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  • Tastes and odors are, of course, among the most eva - nescent of phenomena, and poetry of the time is full of references to them.

    IMPRESSIONISM IN ART THOMAS MUNRO 1968

  • And, just as there, but far smaller, was a passage end, a low curved wall facing a shaft not black as had been that abode of living darkness, but faintly lumi-nescent.

    The Moon Pool 1919

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