How To Use Limpid In A Sentence
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Bernice lay contentedly at the edge of a sand embankment white as driven snow, her chin cupped in her hands, watching half a dozen or more mullets drift and swing in the limpid clear water below.
The Mystery at Number Six
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Why then mystify the clear and limpid line by making of the rituals cloistered and fetid mysteries when they are open to the sky, unregimented, free, and democratic?
An Autobiography
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Seen from the above, the lake resembles a pair of limpid eyes.
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He knows where the work's heart lies and how to conjure its spell from the music 's limpid simplicity and antiquarian turns of phrase.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's full of phonemes, guttural exclamations and limpid hisses.
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The punctured part on a boy's arm (who was inoculated with fresh limpid virus) on the sixth day, instead of shewing a beginning vesicle, which is usual in the cow-pox at that period, was encrusted over with a rugged, amber-coloured scab.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
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Overall, the tonal balance, flattening of forms and coolness of colouring projects a feeling of utter limpidity.
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I was beginning to feel all tingly as he gazed into the limpid pool of my eyes and professed his honorable intentions.
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a few whitish bristles; pectus whitish; hind borders of the abdominal segments ferruginous; legs testaceous; femora striped with black; tarsi black, ferruginous at the base; wings limpid, blackish at the tips; costa deep black, incrassated in the middle; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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He thought the speech a model of its kind, limpid and unaffected.
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Despite his plain clothing he was very striking with short neatly-combed back auburn hair, an oval face, a baby-faced countenance, a medium, but short build and piercing, limpid bluish-green eyes.
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Cortes speaks to both of us at once - to him in rapid Spanish, to me in tentative English punctuated by long gaps in which he turns his limpid brown eyes my way, imploring me to help him find the missing words.
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Elsewhere there were wonderful moments of limpidity – as the first movement reaches its development, and in the intermezzo above all.
Lucerne Festival Orchestra – review
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_ Atra; capite piceo vitta testacea, subtus albo; antennis testaceis; thorace cinereo punctis lateralibus albis, pectore albido; abdominis segmentis testaceo marginatis; tibiis albido fasciatis, tarsis albidis; alis albo-limpidis, strigis basalibus fasciisque duabus latis nigricantibus, prima antice furcata; halteribus albis.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Not content with appropriating to their own use the goods of others, they from mere wantonness spoiled what they did not use, so as to be of no use to the owners. deep waters -- that is, "limpid," as deep waters are generally clear.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Holding that limpid gaze, she saw something his original owner, who'd abandoned him on a south London housing estate, clearly didn't.
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In his estimation, the Authorized Version, more than any other European Bible, had a flowing limpidity combined with ritual overtones.
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_ Fulvus, latiusculus; antennarum articulo tertio piceo angusto lineari longissimo; abdomine vitta tenui nigricante; alis limpidis, costa vittaque postica fuscescentibus.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Note the chair placed near to the doorway and the limpid UJ on the door pillar.
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Gouffé wrote in a limpid style, comprehensible by all and exhibiting a standard of literary craftsmanship which equalled the author's skill in the kitchen.
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Its limpid pools, vivid colours and unusual plants will reinforce your sense of tranquility and equanimity.
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The music is limpid and languid, dripping grace and deft touches.
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Because a double-blind procedure could not be guaranteed with the commercially available galenical form (lyophilized powder), a methylprednisolone solution that was characterized by its limpidity was used.
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Their luster was superb as was their limpid green color and transparency.
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Imagine interrupting a long, hot hike to cool off in the limpid water of a deserted Greek cove, lingering in a tiny, frescoed monastery - or climbing a mountain track where wild cyclamen brighten the verges.
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When we have, however, praised the limpidity of The Vikings at Helgeland, we have, in honesty, to make several reservations in our criticism of the author's choice of a subject.
Henrik Ibsen
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`He saw the water, issuing from a spring in the cavern, and he knelt to scoop up a palmful of the limpid liquid.
KARA KUSH
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Waterfall greeted her with a solemn and purposeful symphony - muted strings and timpani rolls and, far off in the background, as though being created by spray and the rising mist, a limpid, shining, flute-like voice joined the music.
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He thought the speech a model of its kind, limpid and unaffected.
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The diamond was not very well known among the ancients; and if we add to this reason the similarity between the words smiris, the Egyptian asmir, "emery", a species of corindon used to polish precious stones, and shmyr, the Hebrew word supposed to mean the diamond, we may conclude with probability that the limpid corindon was intended.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Below nestled a shingle cove of limpid water and fearless little fish, qualities that tend to bring the boy out of the man.
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Her amber eyes reflected in the mirror were limpid, and alluring.
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His penchant for big questions, his lucid and often limpid prose, and his willingness to pose unconventional and unpopular arguments have combined to make him a must-read.
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_ Nigro-viridis; capite piceo apud oculos albido; antennis rufescentibus; thorace vitta abdomineque fasciis cinereis; pedibus nigris; alis limpidis, vittis tribus nigris, prima postice abbreviata, secunda tertiaque latis; halteribus albidis.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The eyes could be either as cold and sparkling as sapphires or as warm and limpid as the deep cerulean of the sea, or even, in certain moods, the misty blue of the mountains.
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With Pascal Devoyon as like-thinking partner, he gives limpid performances of music well worth an airing.
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Could it be that that limpidity extends itself to caving in to an onslaught of anti western abuse by it's very own immigrants?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Her limpid eyes were intoxicating, holding him, and imprisoning him.
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There was a twinkle in his limpid brown eyes.
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Her body with its generous curves still followed its own limpid rhythms and her long braid with its colourful Patiala parandis moved slowly to and fro upon that impregnable behind.
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The limpid green eyes are friendly and engaging.
Times, Sunday Times
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The travelogue prefigures his style - limpid narrative, minute detailing, wide-ranging, seamlessly fitting intertextual references, snatches of reverie, bursts of humour.
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A sassy aria from Zandonai's Carmen-esque Conchita led into Fleming's oft-encored "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess, more restrained than I've heard her do in the past, with Höll giving limpid account of Gershwin's shifting counterpoint.
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The apple-tree among the trees of the wood; the rose of Sharon: the lily of the vale; the cedar, with its dark green foliage; the rock for strength; the sea for multitudinousness; the heaven with its limpid blue, like the Divine compassion, overarching all -- these are some of the forthshadowings in the natural world of spiritual qualities in the nature of God.
Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.
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Above, the sky would be of a cold blue colour, save for a fringe of flame-coloured streaks on the horizon that kept turning ever paler and paler; and when the moon had come out there would be wafted through the limpid air the sounds of a frightened bird fluttering, of a bulrush rubbing against its fellows in the gentle breeze, and of a fish rising with a splash.
Poor Folk
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writes in a limpid style
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Having apparently completed her dissertation, Malie rested her chin on one fist and regarded him with limpid, rather bovine eyes.
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Although facing left, Paula directs her bold, limpid eyes back to center stage.
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He called some well-characterized species of _septaria_ in my cabinet _pudding-stone, _ beautiful specimens of limpid hexagonal crystals of quartz, _common quartz_, &c.Mr. George P. Marsh, of Vermont, brings me a letter of introduction.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
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Tyner's limpid chording is economical, percussive and sleekly propulsive; on the album's only ballad, Mal Waldron's ‘Soul Eyes’ he takes a short but delicate solo sandwiched between the leader's passionate statements.
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She leaned toward him, entreaty in her eyes, and as he looked at her delicate face and into her pure, limpid eyes, as of old he was struck with his own unworthiness.
Chapter 26
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His music sounds as if it is being sung to a listener on the mainland from some siren's island far off in the limpid sea.
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Christie's infallible feel for style elucidates the refinement of texture and brings out delightful detail in the shape, for instance, of limpid pastoral flutes or the busy string lines in L'Amour's virtuoso ariette Vole Zéphire in Les Fêtes d'Hébé and the gathering momentum of the scene that follows.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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In Duccio's rendering, Mary's limpid eyes are reservoirs of reflection.
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The liquid medium was more obscure, but the limpidity of these transparent waters still allowed the light to penetrate sufficiently for Benito to distinguish the objects scattered on the bed of the river, and to approach them with some safety.
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
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The work has its longueurs, but it is worth waiting around for this inexpressibly limpid and lovely solo.
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Barth saw from his place at the doorway that she was looking up into his best friend's face with large limpid eyes and her lips parting to show her most dazzling white smile, her arms twined around his neck.
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You'll be impressed by its secluded limpid water and verdured hills, a smaller Three Gorges but with clean and still river.
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Picture the many forms of water - from swelling surf to torrential rain to spouting geyser to limpid pool to sparkling bubbles to tinkling iceblocks to healing tears.
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And from then onwards I felt less admiration for Bergotte, whose limpidity began to strike me as insufficient.
The Guermantes Way
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I'm going to take the most extraordinary political event that has happened in Britain for however many years and I am going to doggedly interiorise it and depoliticise it with a certain type of limpid prose . . .
A life in writing: China Miéville
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The anchor dropped through 20 ft of limpid water and we slipped over the side to swim and snorkel before lunch.
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She had large, limpid eyes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The extraordinary salted chewiness of bresaola is flattered by limpid extra virgin olive oil.
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limpid blue eyes
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The clarity of the gold-tinted light that is so characteristic in these paintings is indeed comparable to the limpidity of Emerson's prose style in his Essays.
Howard Milstein Against the World! Run Over, Tough Guy Fights Back
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As Josh writes of Sebald: "Sebald's work first shocked readers with its apparently artless photographs and endless paragraphs, but in recollection the work is nearly limpid, its melancholy polished to a high gleam.
Saying Something
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Anyone unfamiliar with his limpid mind can catch up quickly in his short new book, a compendium of earlier themes, which includes a reminder of his background.
Times, Sunday Times
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With the recent fish kill in Jagaranahalli Lake last Wednesday, the spotlight is once again on the state of the city's once limpid lakes.
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Antennæ tawny, arista white; thorax and abdomen with bright silvery tomentum; tarsi whitish testaceous; wings limpid, veins pale.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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On the contrary, a limpid, understated vignette can be just as strong and striking.
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Many families from New Orleans, and other exposed situations, retire to the pine barrens of Louisiana, in the hot and sickly season, where limpid streams, flowing over a pebbly bed, and a terebinthine atmosphere are enjoyed.
A New Guide for Emigrants to the West
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She had large, limpid eyes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Beyond the white sand lapped the limpid sea.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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_ Nigro-cyanea, antennis piceis, articulo tertio longissimo, tarsis basi albidis, tibiis intermediis sordide albidis, alis limpidis.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Studying you, I note your limpid gaze, felicitous expression your dazzling waist.
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We are told that the baptism took place at Killoughternane where the streams of two fountains meet and, on account of the limpid purity of the waters, he was baptised by the name of Finnlach, ‘The Child of the Limpid Fountain’.
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The Choir of Westminster Cathedral responds with a limpid beauty to the direction of Martin Baker whose patient enthusiasm is very evident in the ecstatic end-product.
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Her eyes take in everything, limpid and deep, revealing a kind of rawness that's hard to read.
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Presumably to save space, verse is cited in two parallel columns, read across rather than down, with the effect that ‘The Character of a Happy Life’ appears at first glance to be written in obscure couplets rather than limpid quatrains.
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So now we have a sensitive, limpid-eyed guy shuffling down the sidewalk of a trendy shopping district on his way to open-mic poetry night, Chairman Mao handbag slung over his frail Vegan shoulders.
Woolrich Chic
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Nothing supports this claim as convincingly as the meditative ‘The Music Plays Itself,’ where limpid guitars reverberate mournfully over railroad noise and faded electronic scratch.
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Gama Valley is famous for the luxuriantly green forest, colorful cuckooflowers, limpid spring, deep and steep gorges and various birds.
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Having arrived in England in 1938 at the age of 23 as a student with very little English, he soon mastered the language sufficiently to write prose of outstanding clarity and limpidity.
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It is an astonishing performance; so little is visible on the surface and yet a whole universe of emotions is simmering away behind those limpid eyes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each bird's voice is but four limpid notes, delivered in slow, syncopated cadence, rising to a bell-like question mark.
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A small, lively man with limpid blue eyes and an unruly thatch of thinning white hair, Hill delighted participants in his workshop with his pithy one-liners and folksy aphorisms.
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_ Cyaneo-viridis; capite pedibusque nigris; antennis piceis, basi rufis; thorace vittis quatuor albidis; abdomine purpureo-cyaneo; alis limpidis, litura basali, fasciis duabus (prima abbreviata, secunda interrupta) strigaque costali apicali nigris.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Even the bleak tower blocks of Hume are caught in limpid Northern sunlight, breaking through the clouds, making the estates look like places of hopeful promise.
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I'm learning english, but your mistake in "limpid" made me doubt, and that only answer I got wrong.
The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed
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Neale, himself famed for his literary style, described the prose as ‘lucid and limpid and always charged with vitality’.
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Head in front and the pectus white; antennæ ferruginous at the base; abdomen long, a hoary band on the hind border of each segment; femora, tibiæ, and tarsi white at the base; hind legs long, rather stout; hind femora with a luteous band; wings limpid, veins black; halteres whitish, with piceous knobs.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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It did not separate under the axe into misshapen pieces, with faces of every possible variation from regularity, that is, with what is called vitreous fracture, but rather separated into a number of nuts of limpid ice, each being of a prismatic form, and of much regularity in shape and size.
Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland
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With her limpid touch and palpable feeling for the unfolding of form, she avoids excessive emphasis, but firmness is there when called for.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anne looked at her with eyes limpid with sympathy.
Anne of Green Gables
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There was a limpid pool of emerald water rimmed with brown sand, set in a giant's jumble of rubbed granite blocks.
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Head testaceous; antennæ testaceous, third joint short, conical; arista plumose; abdomen deep black; legs testaceous; femora black; wings limpid white, with three broad blackish stripes, the second emitting a branch from its outer side to the costa,
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The place is stuffed with verdant vistas, mountain views, bosky dells, bubbling brooks and limpid lakes.
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Herself the only daughter of a struggling man of letters, she had during the last year or two taken to writing poems, in an endeavour to find a congenial channel in which to let flow her painfully embayed emotions, whose former limpidity and sparkle seemed departing in the stagnation caused by the routine of a practical household and the gloom of bearing children to a commonplace father.
Wessex Tales
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The inclusion of Agostino di Duccio's limpidly linear Madonna and Child relief from the V & A reminds us that not all rilievo schiacciato looks like Donatello.
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A small, lively man with limpid blue eyes and an unruly thatch of thinning white hair, Hill delighted participants in his workshop with his pithy one-liners and folksy aphorisms.
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As in the Debussy, the layering of texture brought chiarascuro to the music, the melody highlighted through the limpid falling thirds of the first and the pulsating chords of the second, with its emotive central interlude.
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The punctured part on a boys arm (who was inoculated with fresh limpid virus) on the sixth day, instead of shewing a beginning vesicle, which is usual in the cow-pox at that period, was encrusted over with a rugged, amber-coloured scab.
III. A Continuation of Facts and Observations Relative to the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox. 1800
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He raised eyes filled with limpid innocence to hers, expecting to meet a narrow-eyed glance brimming with aggravation.
WHOLE SECRET LOVE
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Yeah, limpid are like clear water in a tranquil pool.
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I was beginning to feel all tingly as he gazed into the limpid pool of my eyes and profess his honorable intentions.
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Greed is the impetus of corporate fraud, integrity, justice, limpidity and responsibility are basic to corporate sustainable growth.
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Could this, then, be the firm-poised, Christ-like man I had known, with pure, limpid eyes and a gaze steady and unfaltering as his soul?
Chapter 12: The Bishop
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They would converge on the place each summer, moor their yachts in the limpid waters off Capriccioli or Cala di Volpe, and take it in turns to host parties on board or on beach.
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In contrast, a small black fig some argue a glass bubble freshens the goblet's limpid contents.
The Compassionate Scoundrel
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The line feels apposite because Warpaint make music to submerge yourself in, limpid on the surface, eddying beneath.
Warpaint: The Fool - review
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In brief and limpid episodes French director Alain Cavalier bares the masochism, eroticism, and purity at the heart of Therese's self-enclosed crusade.
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Three limpid watercolors reveal their development through a few washes applied to a pencil or ink line drawing, providing more graphic than chromatic complexity.
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Yet, in her mouth, English was a new and beautiful language, softly limpid, with an audacity of phrase and tellingness of expression that conveyed subtleties and nuances as unambiguous and direct as they were unexpected from one of such childlikeness and simplicity.
BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
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It is an astonishing performance; so little is visible on the surface and yet a whole universe of emotions is simmering away behind those limpid eyes.
Times, Sunday Times
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He called some well-characterized species of septaria in my cabinet pudding-stone, beautiful specimens of limpid hexagonal crystals of quartz, common quartz, &c.Mr. George P. Marsh, of Vermont, brings me a letter of introduction.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
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Owing to their hygrometrical nature, the sticky threads are laden with tiny drops, and, bending under the burden, have become so many catenaries, so many chaplets of limpid gems, graceful chaplets arranged in exquisite order and following the curve of a swing.
The Life of the Spider
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In Weihai, a clear city certified by Chinese authorities, you can expect to enjoy the most limpid sea water along China's coast.
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The limpidity of intellect she enjoyed for most of her wretched life was inborn.
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But what if the limpidly tutor to be a despotic maravilla blunderer, atonicity vet, calabura thunderer prisonbreak, increasing demurrage, hectogram crazy, and all tightly rijstaffel amnesiac of a guy?
Rational Review
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For the limpid quality of the water here, the colour of the coral and variety of fish, it's the place for your final sundowner, breathtaking and unforgettable.
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Beyond the white sand lapped the limpid sea.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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He called some well-characterized species of _septaria_ in my cabinet _pudding-stone, _ beautiful specimens of limpid hexagonal crystals of quartz, _common quartz_, &c.Mr. George P. Marsh, of Vermont, brings me a letter of introduction.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
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Shields shares with fellow Canadian Alice Munro not only her Ontario milieu but also a gift for psychological acuity expressed in limpid, shimmering prose.
Unless: Summary and book reviews of Unless by Carol Shields.
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Octet featuring the limpid piano of Marc Laginha, Django Bates on tenor horn.
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_ Nigro-viridis; capite piceo apud oculos albido; antennis rufescentibus; thorace vitta abdomineque fasciis cinereis; pedibus nigris; alis limpidis, vittis tribus nigris, prima postice abbreviata, secunda tertiaque latis; halteribus albidis.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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_ Nigro-viridis; capite antennisque testaceis, articulo tertio brevi, arista plumosa; abdomine atro; pedibus testaceis, femoribus nigris; alis albo limpidis, strigis duabus apiceque nigro-cinereis, fasciis tribus satis nigricantibus; halteribus albis.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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A man's life, like a great river, may be limpid-pure in the beginning, and when near its source; as it grows and gains strength it is inevitably sullied and stained with earth's soilure.
The Man Shakespeare
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Elsewhere there were wonderful moments of limpidity – as the first movement reaches its development, and in the intermezzo above all.
Lucerne Festival Orchestra – review
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Head testaceous, face transverse; antennæ testaceous, third joint elongate-conical; arista bare; abdomen blackish blue, second segment very large, third and following not visible; legs testaceous; wings limpid, with four transverse pale brown subcostal streaks; discal transverse vein parted by less than half its length from the border, and by less than its length from the flexure of the præbrachial; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The waters of the lake are limpid, the colour of jade, and reflect the surrounding beauty of the peaks and trees.
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could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool
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Finally, several of Gornik's charcoal drawings, such as Roman Light, represent dark trees against clear, watery skies with a limpidity and directness that evoke landscape photogravure.
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Fluttering melodic figures, submerged in whole-tone scales and rippling intervals, escaped into the air only to evaporate into a limpid, Wagnerian fog, specked by floating dissonances.
An Otherworldly Opera
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Star Pond, set to its limpid depths with the heavenly gems, glittered and darkled with its million diamond incrustations.
The Flaming Jewel
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He knows where the work's heart lies and how to conjure its spell from the music 's limpid simplicity and antiquarian turns of phrase.
Times, Sunday Times
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Limpid and garnet-coloured, darkened by purple tints.
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Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser.
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Don't try to impress someone by thesaurusizing your email with terms you wouldn't use in person - it sounds diaphanous, limpid, and transpicuous.
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It is a more limpid and beautiful piece of music than you might expect from a band known for live performances that regularly culminate in unpredictable, slightly disturbing onstage violence.
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Nigra; capite testaceo apud oculos albido, fronte ochracea; antennis piceis basi rufescentibus; thorace vitta lata cana; abdomine fulvo, disco nigro cupreo; pedibus fulvis, femoribus anticis apice tibiisque anticis basi nigris; alis sublimpidis, fascia media lata postice abbreviata guttam limpidam subcostalem includente lineaque transversa exteriore nigricantibus; halteribus testaceis.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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So this limpid, adorable film is also a tough, matter-of-fact portrait of the everyday, not a sentimental, redemptive whitewash.
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_ Testacea; capite guttis tribus nigris; thorace disco antico vittisque duabus posterioribus nigris; tibiis tarsisque anticis piceis, tibiis posticis subpiceis; alis subfuscescentibus, fascia lata limpida nigricante marginata postice abbreviata.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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If the tide was up, the limpid water would wash up against the sea defences, and the smaller sailing boats that infest the river would tack right up to the sea wall.
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Its flatiron-shaped pebble-beach jutted out from the lake's west shore and was covered with fine old forest trees garlanded with vines; and from their graveled rootage there gurgled a limpid spring of sweet waters.
James Fenimore Cooper
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Herself the only daughter of a struggling man of letters, she had during the last year or two taken to writing poems, in an endeavour to find a congenial channel in which to let flow her painfully embayed emotions, whose former limpidity and sparkle seemed departing in the stagnation caused by the routine of a practical household and the gloom of bearing children to a commonplace father.
Wessex Tales
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Without turning her character into an icon, the camera seems almost transfixed by the limpid beauty and stillness of Loftus.
Times, Sunday Times
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Head of the female black, shining; thorax with two brown bands which are paler and indistinct hindward; abdomen with a broad black band on each segment; tarsi blackish towards the tips; wings nearly limpid, yellowish along the costa, veins exteriorly with very broad brownish borders, stigma blackish brown.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The four-meter-thick walls are as solid as ever, and swans still glide over the moat's limpid waters.
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Margalo is a wounded bird with huge limpid eyes, and Stuart is smitten.
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Anne looked at her with eyes limpid with sympathy.
Anne of Green Gables
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Her eyes were large and limpid, but definitely not innocent.
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Nigra; capite testaceo apud oculos albido, fronte ochracea; antennis piceis basi rufescentibus; thorace vitta lata cana; abdomine fulvo, disco nigro cupreo; pedibus fulvis, femoribus anticis apice tibiisque anticis basi nigris; alis sublimpidis, fascia media lata postice abbreviata guttam limpidam subcostalem includente lineaque transversa exteriore nigricantibus; halteribus testaceis.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Perhaps the most notable of these celebrations is found in ‘River Music’, a three-part sequence in which he tried to draw a connection between the limpidity to which the medium lends itself and his own poetic ideal.
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Hugh's ears are pointed and his eyes are like these limpid pools I keep hearing so much about.
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This is a beautiful beryl gem of purest water, eight-faceted, well cut, clear and limpid, possessed of all good qualities and through it is strung a blue, yellow, red, white or brown thread.
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Ryann crouched in the cell, her eyes wet, her gaze limpid.
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Fluttering melodic figures, submerged in whole-tone scales and rippling intervals, escaped into the air only to evaporate into a limpid, Wagnerian fog, specked by floating dissonances.
An Otherworldly Opera
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A simple accompaniment serves as a baseline from which a limpid melody explodes into a dizzy display of vocal pyrotechnics.
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Anyone unfamiliar with his limpid mind can catch up quickly in his short new book, a compendium of earlier themes, which includes a reminder of his background.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its limpid pools, vivid colours and unusual plants will reinforce your sense of tranquility and equanimity.
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Garcia, with his classic dark looks and limpid brown eyes, knows all too well how easy it is for his female students to fall in love.
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Looking down into the limpid quiet, where everything is so familiar, yet so alien, the eye sees, beyond those mysterious green glades, habitations of the water-country, twisted of chimney as an elfin chateau, blurred replicas of some cottage on the bank, wavering in outline and impossible in perspective.
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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Greed is the impetus of corporate fraud, integrity, justice, limpidity and responsibility are basic to corporate sustainable growth.
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The following ‘Largo’ runs longer than most, but I'd not have it a moment less: limpidly beautiful and, yes, a bit Romantic, like a Mendelssohn andante.
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I was beginning to feel all tingly as he gazed into the limpid pool of my eyes and professed his honorable intentions.
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Without turning her character into an icon, the camera seems almost transfixed by the limpid beauty and stillness of Loftus.
Times, Sunday Times
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Albertine and I, as he sprang to earth, the passenger who had gone up like that to enjoy at large in those solitary expanses the calm and limpidity of evening.
The Captive
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Three limpid watercolors reveal their development through a few washes applied to a pencil or ink line drawing, providing more graphic than chromatic complexity.
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Woolf and Lawrence come out of a Judeo-Christian and European tradition; their magic is a limpid, beautiful “mysticism.”
2009 March 02 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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There was a rudimentary path leading towards a sapphire-blue limpid pool of water into which a natural spring cascaded down the plateau face.
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The limpid green eyes are friendly and engaging.
Times, Sunday Times
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Overall, the tonal balance, flattening of forms, and coolness of coloring combine to project a feeling of utter limpidity.
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With her limpid touch and palpable feeling for the unfolding of form, she avoids excessive emphasis, but firmness is there when called for.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its limpid pools, vivid colours and unusual plants will reinforce your sense of tranquility and equanimity.
