Lexicographical Neighbors of Translucencies
Literary usage of Translucencies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Print Connoisseur by Winifred Porter Truesdell (1922)
"For in his work, which reflects partly his mind, are vistas of a deep vision and
translucencies of rare beauty—a quality of soul, in other words, ..."
2. The invisible man: A Grotesque Romance by Herbert George Wells (1897)
"... be reflected and refracted, so that you would get a brilliant appearance of
flashing reflections and translucencies, —• a sort of skeleton of light. ..."
3. The Bookman (1916)
"... of symbolic hallucination, tinged and dyed with the iridescent colours, the
dim translucencies, of dream- dusks, of veiled dawns and sultry noons. ..."
4. The Century by Bim Sherman (1899)
"Behind these is a cliff of diamonds; in front is an aura of rainbows; and dominating
the whole there gleams through the white translucencies the mobile ..."
5. Estimates in Art by Frank Jewett Mather (1916)
"He invented not merely more splendid colors but also denser translucencies than
had ever before been known—and he tells us himself that he was stimulated to ..."
6. Hispanic Anthology by Thomas Walsh (1920)
"Sad, But with that cool Melancholy Of all soft translucencies. — All that exists,
Turning diaphanous, is serene and sad. A Sabine pilgrim Beholds in the ..."
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