How To Use Iridesce In A Sentence
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Under the crystal bright light of a full moon their blue marble shined, iridescent.
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And yet while teachers' strikes may have been popular with chatterers and some politicians, the iridescence has caused untold suffering among pupils whose school calendar has been dislocated.
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Without iridescent blue eye shadow, an effulgent outfit or a hair-sprayed coif, she looks normal.
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It contests every inch of space with man, and, aided by incessant heat and moisture, constantly wrests from him his conquests and buries them in a fury of viridescence.
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
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Down the spiral path of the pit they bore him, encircling the sheening, glowing Red One that seemed ever imminent to iridesce from colour and light into sweet singing and thunder.
THE RED ONE
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The red cloth was then edged with rows of iridescent mother-of-pearl buttons.
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The fresher your mackerel the better - look for glassy eyes and bright, iridescent skin.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her glazed porcelain wings billow in a gossamer sweep of iridescence.
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Her iridescently colored eyes flickered in the direction of the voice, soon followed by a warm smile as she looked to Raek.
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Forging a symbiosis with the force that rules their world, some are viridescent, mimicking the foliage that surrounds them.
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Organza makes a great splash along with tulle, lace, elegant luxury fabrics combined with glittering Chantilly, crushed velvet, jersey with lurex and iridescent cady.
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Beyond them came the beauty of the Hoxworth lane: to the left and north stood an unbroken line of croton bushes imported by Whip from Guadalcanal in the Solomons, and of all that grew on his plantations, these were his favorites, these low sparkling bushes whose iridescent green and red and purple and gold and blue leaves were a constant source of wonder; but to the right ran a long row of hibiscus trees, low shrublike plants that produced a dozen varieties of fragile, crepelike flowers, each with its own dazzling color;
Hawaii
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Besides the pigment-cells just described, Heincke discovered another kind of chromatophore, which was filled with iridescent crystals.
The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals
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Molly stood up in surprise and noticed that she was now wearing a gauzy dress of iridescent white.
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Will people buy Peter Som's broadtail coat from premature or newborn Karakul lambs -- think about that -- with its never-say-excess iridescent fox color?
Earth to Fur Designers
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The pelage consists almost entirely of underfur; it is remarkably iridescent, fine, and silky.
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Gernot Vogel Kopstein 's bronzeback snake (Dendrelaphis kopsteini) has bright orange, almost flamelike, neck coloration that gradually fuses into an iridescent blue, green and brown pattern.
Borneo
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June looks and feels more like February; the iridescent green of the trees and the rampant roses are oddly out of sync with the glowering grey clouds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Using tissue paper will produce an unusual iridescence, as some of the foil will shine through.
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They leaked iridescent bubbles, which rose to the silvered undersurface of the clear brown water.
FAMILY PICTURES
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This will remove shine, leaving you with a slightly iridescent sheen.
The Sun
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The beetles' iridescent wings were used in the Victorian era like sequins to decorate the dresses of society women.
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Nor was it merely in the cheeks, or rather the chaps of this painted face, in the mammiferous chest, the aggressive rump of this body allowed to deteriorate and invaded by obesity, upon which there now floated iridescent as a film of oil, the vice at one time so jealously confined by M. de Charlus in the most secret chamber of his heart.
The Captive
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The beaches are litter-free and the water an iridescent ice-blue.
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As we walked on, beautiful Indian sunbirds, their iridescent green flanks flashing brightly in the sunlight, flew past in a profusion of colours.
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The golden iridescence of Cassida and its allies is produced by a film of moisture beneath the surface cuticle.
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Evoking images of viridescent dragon scales, the pointed, blue-green leaves create a compact, deer-proof assemblage that's infused with reddish purple tinges.
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Where but a few moments before had been men were only grotesque heaps, swiftly melting, swiftly rounding into the the semblance of the mounds that lay behind us — and already beginning to take on their gleam of ancient viridescence!
The Moon Pool
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Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
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New shoots of young grass come up green - a vivid viridescent I have seen nowhere in America or Europe.
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Large checks, iridescent fabrics and decadent velvet are all worn with attitude.
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Moiré and mother of pearl pastel watch faces in colours like pink and aqua and agate will also capture an iridescent feel.
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DJBC – Build My Life (from Let it Beast) message from viridescence
2006 February | Radio Clash Music Podcast & Blog
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From the long tapering fingers of her right hand a golden chain dangled and swinging idly from its end hung a small iridescent vial.
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Thorax: the metathorax finely transversely rugose, the sides with bright silvery-white pubescence; the coxæ, the thorax beneath and on the sides, with fine silky sericeous pile; the anterior tibiæ and tarsi, and all the femora at their apex beneath, ferruginous; wings hyaline and iridescent, nervures black; the outer margin of the tegulæ testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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There's also a crunchy peanut-butter tart, topped with an iridescent scoop of celery sorbet and speckled with crushed pistachios.
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Sardines, however, are glorious enough to imagine enjoying their marinated iridescence dockside with soffrito crudo, and neither rabbit ballotine nor game-bird terrine betray any gaminess.
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Their slender, varicoloured tentacles whipped out; the giant iridescent bubbles
The Moon Pool
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Some eighteenth-century Chinese ceramics with monochrome glazes and iridescent surfaces influenced his glazes, which were primarily iridescent monochromes punctuated with crystals.
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Her hair, brown and warm in shadow, sparkled, where it caught the light, in a kind of crinkly iridescence, like threads of glass.
The Cardinal's Snuff-Box
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The road itself, paved with a pretty good grade of mildly iridescent plastic, was named the Great White Way.
New Race
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It blended solid walnut, solid oak and neolith worktops with drawers and a kitchen island clad in iridescent copper.
Times, Sunday Times
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The light bounced off his light blonde hair and the three silver hoops in his ear in iridescent rainbows.
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It was a long, silvery iridescent gown covered with glittering stars and moons.
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The fresher your mackerel the better - look for glassy eyes and bright, iridescent skin.
Times, Sunday Times
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When the Army software, owned by DHS, was turned on the bee remains, it detected not only the fungus, but also a virus known as the invertebrate iridescent virus (IIV).
TIME.com: Top Stories
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Stretching, Padraic closed his book and put his pipe into the huge iridescent paua shell which served him as an ashtray.
The Thorn Birds
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It appeared to be of fixed shape, a cylindroid almost ten kilometers in length and two in diameter, majestically rotating on its long axis, mother-of-pearl iridescent.
The Boat of a Million Years
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She was a small, colorfully dressed creature with very long blonde hair and iridescent blue eyeshadow.
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June looks and feels more like February; the iridescent green of the trees and the rampant roses are oddly out of sync with the glowering grey clouds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its body is albino and it has an intricate viridescent camouflage.
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The tea menu is a tiny piece of delight, with descriptions that blithely use words like "velutinous" and "viridescent" and "vegetal" to describe their oolongs and whites and blacks.
Archive 2008-10-01
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The corals iridesced under the surface of the clear water
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An iridescent blue embroidered bomber jacket?
Times, Sunday Times
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If you've got the time, or the inclination, layer on a single stroke of eye shadow in sheer shades of lavender, iridescent plum, taupe or bronzy brown.
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On the whole, then, it cannot be doubted that several symbolic motives are inwoven into the iridescent fabric of the play.
The Master Builder
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In the daytime there had been the basking ridge where great ribbed wings of iridescent green or gray or black, dull red or brown or yellow, stretched to channel the sun to the dragon's quickening savoring bodies.
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The surreal absurdity of all this is a joy in itself, while the iridescent underwater scenes border on photorealism.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like that iridescent dragonfly hovering over the ponds in Hampstead when she was six.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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Everything to do with the Midlands has an unintentional, iridescent sheen of hilarity about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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It looked to be made of white silk and the hem and edges were embroidered with iridescent velvet.
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It outguessed my every manoeuvre on the sandy bottom, and I ended the dive knackered, without one image of its huge iridescent blue pectoral fins splayed like a splendid fan to show for my efforts.
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Fins on, reg in, I lowered myself into the clear liquid of the Blue Hole and dropped through the vertical cavern to fin out into the iridescent blue.
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The head hooked from a thickly muscled, scaly neek and ran into a massive black chest shot through with lines of iridescent purple and azure.
A Corridor in the Asylum
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Green darners are large, showy dragonflies with silvery iridescent wings.
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‘I also want to have a few trick ponies, for a circus exhibition,’ she said then allowed her maid to button her into a sleeveless gown of rich, iridescent black with falls of midnight lace and rows of glittering, jet beads.
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In a good light, they gleam with iridescent purples and greens.
Times, Sunday Times
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Faith healer Kathryn Kuhlman, based on a Missouri-born evangelist from the 1960s - re-appropriated/inhabited by Justin Bond - sits perfectly poised upstage on her throne flanked by iridescent white lions.
Roya Rastegar: Justin Bond and the House of Whimsy: Re:Galli Blonde (A Sissy Fix)
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Pale or iridescent colours on walls and floors will help reflect light.
Times, Sunday Times
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Down the spiral path of the pit they bore him, encircling the sheening, glowing Red One that seemed ever imminent to iridesce from color and light into sweet thunder.
The Red One
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What stood out above all else were her flirty, soft dresses in tulle and chiffon in pastel colours which, for the most part, were embroidered with sequins and antique beading and iridescent insets.
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They are dull from a distance, audible by clicks and ribald whistles, and up close as glossy and iridescent as clockwork toys.
Times, Sunday Times
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These air bubbles diffract light into colors that reflect back in a flash of iridescence.
Birdology
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In a good light, they gleam with iridescent purples and greens.
Times, Sunday Times
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The feathering is so intricate that it looks like the iridescent scales of a fish.
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The saltwater univalve with the ear-shaped shell, iridescent inside, contains a rock-clinging creature which, when pounded thin and tender, like a scaloppine, holds pride of place at Chinese banquets.
A New Shell Game
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Rich copper-red color intermingles with yellow-olive iridescence at the margins.
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Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
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I have seen such as "February", for instance, in the Boston Museum, present for me the sensation of a man of great private spiritual and intellectual means, having the wish to express tactfully and convincingly his personal conclusions and reactions, leaning always toward the side of iridescent illusiveness rather than emotional blatancy and irrelevant extravagance.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
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Morbid states of passion, the hectic bloom of fever, heady perfumes of the Orient and the tropics; the bitter-sweet blossom of love; forced fruits of the hot-house (_serres chaudes_); the iridescence of standing pools; the fungoidal growths of decay; such are some of the hackneyed metaphors which render the impression of this neo-romantic poetry.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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In some cases the Roman pearl has a true iridescence which is produced by "burning" colors into the hollow enamel bead.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
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Fluorescent lighting illuminates the white underside of the outer shell generating a soft iridescence that evokes the mystery of a subterranean grotto, with the cave-like auditorium at its heart.
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Breeding adults have yellow bills, iridescent feathers that shine purple and green and are flecked with white spots.
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The drawings 'iridescent interference grounds spawn coloristically nuanced backdrops for marks that destabilize perception of consistent presence or absence, inertia or momentum.
Artforum.com
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A new study by Cambridge University has found that flowers take on different colours depending on the angle from which they are viewed†"plant petals use the property, known as iridescence, to attract pollinators.
The Times of India
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Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
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The iridescence phosphoresced through the spouts of water from the fountain.
The Art Thief
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Females, juveniles, and males in eclipse plumage (from May through August) are mottled brown with orange legs and a green-black iridescent speculum with a blue patch on the forewing.
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Everything to do with the Midlands has an unintentional, iridescent sheen of hilarity about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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the shimmer of colors on iridescent feathers
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The car enters the prismatic bands and I am bathed in iridescence.
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Gleaming, iridescent mother-of-pearl possesses more than beauty.
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Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
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Tiny glasses of crystal-clear arak that clouded into milky iridescence when you added ice.
Day of Honey
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At dawn that morning, the truck driver had pulled up in the fourteen-wheeler to a grassy clearing on the north bank of the Tana River, where crocodiles skulked in typhoidal water in the viridescent shadow of mangrove trees.
Peace Meals
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Cape back jackets, long flaring iridescent skirts and trousers with contrasting coloured inserts made for a sophisticated collection.
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The ubiquitous saw grass rattles in the wind, while pond-apple trees, yellow pond lilies, and pickerelweed, with its iridescent purple flowers, line the riverbanks.
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Sometimes a single slender thread, impearled with dewdrops, bridged the distance from one tendril to another, again a bit of cobweb was spread over a dead leaf, to catch a hint of iridescence from the sun or moon; and now and then a shimmering length of ghostly fabric was set in place at dusk, to hold the starry lights that came to shine upon the broken tapestry with the peace of benediction.
Master of the Vineyard
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Strontium sulfate is sometimes used to produce iridescence in glass and pottery glazes, and can also be used as a fining agent (to remove bubbles in the molten glass) in crystal glass.
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Farther off, several scattered towers reared twenty or thirty meters above the forest, iridescent and lacily graceful where ivylike growth had not overrun them.
Starfarers
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In these altar mosaics, iridescent Favrile glass, Tiffany's trademark in other work, was rejected in favor of opalescent Favrile glass and Byzantine style tesserae made with gold leaf.
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Iridescent purple swamphens, lavished with outrageous lipstick (their bills and frontal shields actually) stomp over the leaves on gigantic spider feet, bobbing their ludicrous white-handkerchief tails behind them.
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A mobile phone with an iridescent blue cover peeps from the top pocket.
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Two green hairstreak butterflies, gracefully viridescent, dance past on a soft wind that sifts through reeds, sets waving the tall golden flower stems of bog asphodel, and silky white plumes of cottongrass that has colonised the old peat-diggings.
Country diary: Tregaron, Ceredigon
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And similarly of his friend, Mrs. Taylor, "She was a will-o'-the - wispish iridescence of a creature; meaning nothing bad either"; and again of Mill himself, "His talk is sawdustish, like ale when there is no wine to be had.
Thomas Carlyle
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P. testa ovata, umbilicata; spira mediocri, acuta, ad apicem integra, cornea, viridescente aut pallide fulva; anfractibus quinque, convexis, saepe plus minusve transversim subliratis; apertura ovata; labio reflexo, umbilicum partim tegente; labro vix incrassato, peristomate nigrescente.
The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
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We'd dearly love to grab squares of iridescent fabric and twist them into fabulously flattering Jerry Hallesque wraps.
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I sewed Hydrangea petals along the waistline attached with a single iridescent glass Mill Hill Bead and also added a few scattered throughout the bottom overskirt in the same manner.
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The promontory on which Sorrento stands is barren enough, but southward rise pleasant cliffs viridescent with samphire, and beyond them purple hills dotted with white spots of houses.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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As I was being consumed by the iridescence of light reflected by the dewdrops, Crystal, my horse neighed impatiently putting his moist, warm brown muzzle to my ear.
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Their long white necks were flecked with the tiniest feathers of iridescent azure and jade and they walked on their thin bright yellow legs with a magnificent strut.
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Each arc had an iridescent crystal drop in the center of it, and loops of silver chains falling to her mid back from each.
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Working on unprimed Belgian Linen and her 20 year collection of handmade Japanese papers, she enhances each piece with gold and silver leaf, glass frit, threads, metallic paints, inks and iridescent paints.
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But if you chance to see a vulture up close, you will notice that this iridescent black bird's underwings are a satiny gray.
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The term "iridescence" is used when the display of colour is seen on the surface, rather than coming out of the stone itself.
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
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Pale or iridescent colours on walls and floors will help reflect light.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the pinworm soup there were squirming iridescent protozoa, single-celled giants that were almost as big as the multicellular worms.
Parasite Rex
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There wasn't any trick of the harp trade that Levalier missed as she glided through iridescent glissandos or swept through rippling arpeggios.
In performance: KenCen Chamber Players
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She was assisted by a familiar, dumpy middle-aged woman whose viridescent tinge owed nothing to her green dress.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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At dawn that morning, the truck driver had pulled up in the fourteen-wheeler to a grassy clearing on the north bank of the Tana River, where crocodiles skulked in typhoidal water in the viridescent shadow of mangrove trees.
Peace Meals
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Impressionism, -- the one who has stated most precisely the femineity of this luminous and iridescent art.
The French Impressionists (1860-1900)
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Nosema fungus that researchers had previously suspected, and a DNA-virus called invertebrate iridescent virus (IIV).
Ars Technica
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An iridescent blue embroidered bomber jacket?
Times, Sunday Times
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This viridescence is caused by the single-celled alga Oophilia amblystomatis.
Scientific American
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Fortune, -- "Volve sua spera, e beata si gode:" the motive power of this wheel distinguishing its goddess from the fixed majesty of Necessitas with her iron nails; or [Greek: anankê], with her pillar of fire and iridescent orbits, _fixed_ at the centre.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
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Today, its delicate strength and its iridescent pearlized glaze is enthusiastically purchased the world over.
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Thorax very smooth and shining; the wings colourless and iridescent, their extreme base yellowish, the nervures and stigma brown, the tegulæ pale testaceous-yellow; the posterior tibiæ with a scopa of glittering white hairs, the tarsi ferruginous and with glittering hairs.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Scientists investigating hibiscus petals identified waxy lines that gave the plants their iridescence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Where on earth can I find an iridescent diamond; without a scintillating shine.
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Adult males have a pink-streaked iridescent throat-patch that can be held erect.
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This will remove shine, leaving you with a slightly iridescent sheen.
The Sun
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Two green hairstreak butterflies, gracefully viridescent, dance past on a soft wind that sifts through reeds, sets waving the tall golden flower stems of bog asphodel, and silky white plumes of cottongrass that has colonised the old peat-diggings.
Country diary: Tregaron, Ceredigon
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However, she had the charm, and those who feared her were also fond of her; the fear and the fondness being perhaps both heightened by what may be called the iridescence of her character -- the play of various, nay, contrary tendencies.
Daniel Deronda
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It has an iridescent shiny ice pink dial with pink patent leather strap and a changeable sporty gel strap.
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Moiré and mother of pearl pastel watch faces in colours like pink and aqua and agate will also capture an iridescent feel.
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There's no sham there; no deception -- except the iridescence, which is, as you doubtless know, an optical illusion attributable to the intervention of rays of light reflected from microscopic corrugations of the nacreous surface.
Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana
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an iridescent oil slick
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He rolled up his sleeve and placed his arm under the light, which soon began to iridesce.
No Limits
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An iridescent blue embroidered bomber jacket?
Times, Sunday Times
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The metathorax transversely rugose; the pectus, and coxæ at their base within, black; wings brown, with a violet iridescence, their base rufo-hyaline; the intermediate and posterior tibiæ with a double row of spines, all the tarsi spinose.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Her latest fashion collection features shimmering iridescent materials.
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Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
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She gazes at her daughter, both faces iridescent with joy.
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An iridescent sheen spread over the surface of the water below him, indicating a fuel leak.
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A pointless attention had been paid to the particularities of their plumage, their iridescence, and so on.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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I remember the dragonflies, damselflies and other insects, their colours iridescent in the bright sun.
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The fresher your mackerel the better - look for glassy eyes and bright, iridescent skin.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was assisted by a familiar, dumpy middle-aged woman whose viridescent tinge owed nothing to her green dress.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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If the butterfly can fly free with its wings of iridescent color, gardeners should be allowed to do the same.
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Located in Pisa, Italy, the San Ranieri Hotel was completed last year, and features a vibrant nighttime display of iridescent colors that light up the exterior.
The San Ranieri Hotel
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An iridescent blue embroidered bomber jacket?
Times, Sunday Times
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Breeding adults have yellow bills, iridescent feathers that shine purple and green and are flecked with white spots.
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Since flower petals are usually translucent, backlighting can give them an iridescent glow that accentuates the flower's color and brings it to life.
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a sparkling aqua from a manicurist, in other words someone who knows how a varnish should handle and finish: clean, clear as the Mediterranean Sea and very pretty with just the right iridescence to lift it.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Because many of the iridescent glass wares were sold to fun-fairs it became known as Carnival Glass.
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Renaissance artists used paints and glazes that got their appealing color and iridescence from nanoparticles.
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He was beautiful and talked in stirring iridescence.
ADRIFT • by Andrew S. Fuller
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An iridescent sheen spread over the surface of the water below him, indicating a fuel leak.
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Most of the Lunarians wore ordinary garments, although their styles of it-upward-flared collars, short cloaks, dagged skirts, pectoral sunbursts, insignia of phyle or family, colors, iridescences, inset glitterlights, details more fanciful still-would have been florid were it not as natural on them as brilliance on a coral snake.
The Stars Are Also Fire
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In a good light, they gleam with iridescent purples and greens.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the fifth chapter, iridescent colors of two morpho butterflies and one insect are studied cursorily .
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The shells of the awabi, or 'sea-ear,' which reaches a surprising size in these western waters, are converted by skilful polishing and cutting into wonderful dishes, bowls, cups, and other articles, over whose surfaces the play of iridescence is like a flickering of fire of a hundred colours. º18
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series
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He picked a dark-aqua guitar that was iridescent and metallic.
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Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
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Also distinguished by their long, erectile, iridescent tail feathers, which they spread at every opportunity
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Sun shines on them like white gold and in the shade they become iridescent blue, eerie like glaciers or icebergs.
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This is what we call iridescence without illumination.
Centennial
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Several days later he spotted another huge, strong-flying, iridescent birdwing of the genus Ornithoptera, similar but not identical to the three he had caught in Celebes.
The Song of The Dodo
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The females of these big damselflies are metallic green; the males a deep, rich iridescent blue, and in flight they flash shining blue thumbprints on their four wings.
Country diary: Elton, Cambridgeshire
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The color of the siderite is grayish-white when cleaned, but in most instances it is a dull to iridescent reddish-brown because of alteration to iron oxides on the crystal surfaces.
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If we approach carefully, the beautiful patterning on the soft tissues, the slender tentacles and iridescent eye spots can all be observed.
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Whereas Ellis concentrates on the music, I want to keep emphasising that in dance the rhythm and kinesis of the dance itself is integral to the iridescences that are built up to mix, mingle, and converge.
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Spanish Fly refers to beautiful, iridescent green insects, Cantharis vesicatoria, which contain cantharidin, which is both a vesicant (causes blisters) and a diuretic.
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Males attract mates using song, iridescent plumage and dramatic display flights.
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Trochilines often have iridescent feathers of metallic red, orange, green and blue.
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Apply a light layer along your shins and let the iridescent shimmer do its thing.
The Sun
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Where on earth can I find an iridescent diamond; without a scintillating shine.
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The play of light and opacity is analogous to the relation of gaze and screen: "It is always that gleam of light — it lay at the heart of my little story — it is always this which prevents me, at each point, from being a screen, from making the light appear as an iridescence that overflows it" (96).
The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster
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A sparkling phosphorescence blossomed out through the water from where they hit the water, and the pool was lit with a strange iridescence.
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They were made of every one of the light, hard, ornamental substances: glittering glassein, the colorful but opaque Ordine plastic, viridescent magnesitic berylium.
The Weapon Shops of Isher
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The black, uncoagulated, and incoagulable blood shows an iridescent scum on its surface, which is due to the fat of the animal dissolved by the ammonia produced by the decomposed tissues.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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The tea menu is a tiny piece of delight, with descriptions that blithely use words like "velutinous" and "viridescent" and "vegetal" to describe their oolongs and whites and blacks.
Archive 2008-10-01
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So the red army had won the cup and their third silver trophy gleamed amongst the iridescent confetti and brilliant white floodlights.
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Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
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Luster, iridescence, and surface blemishes determine price, but so does size, color, shape, and unique matches of two or more pearls.
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Her latest fashion collection features shimmering iridescent materials.
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Where but a few moments before had been men were only grotesque heaps, swiftly melting, swiftly rounding into the semblance of the mounds that lay behind us -- and already beginning to take on their gleam of ancient viridescence!
The Moon Pool
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Apply a light layer along your shins and let the iridescent shimmer do its thing.
The Sun
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They seemed to taint the lower atmosphere with their glow, so that it did not surprise Gren to see cloud bars of viridescent hue, striping the sky.
HOTHOUSE
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On a clear day the rays of the summer sun pick out gems of iridescent blues and greens that are the creepy-crawlies, beetles and bugs among the bushes and wild flowers in my garden.
Country diary: East Yorkshire
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They are often iridescent, giving them a spectacular array of colours.
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I would lie under them and my eyes would rise buoyed up and surfeited in immense rustling viridescence.
Archive 2007-04-03
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I bought a few unusual oilbars from traditional paint-makers for them to use: an iridescent, pearlescent color, silver, gold and colorless blenders.
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The ladybirds were being irresistibly drawn to the iridescence of the white material and by the time he was standing, smartly leaning on his cane, with his toes amid the washed up dead ladybirds.
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It was chock-a-block full of interesting articles on geckos and eerily iridescent photos of deep-sea jellyfish, but for some reason the World magazines piled up in the corner until ones on the bottom began to smolder from the pressure of the magazines on the top.
The Day The World Became Shut To Me
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Apparent in flight, the speculum, or wing-patch, is dark iridescent-green, looking black at times, with white on the forewing.
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Rarely chalcopyrite appeared as a thin film on sphalerite crystal faces, giving specimens a slight iridescence.
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It was a little too iridescent on first application but softened quickly and gave a subtle, welcome sheen.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ancona judges are looking for - among other things - white tips to all feathers, yellow legs with mottling, iridescent greeny / black colouring, a good red comb on the head with around five spikes and white ear lobes.
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From the long tapering fingers of her right hand a golden chain dangled and swinging idly from its end hung a small iridescent vial.
