The Only Use of
diaphanous
in
Heart of Darkness
- The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.†
Chpt 1
Definition:
so thin that light passes through it