opaline

• “His eyes were opaline, and he was built like a reed.”

  Fictionaut: Automatic Typewriter

• “Structure in chromed steel and diffusers in opaline blown glass.”

  The Fireworks Suspension Lamp by Xavier Lust

• “I was predisposed to try a few of the perfumes because of my adoration for its turn-of-the-century glass sculptures, particularly those made of opaline, the milky translucent glass with gold and blue fire swirling within.”

  Archive 2008-11-01

• “The liquid was of an opaline hue, and bore a label with an inscription in Italian.”

  The Woodlanders

• “They leant over the table together, and the milkwoman could see the opaline hue of the egg-fluid changing form as it sank in the water, but she was not near enough to define the shape that it assumed.”

  Wessex Tales

• “Reading that description made my day: "His most striking features are his opaline green eyes, which can be both alluring or intimidating, as need be.”

  WARRIOR #34 DC Comics, 1995

• “His most striking features are his opaline green eyes, which can be both alluring or intimidating, as need be.”

  WARRIOR #34 DC Comics, 1995

• “Art glass: French Gallé picture frames; opaline boxes in white, green, turquoise.”

  Honeymoon

• “Some of the stalls were piled up with wonderful fish, crimson, green, rose, blue, opaline — fish that have spent their lives in coral groves under the warm, bright water.”

  The Hawaiian Archipelago

• “Within the mistiness was a core, a nucleus of intenser light — veined, opaline, effulgent, intensely alive.”

  The Moon Pool

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