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  • Somniloquies rise like the drowned their lungfuls of air ripple as indecipherable a vision translucent as halite in opaque huelessness the night of it meandering breath is the sea rote I float to the pupil wade the green iris shut in its eyelid these thoughts dream me and not I them how from out of silence clarities swim

    The Night Shore Raymond Gibson 2011

  • Soiled white spacesuits, bright-colored badges and tags, scuttled tiny amidst huelessness.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • Soiled white spacesuits, bright-colored badges and tags, scuttled tiny amidst huelessness.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • Paletta saw that no question of modesty entered the model's mind, and she went back to her easel to paint the rounded limbs and marble huelessness of fair Dian, chastest of all Olympia's deities, wondering if, after all, what is called modesty does not come as much of habit as of nature -- if the veiled face of the Oriental is not as immodest as the unclothedness of the artist's model.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

  • It was like Night blanched in death then; and wan as the very kingdom of death and Hades I have seen it, most terrifying, that neuter state and limbo of nothingness, when unreal sea and spectral sky, all boundaries lost, mingled in a vast shadowy void of ghastly phantasmagoria, pale to utter huelessness, at whose centre I, as if annihilated, seemed to swoon in immensity of space.

    The Purple Cloud 1906

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