west into the sun when he meant to go east, and opened the trigger-taut button on his dull alpaca coat.†   (source)
  • Ham at one end of the table and fried chicken at the other, collards swimming richly in pot liquor iridescent with grease, snap beans in mountains on brightly flowered porcelain, fried squash, stewed okra, carrots in cream sauce thick enough to cut.†   (source)
  • Throughout she kept up the part of a young man, smoking cigarettes and talking with a spirited ease that often had a little mockery in it; and yet it was all iridescent with the rays of desire and transformed, as it reached my senses, into a charming seduction.†   (source)
  • …California; the blasted fiend-world of the desert, and the terrific boles of trees, tunnelled for the passage of a coach; water that fell from a mountain-top in a smoking noiseless coil, internal boiling lakes flung skywards by the punctual respiration of the earth, the multitudinous torture in form of granite oceans, gouged depthlessly by canyons, and iridescent with the daily chameleon-shift beyond man, beyond nature, of terrific colors, below the un-human iridescence of the sky.†   (source)
  • And yet the voices in the house, behind the sprays of mimosa and almond-blossom, and from under the piles of iridescent cushions, simply trilled and screamed in a sort of ecstasy: "There must be more money!†   (source)
  • …ever upward sunward, tugs its tenuous prisoner arteries and veins and prisoning in its turn that spark, that dream which, as the glob, and complete instant of its freedom mirrors and repeats (repeats? creates, reduces to a fragile evanescent iridescent sphere) all of space and time and massy earth, relicts the seething and anonymous miasmal mass which in all the years of time has taught itself no boon of death but only how to recreate, renew; and dies, is gone, vanished: nothing—but is…†   (source)
  • …California; the blasted fiend-world of the desert, and the terrific boles of trees, tunnelled for the passage of a coach; water that fell from a mountain-top in a smoking noiseless coil, internal boiling lakes flung skywards by the punctual respiration of the earth, the multitudinous torture in form of granite oceans, gouged depthlessly by canyons, and iridescent with the daily chameleon-shift beyond man, beyond nature, of terrific colors, below the un-human iridescence of the sky.†   (source)
  • It was still there, like an iridescent bubble that floats for a while unbroken.†   (source)
  • And, as I say, the back part of the eye, tough, iridescent stuff it is, wouldn't go at all.†   (source)
  • Then the sun rose, a ray of yellow gold stole across the sky, and the sky was iridescent.†   (source)
  • He played with the idea, and grew wilful; tossed it into the air and transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.†   (source)
  • The drakes were handsome fellows, with pinkish grey bodies, their heads and necks covered with iridescent green feathers which grew close and full, changing to blue like a peacock's neck.†   (source)
  • Well, all that was clear to him amounted to this, that the whole scheme had burst up, like an iridescent soap-bubble, under the touch of a reasoned inquiry.†   (source)
  • The quiet, glassy, iridescent surface of this lake that now to both seemed, not so much like water as oil—like molten glass that, of enormous bulk and weight, resting upon the substantial earth so very far below.†   (source)
  • It was of beautiful hard white stucco, but its pillars and vaulting could scarcely be seen behind coloured rags, iridescent balls, chandeliers of opaque pink glass, and murky photographs framed crookedly.†   (source)
  • The huge pool of blood in front of her was already assuming the iridescence of coagulation; and when the sun rose a hundred prismatic hues were reflected from it.†   (source)
  • Paradox is the poison flower of quietism, the iridescent sheen of a putrefied mind, the greatest depravity of all.†   (source)
  • I saw bronze rivers lapping marble shores, and great birds that soared through the air, parti-colored birds with iridescent plumage.†   (source)
  • The delicate iridescence of the London air gave the softness of a pastel to the gray stone of the buildings; and in the wharfs and storehouses there was the severity of grace of a Japanese print.†   (source)
  • It probably had no real subject, but instead wandered about freely in intellectual realms, broaching this and that, but essentially it was aimed at proving in dismal fashion that all life's intellectual phenomena are ambiguous, that nature is equivocal and any grand concepts abstracted from her are strategically useless, and at demonstrating how iridescent are the robes that the Absolute dons on earth.†   (source)
  • …a quarter of an hour; and, sitting down, just like anyone else, on an iron chair, paid for his ticket with that hand which Philippe VII had so often held in his own, while we began our game upon the lawn, scattering the pigeons, whose beautiful, iridescent bodies (shaped like hearts and, surely, the lilacs of the feathered kingdom) took refuge as in so many sanctuaries, one on the great basin of stone, on which its beak, as it disappeared below the rim, conferred the part, assigned the…†   (source)
  • And so, for a whole year, he sought to accumulate the most exquisite specimens that he could find of textile and embroidered work, getting the dainty Delhi muslins, finely wrought with gold-thread palmates, and stitched over with iridescent beetles' wings; the Dacca gauzes, that from their transparency are known in the East as "woven air," and "running water," and "evening dew"; strange figured cloths from Java; elaborate yellow Chinese hangings; books bound in tawny satins or fair…†   (source)
  • …of this order had brought him once again to the memory of the time when some one had spoken to him of Odette as of a 'kept' woman, and when, once again, he had amused himself with contrasting that strange personification, the 'kept' woman—an iridescent mixture of unknown and demoniacal qualities, embroidered, as in some fantasy of Gustave Moreau, with poison-dripping flowers, interwoven with precious jewels—with that Odette upon whose face he had watched the passage of the same…†   (source)
  • …but, either because a ray of sunlight had gleamed through it or because my own shifting vision had drawn across the window, whose colours died away and were rekindled by turns, a rare and transient fire—the next instant it had taken on all the iridescence of a peacock's tail, then shook and wavered in a flaming and fantastic shower, distilled and dropping from the groin of the dark and rocky vault down the moist walls, as though it were along the bed of some rainbow grotto of sinuous…†   (source)
  • Some one had had the happy idea of giving me, to distract me on evenings when I seemed abnormally wretched, a magic lantern, which used to be set on top of my lamp while we waited for dinner-time to come: in the manner of the master-builders and glass-painters of gothic days it substituted for the opaqueness of my walls an impalpable iridescence, supernatural phenomena of many colours, in which legends were depicted, as on a shifting and transitory window.†   (source)
  • Iridescent bubbles of dank subterranean breath rose from the sweating sod beside the waiting-maid's feet as she trod, hissing as they burst and expanded away to join the vapoury firmament above.†   (source)
  • Rearward of the structure which graced the entrance-way—a purely Grecian pile—he stood upon a broad esplanade paved with polished stone; around him a restless exclamatory multitude, in gayest colors, relieved against the iridescent spray flying crystal-white from fountains; before him, off to the southwest, dustless paths radiated out into a garden, and beyond that into a forest, over which rested a veil of pale-blue vapor.†   (source)
  • Suddenly these two wheeled out from the mass of dancers, dived into one of the pools of the heath, and came out somewhere beneath into an iridescent hollow, arched with rainbows.†   (source)
  • That Bathsheba was a firm and positive girl, far less inconsequent than her fellows, had been the very lung of his hope; for he had held that these qualities would lead her to adhere to a straight course for consistency's sake, and accept him, though her fancy might not flood him with the iridescent hues of uncritical love.†   (source)
  • The sleek skin was a smooth, deep blue, with a vivid slash of green shining with brilliant iridescence beneath the jaw.†   (source)
  • Thither the extremely large wains bring foison of the fields, flaskets of cauliflowers, floats of spinach, pineapple chunks, Rangoon beans, strikes of tomatoes, drums of figs, drills of Swedes, spherical potatoes and tallies of iridescent kale, York and Savoy, and trays of onions, pearls of the earth, and punnets of mushrooms and custard marrows and fat vetches and bere and rape and red green yellow brown russet sweet big bitter ripe pomellated apples and chips of strawberries and…†   (source)
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