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  • His hair was greasy and matted to his forehead, and up close he looked pale, almost translucent.†   (source)
  • After another ten days, the snowflakes turned thin and translucent.†   (source)
  • The skin on her face was waxen, paper thin and translucent even in the gray light.†   (source)
  • I could have made the trees bloom fresh at any time, but this was something I had come to enjoy, the bubbling sugars, the translucent jewel colors, the storing up of a good season in my jars.†   (source)
  • The first that I saw were tiny, translucent shrimp, hardly half an inch long.†   (source)
  • What's so important about this?" the Special asked, shaking the container and trying to peer through its translucent plastic.†   (source)
  • Bod could not see her, but there was an extra shadow beneath the hawthorn tree, and, as he approached it, the shadow resolved itself into something pearlescent and translucent in the early-morning light.†   (source)
  • A part of Tariq still alive inside her, sprouting tiny arms, growing translucent hands.†   (source)
  • The cell's six narrow windows were fitted with a muddy brown translucent glass, and the lights inside the cell stayed on twenty-four hours a day.†   (source)
  • He slapped his hand against the translucent column.†   (source)
  • It won't add distinction to my almost translucent eyebrows, nor add weight to my bony frame.†   (source)
  • Their huge wingspans-the delicate pink membranes stretched across them-so thin they were translucent-everything reinforced the delicacy of the dactyls.†   (source)
  • Snow lay piled upon the translucent roof, casting patterns of sunshine throughout.†   (source)
  • By looking at her, I could see where my mother had gotten her beautiful dark skin, extremely white teeth, and the translucent creases on her neck.†   (source)
  • He was the color of a gravestone; light was both absorbed and reflected by his skin, as with a pearl, so that he appeared translucent at times—especially at his temples, where his blue veins showed through his skin (as though, in addition to his extraordinary size, there were other evidence that he was born too soon)… His vocal cords had not developed fully, or else his voice had been injured by the rock dust of his family's business.†   (source)
  • His escort, the guard with the scar, now led Langdon through the rows of translucent cubicles.†   (source)
  • He has moist red lips; pale, almost translucent cheeks like fillets of raw sole; and an instinct for correctness that rarely fails him.†   (source)
  • I tear my eyes away from Chris, from the outside of him to the inside, from apparent to hidden, because on the screen I can see his brain encased in translucent bone, glowing a sickly yellowish green.†   (source)
  • Bibwit Harte, blue-green veins pulsing anxiously beneath the translucent skin of his learned head, waited on the shore of the Pool of Tears with two spirit-danes hobbled at his side.†   (source)
  • The white chenille bedspreads are so worn they are almost translucent.†   (source)
  • Her skin is thin, almost translucent, and her wavy silver hair is gathered at the nape of her neck in a bun.†   (source)
  • I focused my eyes on his through the white translucent liner Hal kept for a curtain—he was a dark shape with a hundred small pinpoints of light surrounding him.†   (source)
  • The skin is paler than either Ashima's or his own, translucent enough to show slim green veins at the temples.†   (source)
  • It was alive with moonlight, translucent, a shard of crystal so thin that it seemed almost to vanish when seen edge-on.†   (source)
  • He's pale, practically translucent.†   (source)
  • Her skin is so pale as to be translucent and I can see the fire glow through her flesh.†   (source)
  • Her skin was too pale, almost translucent, as if the voltage had drained her of more than energy.†   (source)
  • Carlton was a frail man in his late eighties, with skin so pale it looked almost translucent.†   (source)
  • Instead he noticed how very tired Bean looked, his whole body bent with weariness, his eyes dark from lack of sleep; and yet his skin was still soft and translucent, the skin of a child, the soft curved cheek, the slender limbs of a little boy.†   (source)
  • Cinders, coarse gravel, and granite boulders covered much of the ice, but every now and then the trail would cross a patch of bare glacier-a translucent, frozen medium that glistened like polished onyx.†   (source)
  • This is worse, even, than standing in the translucent hospital gown at the evaluations, under the glare of the fluorescent lights.†   (source)
  • The chicken stew contained chunks of carrot and potato, and translucent segments of onion; the meat was slightly fibrous but good.†   (source)
  • It was translucent.†   (source)
  • Her skin is pale, almost translucent, and it's stretched too tight across her face.†   (source)
  • He looked exhausted, and his skin was so pale that it was almost translucent.†   (source)
  • The sun shone behind the thin membranes, turning them translucent and silhouetting the dark veins.†   (source)
  • Easier to find were the dikonko, edible locusts and crickets, whose plump abdomens were shrunk translucent like balloons half-filled with water.†   (source)
  • Pale, almost translucent skin stretched over protruding ribs and knobby joints.†   (source)
  • I watch ns the dense forest shifts from chrome yellow to a translucent saffron and then slowly fades through ocher to umber to gloom.†   (source)
  • My skin could be pretty — it was very clear, almost translucent-looking — but it all depended on color.†   (source)
  • She was small and frail, with skin almost translucent and made whiter by the bright fluorescent lights overhead.†   (source)
  • The skin becomes almost translucent, the eye sockets dark, so that the sufferer takes on the appearance of a martyr in medieval paintings.†   (source)
  • He was holding a gleaming object, translucent, its edges black and smooth as obsidian.†   (source)
  • His hair was the pale, nearly translucent color of spun silk.†   (source)
  • A smooth, pale, translucent white.†   (source)
  • Her abdomen was a pulsing translucent sac filled with glowing eggs.†   (source)
  • It does not have a power cord, but there is a narrow translucent plastic tube emerg. ing from a hatch on the rear, spiraling across the cargo pallet and the floor, and plugged into a crudely installed fiber-optics socket above the head of the sleeping Vitaly Chernobyl.†   (source)
  • Blue veins like lumpy knitting running up her translucent shins.†   (source)
  • Pale and translucent in places, it gathered thick and hard around her hands, making it look as if she were wearing metal gauntlets.†   (source)
  • It was oddly translucent, the blade clear as crystal, sharp as a shard of glass, the hilt set with red stones.†   (source)
  • The trees in the neighbor's field had all donned translucent mantles and each now stood unique but unified in their presentation.†   (source)
  • I see her there, so pale she might as well be translucent, sitting in a wheelchair.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, the passengers in their boredom held swimming contests, organized hunting expeditions, and returned with live iguanas that they split open from top to bottom and sewed up again with baling needles after removing the clusters of soft, translucent eggs that they strung over the railings to dry.†   (source)
  • Lilly's translucent eyelids fluttered open.†   (source)
  • It was a massive chair carved from a single piece of Hagal quartz — blue-green translucency shot through with streaks of yellow fire.†   (source)
  • Some of those precious stones are of colors that are familiar to us: the rich violet of amethyst, the brilliant green of emerald, the translucent gold of topaz, the depthless black of onyx.†   (source)
  • They were darkly spotted, and the skin, translucent in appearance, was prominently veined.†   (source)
  • Instead of being dark brown like everyone else's, my mother's eyes were a translucent gray, and mine are just the same.†   (source)
  • She had brought along her pottery, her silver, heirlooms like the kimonos Granny had brought from Japan, tea sets, lacquered tables, andone fine old set of china, blue and white porcelain, almost translucent.†   (source)
  • His entire face is covered by a translucent mask.†   (source)
  • But it was her eyes, wide apart, darkly translucent, like ale held to the light, that made her immediately likable, that at once announced her lack of suspicion, her considered and yet so easily triggered kindliness.†   (source)
  • She glanced down at the top of the baby's head, at the translucent pulse beneath his fontanelle.†   (source)
  • The canvas is taut and nearly translucent--sunlight filters through the material and seams, illuminating the largest candy stand of all.†   (source)
  • Other than his eyes, he has no more color to him than the translucent spiders that lurk in Serra's catacombs.†   (source)
  • Her last glove was thin and translucent, and she could see the Band-Aid through it, directly under the Ebola blood.†   (source)
  • Tiny, tiny fingernails, still soft, translucent as the daylight moon.†   (source)
  • Their clothes clung to them like old skin, translucent and drooping.†   (source)
  • The man wondered a little if it were only the glow of the sunset that lit her face with such shining beauty; he noted how the fires of it flowed over her bright, blown hair and kindled its colour, how it lingered in the clear eyes, and flamed upon the white neck and throat till they had almost the translucence of pearl.†   (source)
  • After half a minute, the creek bed dropped six inches and he fell again, only now he went completely under and got a glimpse of small silvery translucent fish as his head went down.†   (source)
  • The pink, translucent shell of her ear.†   (source)
  • It doesn't work so well with the translucent skin, plus, I suck with the sitting still.†   (source)
  • Her hair is so fine that her scalp shows through, the texture of skin, hair, and net almost translucent.†   (source)
  • One Friday afternoon, three translucent ladies knocked at the door to the big house on the corner.†   (source)
  • The only sounds were hushed ones, the bloated gurgle of the stream, the respirating hum of the tall grass and shrubs behind him, the apathetic moaning of the dumb, translucent waves.†   (source)
  • Candles sputtered into flame in the corners of the room, and what seemed to be a translucent orchestra of strange musical instruments shifted in and out of focus, playing themselves, while shadowy couples went spinning and gliding across the now stone floor.†   (source)
  • A couple of the crime-scene professionals were already wearing translucent rubber gloves, looking for evidence, taking notes on spiral pads.†   (source)
  • Through the translucent oval in the envelope she can see the block letters "Notice of Eviction."†   (source)
  • He was a stunted little man with knobby knees and a balding head and a nose like a used pencil eraser, and he was stark naked and slimed head to toe with sticky, translucent gel.†   (source)
  • New kettles, new toasters … We've already had three new rubbish bins this year—dark green, then chrome, and now yellow translucent plastic.†   (source)
  • The fine, translucent coat of hair on his chest and abdomen looked as if it had drifted up from the mother lode of hair at his pubis.†   (source)
  • The river glowed, translucent and sparkling with the colored light cast by the trees.†   (source)
  • The skin on his hands and face was milky white, almost translucent, showing the branching veins.†   (source)
  • Five pale red lines bloomed on the white cheek, glowing like fire beneath translucent stone.†   (source)
  • Her skin seemed nearly translucent, the blue veins showing like a tangle of knitting yarn, her lips bloodless and cracking like ice.†   (source)
  • As she came from the room, I noticed that her translucent skin was all flushed.†   (source)
  • She turned the arm over and studied the translucent skin of Grace's wrist and the delta of veins that coursed beneath it.†   (source)
  • She bought tiger root from Jamaica to scrape, a cluster of indigo, translucent crimson seeds, and lastly, a tiny burlap pouch of herbs.†   (source)
  • I was too intent to keep track, but, at length, a sort of pinkness invaded the translucent blue skin of her cheek.†   (source)
  • But Butch had a laugh like the edges of an April sunset—translucent and mystifying.†   (source)
  • Her skin was flawless and so fair as to be translucent.†   (source)
  • He handed the smooth disk of pearly, translucent stone to Tam.†   (source)
  • The clocks ticked on, the crackled, the translucent candles dripped.†   (source)
  • The dinner service, with an artist's design burned in blue and gold into a translucent white china, had cost $2,500.†   (source)
  • And, Legolas, when the torches are kindled and men walk on the sandy floors under the echoing domes, ah! then, Legolas, gems and crystals and veins of precious ore glint in the polished walls; and the light glows through folded marbles, shell-like, translucent as the living hands of Queen Galadriel.†   (source)
  • I could see it lifting from the beach stranded jellyfish, which would hang off its fingers like translucent laundry, and the child would not be stung.†   (source)
  • But they were translucent, too, as if they were crystal.†   (source)
  • Her calves and ankles were thin, but her feet especially so, the tops of them shockingly bony, reedy and translucent.†   (source)
  • He walked to the fifth booth, parted the curtain, and stepped inside, adjusting his eyes to the light of a single candle that glowed from the other side of the translucent drape separating priest from sinner.†   (source)
  • The water, though full of light, was translucent.†   (source)
  • People tended to look at the man—tall and cadaverously thin, that translucent kind of blond where you can see the plates of his skull—and picture him living like a hermit: no wife, no kids, no friends.†   (source)
  • A carved tower that resembled the ruins of some ancient castle, the mask of a woman's face embedded in translucent rose-colored glass, what appeared to be a bottle that flashed with vivid, changing colors with the heat of her hand.†   (source)
  • Little remained of his hair and his skin was pale and translucent, but his blue eyes shone brightly behind his ugly steel spectacles when Gabriel entered with a child in each arm.†   (source)
  • They are ancient paper lanterns, translucent, unlit, strung across the courtyard, too fragile to move — though when he sees Ralph, his father, still a brave man, tries to speak.†   (source)
  • Our tiny world with its translucent walls confined us and there seemed to be no way up any more.†   (source)
  • In the candlelight Hazzard's hands shone with the silky, translucent patina of age and yet they were remarkably deft.†   (source)
  • The ground is damp and chill, she smells woodsmoke, and through her eyelids' translucency is filtered the incredible radiance of the foliage afire.†   (source)
  • The sky was the color of wet gray aluminum and there was no indication on the translucent shield where the sun might be, so I couldn't tell direction.†   (source)
  • Beside the basin Peter was flat on his face, his head, almost up to his ears, dunked in the clear translucent pool.†   (source)
  • The summer moon was hidden, the smog was glorious--blood red and the deep translucent brown of soy sauce.†   (source)
  • Presently I put the book down and the light out and watched the moving silhouette on that translucent silk.†   (source)
  • There was a quality of-translucency?†   (source)
  • Oh Mary, Mary, Mary, resting one already translucent, spinster's hand lightly upon the back of her veiled head, and with the other, so clenching one of Mary's wrists that she left a bracelet of bruise.†   (source)
  • And I myself preferred not to see him in strong sunshine, for his pale, membranic skin was no barrier to the light, which pierced deep into the flesh and illumined it to a hideous translucency.†   (source)
  • All seemed one weight, one matter-until as she put down her head and closed her eyes and the light slipped under her lids, she felt this matter a translucent one, the river, herself, the sky all vessels which the sun filled.†   (source)
  • Frosty white and translucent… like a frozen window.†   (source)
  • Skin of the palest yellow, smooth and translucent, like old, expensive porcelain.†   (source)
  • It was translucent, almost green in tint.†   (source)
  • The face was translucent, pale, sunken, yet almost perfectly preserved.†   (source)
  • The hairs on her legs were pressed like coiled wires against her translucent white stockings.†   (source)
  • The animal's huge leathery wings, translucent in the sunlight, flapped broadly on both sides of her.†   (source)
  • His skin was very white, marked here and there with old translucent scars.†   (source)
  • He visualized his father's hands, translucent and wind-smeared.†   (source)
  • Her face and arms were pale, almost translucent.†   (source)
  • The additional light and increased play of translucent colors were like the dance of life itself.†   (source)
  • With a fifty-foot head start in a crowd of a million other translucent ghosts, there's just no way.†   (source)
  • The skin on his forehead was thin and translucent.†   (source)
  • The sculpture was fourteen feet high, made of a thin and perfectly translucent form of plexiglass.†   (source)
  • He warmed translucent hands over a glowing brazier where stone eggs smouldered red as coals.†   (source)
  • The sky was a translucent gray, and gusts of a clammy, cold wind kept rattling the screen door.†   (source)
  • Skies as delicate as translucent china, unscarred by cloud or contrail.†   (source)
  • The marble of the statue was so smooth it was almost translucent.†   (source)
  • Where translucent lizards lived behind old paintings.†   (source)
  • If the guy reaches the Street, he's gone-he'll turn into a translucent ghost.†   (source)
  • The pages were thin, almost translucent eggshell parchment, each marked with a stark black rune.†   (source)
  • He looked up at me, his skull grinning through his translucent face.†   (source)
  • The lids seemed almost translucent, and I felt a shudder run through me.†   (source)
  • His cheeks were sunken, and his skin was translucent.†   (source)
  • They passed a blister in the ground—a writhing, translucent bubble the size of a minivan.†   (source)
  • On closer inspection, he saw the woman was faintly translucent.†   (source)
  • It still looked half cooked, its closed eye translucent blue.†   (source)
  • He put his hands out, but they seemed to collide with something translucent, an invisible wall.†   (source)
  • The best ones, the ones she kept, were paper-thin and translucent, no larger than a fingernail.†   (source)
  • It was blue, translucent, round, like a private moon.†   (source)
  • She is translucent, ghostlike again, but it is Ruth.†   (source)
  • / was standing on a translucent platform suspended high over the sewer system.†   (source)
  • Walter's skin was chalk white and translucent.†   (source)
  • Aro's translucent-skinned face filled my head.†   (source)
  • It's a white, translucent mineral composed of potassium nitrate.†   (source)
  • Vertical, they looked like two translucent blue sails.†   (source)
  • They've got the same wide-spaced blue eyes, the same translucent skin and pale lips.†   (source)
  • The woman was softly beautiful, translucent from having eaten potatoes for so long.†   (source)
  • Caius's scowl was so deep it looked like his papery, translucent skin would crease permanently.†   (source)
  • It was translucent and it was salty, and of all people to find it, William had.†   (source)
  • Tentatively, I glanced down again at the translucent surface.†   (source)
  • The blade continued to blaze on the ground, the translucent flames charring a nearby clump of grass.†   (source)
  • It reached only to the floor of the gallows, and it was a translucent white.†   (source)
  • They turn a golden yellow, translucent and sweet.†   (source)
  • The red chokecherries ripen and turn translucent.†   (source)
  • When I force them open again, Ruth has dimmed, becoming almost translucent.†   (source)
  • The Cheshirewulf's powerful form faded as he breathed, growing translucent with each inhale.†   (source)
  • Under his translucent skin, his veins were more green than blue.†   (source)
  • "Another transport is on its way," said Dr. Rasmussen, tapping a translucent screen on his watch.†   (source)
  • They were lovely in the firelight, mother-of-pearl and translucent.†   (source)
  • Illuminated from behind, Roran could see the translucent wings of one of the Ra'zac's mounts.†   (source)
  • His skin was translucent, almost blue under this unnatural light.†   (source)
  • Galbatorix smiled, the edges of his teeth translucent, like fired clay.†   (source)
  • In the daylight, her skin was so translucent, her veins seemed to glow.†   (source)
  • He studied the creatures hovering with translucent wings in a reverent formation.†   (source)
  • In thirty seconds, he was washing her translucent face with wet, pink kisses.†   (source)
  • The plants would grow there like the story, strong and translucent as the stars.†   (source)
  • She is down to a G-string, a glimmering translucent shawl, and a gloriously overflowing brassiere.†   (source)
  • Its prana rose into the infants' translucent skin and passed into their doughy flesh.†   (source)
  • The skin was warm, blue veins branching like rivers beneath his pale translucent skin.†   (source)
  • Golden flame shot through him, turning his skin translucent.†   (source)
  • The wings were broad, with skeletal fingers visible through the translucent skin.†   (source)
  • The animal was almost wholly translucent as it dozed, only appearing now and again when it exhaled.†   (source)
  • Her skin is translucent, much like the fish that feed along the reefs.†   (source)
  • We're looking for a translucent, milky rock that's salty.†   (source)
  • Only the weak light filtering in through the still-translucent dome allowed Tom to see at all.†   (source)
  • Then I covered her translucent skin, gobbing the sticky ice cream on her pretty face.†   (source)
  • The wide membrane became translucent whenever lightning pulsed in jagged shards of light.†   (source)
  • She counted the dark, translucent shapes at a glance: twenty-four of them now.†   (source)
  • They're deadly nightshade berries, translucent, brilliantly red.†   (source)
  • The room was filled with translucent dawn light.†   (source)
  • Translucent orbs of sap encrusted the seam, catching and refracting the light.†   (source)
  • Max followed its progress until his gaze settled on a pale, translucent figure gliding toward him.†   (source)
  • Flaring its translucent wings, the dragon pulled up sharply and hung before the ship.†   (source)
  • And Una had lovely skin too, translucent, even glowing.†   (source)
  • Lee set a stone bottle and three little translucent porcelain cups on the table.†   (source)
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