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so thin that light passes through it- Clary tugged a little self-consciously at the diaphanous material of the silver dress.Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass
- A meek shy light appeared in the East, where stretched a diaphanous fleece of white furrowed vapor.Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
- Some auras were just wisps of diaphanous tinted smoke, others were dark spots and sheets of solid muddy colors.Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
- The gold became a diaphanous, glittering globe.D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
- To me, a barbarous Englishman, has been entrusted the revelation of this diaphanous mystery.Jorge Luis Borges -- The Garden of Forking Paths
- Her dress was white and silver too, as diaphanous as a sheet of ice; one could glimpse her body through it, though not clearly.Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
- Layers of pale floral ruffling have sprouted all over her, and wave from her shoulders like diaphanous wings.Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
- But for d'Artagnan all aspects were clothed happily, all ideas wore a smile, all shades were diaphanous.Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
- He tugged on it, and a diaphanous membrane unspooled from within the wall.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- Langdon took a deep breath and turned to face the eerie collection of diaphanous vaults.Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
- The breeze rustled leaves in a dry and diaphanous distance.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- I see the world through a diaphanous curtain of blood.Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave
- The mists rose like layers of diaphanous scarves above Victoria Harbour as the huge jet circled for the final approach into Kai Tak Airport.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- She leans down long enough to retrieve her diaphanous shawl and disappears, her arm raised so that the shawl trails behind her, a shimmering banner.Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
- It looked particularly bad, for example, on Frau Stohr, whose arms were too spongy—diaphanous clothes were simply not for her.Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- I pulled back the thin diaphanous curtain that covered the windows and spotted my friend Ayana outside with her mother.Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore
- What had been leanness in her youth had become transparency in her maturity; and this diaphaneity allowed the angel to be seen.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- 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.Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
- 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.Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
- Then my gaze slid over the people to the blaze of green beyond the diaphanous curtains, and I felt as if I were sitting in the window of an enormous department store.Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar