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Heat clothed this view with a kind of opalescence, a fairy garment, transmuting all values, so that the four square walls and tall chimneys of the pottery-works a few miles down the valley seemed to Courtier like a vision of some old fortified Italian town.— Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
Heat clothed this view with a kind of opalescence, a fairy garment, transmuting all values, so that the four square walls and tall chimneys of the pottery-works a few miles down the valley seemed to Courtier like a vision of some old fortified— The Patrician
And yet we accept it as natural, for this opalescence is always in the mist-laden air of the West; it enters into the soul today as it did into the soul of the ancient Gael, who called it Ildathach -- the many-colored land; it becomes part of the atmosphere of the mind; and I think— Imaginations and Reveries
The ultra-microscopical vesicles filled with air in all probability give rise to the opalescence which is so marked a property of the substance.— Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887
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