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I could throw in some sacrificial virgins as well, with metal breastplates and silver ankle chains and diaphanous vestments.† (source)
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I pulled back the thin diaphanous curtain that covered the windows and spotted my friend Ayana outside with her mother.† (source)
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Langdon took a deep breath and turned to face the eerie collection of diaphanous vaults.† (source)
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I see the world through a diaphanous curtain of blood.† (source)
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Werner's favorites are five faded frescoes on the ceilings of the grandest upper rooms, where bees as big as children float against blue backdrops, big lazy drones and workers with diaphanous wings—where, above a hexagonal bathtub, a single nine-foot-long queen, with multiple eyes and a golden-furred abdomen, curls across the ceiling.† (source)
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Among the strangers, he and Pippa were two of the only really unique or interesting-looking people there: she, like a fairy in her gauzy-sleeved, diaphanous green; he, elegant and endearing in his midnight blue double-breasted, his beautiful old shoes from Peal and Co. "I —" Hopelessly, I looked around.† (source)
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I feel at times like a stone hurtling through diaphanous mist, unable to grab hold, unable to slow myself, yet unwilling to abandon the ride I'm on.† (source)
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The diaphaneity of Babet contrasted with the grossness of Gueulemer.† (source)
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And at that moment, from a door in the rear, there emerged a tall, slim and rather pale-faced woman of about thirty-eight or forty—very erect, very executive, very intelligent and graceful-looking—diaphanously and yet modestly garbed, who said, with a rather wan and yet encouraging smile: "Oh, hello, Oscar, it's you, is it?† (source)
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Some auras were just wisps of diaphanous tinted smoke, others were dark spots and sheets of solid muddy colors.† (source)
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What had been leanness in her youth had become transparency in her maturity; and this diaphaneity allowed the angel to be seen.† (source)
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He had dreamed that Annie Wilkes was Scheherazade, her solid body clad in diaphanous robes, her big feet stuffed into pink sequined slippers with curly toes as she rode on her magic carpet and chanted the incantatory phrases which open the doors of the best stories.† (source)
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Her Majesty was three times the size of her largest soldiers—a towering mass of black chitin and barbed appendages, with diaphanous oval wings folded against her back.† (source)
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He tugged on it, and a diaphanous membrane unspooled from within the wall.† (source)
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She was as beautiful as ever, her dress a diaphanous mixture of silver and gold, her hair like rosy copper as she arranged it gently over one white shoulder.† (source)
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The mists rose like layers of diaphanous scarves above Victoria Harbour as the huge jet circled for the final approach into Kai Tak Airport.† (source)
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