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  • There was a quality to this pellucid first light and the vivid colors that made it impossible to imagine trouble.†  (source)
  • I recalled once more (how many times had I summoned their sound?) the pellucid indecencies Leslie had uttered, and as I did so—the viewfinder of my mind reshaping each crevice of her moist and succulent lips, the orthodontically fashioned perfection of the sparkling incisors, even a cunning fleck of foam at the edge of the orifice—it seemed the dizziest pipe dream that this very evening, sometime before the sun should fulfill its oriental circuit and rise again on Sheepshead Bay, that mouth would be—no, I could not let myself think about that slippery-sweet mouth and its impending employments.†  (source)
  • They started to follow the stream: the clear pellucid stream that tumbled down from the hills in alternate rapids, waterfalls and pools.†  (source)
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  • The poetry was all around her, pellucid and lifting from side to side, "Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone...."†  (source)
  • It was pellucid.†  (source)
  • Two smoking globes of brine welled from the pellucid depths of her pure eyes and fell with a hot splash on his bronzed hand.†  (source)
  • Here was a rude flounce into the pellucid sentimentality of his sad attachment to Sue.†  (source)
  • I could imagine under the pellucid emptiness of the sky these four men imprisoned in the solitude of the sea, the lonely sun, regardless of the speck of life, ascending the clear curve of the heaven as if to gaze ardently from a greater height at his own splendour reflected in the still ocean.†  (source)
  • Down their sides flowed numberless waterfalls, which went on their way in brawling but pellucid streams.†  (source)
  • Successive nations perchance have drank at, admired, and fathomed it, and passed away, and still its water is green and pellucid as ever.†  (source)
  • The water in the fountain, pellucid as crystal, was alive with myriads of gold and silver fishes, twinkling and darting through it like so many living jewels.†  (source)
  • He stood and saw the ripples roll Pellucid o'er a pebbly shoal.†  (source)
  • Now came I (and with fear I bid my strain Record the marvel) where the souls were all Whelm'd underneath, transparent, as through glass Pellucid the frail stem.†  (source)
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