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vitreous
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  • What about the vitreous body?†  (source)
  • He was soaking now with the sacred, vitreous oils from the lamps.†  (source)
  • The curtains drawn, the grease spots on his vest glistened in vitreous tableau.†  (source)
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  • The grandfather trembled from head to foot as powerfully as ossified limbs can tremble, his eyes, whose corneae were yellow on account of his great age, were veiled in a sort of vitreous glitter, his whole face assumed in an instant the earthy angles of a skull, his arms fell pendent, as though a spring had broken, and his amazement was betrayed by the outspreading of the fingers of his two aged hands, which quivered all over, his knees formed an angle in front, allowing, through the opening in his dressing-gown, a view of his poor bare legs, all bristling with white hairs, and he murmured: "Marius!"†  (source)
  • It is a vitreous greenish blue, as I remember it, like those patches of the winter sky seen through cloud vistas in the west before sundown.†  (source)
  • Vitreous fluid.†  (source)
  • Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!†  (source)
  • The toilet is made of a hard vitreous china.†
  • It is a vitreous rock.†
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