opaline

• The sheep fed below, and her horse, with a bedroll across its back, nibbled not far away Hugh stopped and looked at the lonely figure sitting motionless in the opaline-tinted light of the sunset, her chin sunk in her palm, her shoulders drooping. —  The Fighting Shepherdess
• 49. 'Mount Tahawas, Adirondacs'--J. McEntee, N. A. A picture of great simplicity and grandeur, and one we should never weary of looking into, waiting for the opaline lights of dawn to deepen into the full glory of day. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
• If you take pride in your work, send it out well dressed; but, no matter how ćsthetic your taste may be, never use the shades of cherry, opaline, canary, or Nile green, in which certain grades of paper are made RULES FOR WRITING THE SCRIPT. —  Writing the Photoplay
• Above, where the opaline-tinted horizon shaded imperceptibly into the deep ultramarine of evening, lay glowing streamers of vivid crimson cloud-bank edged with the gleaming gold of the sunset's after-glow It was a soul-filling sight. —  The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
• Lo! here is Rome and Nineveh and Thebes, Karnak and Pyramid and Giant's Stairs Half piled or prostrate; and my newest slab Older than all thy race Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose in June, Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July; Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds, Purger of earth, and medicine of men; Creating a sweet climate by my breath, Washing out harms and griefs from memory, And, in my mathematic ebb and flow, Giving a hint of that which changes not. —  Poems Household Edition

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