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  • One of these, dark-skinned but with speckles no darker than light amber, armed only with a heavy dagger, came over and clapped von Schlichten on the shoulder, grinning opalescently.

    Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952

  • One of these, dark-skinned but with speckles no darker than light amber, armed only with a heavy dagger, came over and clapped von Schlichten on the shoulder, grinning opalescently.

    Ullr Uprising H. Beam Piper 1934

  • One of these, dark-skinned but with speckles no darker than light amber, armed only with a heavy dagger, came over and clapped von Schlichten on the shoulder, grinning opalescently.

    Uller Uprising H. Beam Piper 1934

  • A fog had arisen, and the struggling rosy beams of the sun glimmered opalescently through the density.

    Other Things Being Equal Emma Wolf 1898

  • Then a magpie began to pipe his arpeggios, which sounded sweet and clear in the morning air; and this seemed to be the signal to start a chorus of whistling and shrieking up in the thick boughs, where a flock of paroquets were hidden; and a glow in the east made the morning grey look so opalescently beautiful that it was hard to believe there could be any danger.

    First in the Field A Story of New South Wales George Manville Fenn 1870

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