How To Use Luce In A Sentence
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The 'American Empire' of the late 20th century, which Luce more politely referred to as the 'American Century', and of which no presidents since Eisenhower and JFK ever whispered the word 'Empire' while it actually existed, was already body-snatched by the time anyone other than Chomsky and Chalmers Johnson impolitely called it by its real name.
Barack Obama: Manchurian Candidate Version 2.0
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There be sixty-and-four flowers-de-luce, and the riddle is to show how I may remove six of these so that there may yet be an even number of the flowers in every row and every column.
The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems
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In addition, small chondral fragments are radiolucent and not evident on standard radiographs.
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After our eyes adjust, we find the walls to be a gorgeous translucent blue, the surface scalloped into smooth, symmetrical wavelets.
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It would have been dark except for the light coming from the translucent side panels.
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Living on an irrigation property on the banks of the Murray River, Ray's childhood was spent on the farm helping with flood irrigation, fencing, harvesting lucerne, shearing and crutching.
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Chop the half onion thinly and fry under low heat so that it becomes soft and translucent.
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In the 1990s, however, as managerialism began to dominate the university, translucence and opaqueness replaced transparency.
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Males tend to wear armor suits in shiny silver colors that covered their chests and private spots, while females dressed up with silk-like materials covering them from head to toe that were part translucent with a wide variety of tints.
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Hereafter no remittances shall be made for annates or for any other purpose to the court of Rome, the vice legation at Avignon, or to the nunciature at Lucerne.
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Its futuristic design features wind turbines instead of the traditional minarets, while a translucent latticed roof would replace the domes seen on most mosques.
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In an effort to keep pests off the parsnips we began cloaking the beds with Agrofabric, a translucent, permeable rowcover made of woven fiberglass.
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Tall grassland is scattered with hawkweed, ragwort, wild carrot and melilot flowers, along with clumps of bird's-foot trefoil, lucerne and goat's rue, and there are regular uprisings of brambles and wild rose, and sprawls of sallow and birch scrub.
Country Diary: Canvey Wick, Essex
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Bathed in natural light, underscored by blonde wood, and translucent glass partitions.
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Bruttia Sicanium circumspicit ora Pelorum? quid primum mediumue canam, quo fine quiescam? auratasne trabis an Mauros undique postis35 an picturata lucentia marmora uena mirer, an emissas per cuncta cubilia nymphas? huc oculis, huc mente trahor. uenerabile dicam lucorum senium? te, quae uada fluminis infra cernis, an ad siluas quae respicis, aula, tacentis, 40 qua tibi tuta quies offensaque turbine nullo nox silet et pigros inuitant murmura somnos? an quae graminea suscepta crepidine fumant balnea et impositum riuis algentibus ignem? quaque uaporiferis iunctus fornacibus amnis45 ridet anhelantis uicino flumine nymphas? uidi artis ueterumque manus uariisque metalla uiua modis. labor est auri memorare figuras aut ebur aut dignas digitis contingere gemmas; quicquid et argento primum uel in aere minori50 lusit et enormis manus est experta colossos. dum uagor aspectu uisusque per omnia duco, calcabam necopinus opes. nam splendor ab alto defluus et nitidum referentes aera testae monstrauere solum; uarias ubi picta per artis55 gaudet humus superatque nouis asarota figuris: expauere gradus.
A Villa at Tibur
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The useful products of the field are themselves beautiful; the sainfoin, the blue lucerne, the blood-red trifolium, the clear yellow of the mustard, give more definite colours, and all these are the merely useful, and, in that sense, the plainest of growths.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
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But now the first of five translucent duplex and triplex apartments in the building at 1055 Park Ave. has just gone into contract at what brokers say was a distressed price for the prime location — less than $1,850 a square foot.
Glass Condo, Rock-Bottom Price
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This would be better with some sort of backplate or translucent filling for the laser to shine on or through.
Aurora Watch Concept by Jihun Yeom » Yanko Design
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The branchia is translucent white with brown spots and white-tipped brown pinnules.
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The air—"translucent as wine," hymned one poet—quickens the heart.
City of Peace—and War
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While I had been sleeping the light outside became translucent.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Man-of-War floats on a gas-filled, blue to pink, translucent body called a pneumatophore.
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It was translucent and obviously a ghost or a close variation of a specter, bowing at the young scientist courteously.
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The steel frame is wrapped in thin sheets of translucent polycarbonate cladding that gently diffuses light like a fragile membrane of rice paper.
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Our home base was a huge glowing translucent submarine, shaped like a blimp.
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The atmospherics and mood seem less translucent than ever and the fact nobody can work out exactly what's happening in front of them, leaves the intriguing sense of curiosity and desire to see more.
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Take out the pancetta pieces, add a slug of olive oil and sweat the shallots until they are soft and translucent.
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The crystals range from nearly opaque through translucent to transparent.
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I closed the sliding windows, with translucent paper for window panes, called shoji, and went to bed, but the lack of privacy was fearful, and I have not yet sufficient trust in my fellow-creatures to be comfortable without locks, walls, or doors!
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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The belemnites sampled in this study were mostly translucent and retained the primary concentric banding that characterizes belemnite rostra.
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Bails of lucern, donated by farmers in the Maclear and Ugie areas, were due to be stockpiled for distribution later.
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Try applying a little translucent powder to lips after your lipstick.
The Sun
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Boucher's shepherdesses are not quite those manufactured in Nymphenburg and Meissen, although their complexions have something of the translucency of porcelain, whilst his herdsmen are streamlined terracotta.
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It is most beautiful, appearing translucent with a light corn silk color and streaks of black in its grainy looking material.
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For extra hold pat translucent powder or matching powder shadow on top.
The Sun
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Having coaled, Luce left Otranto behind, and with Glasgow and Monmouth steamed north up the Chilean coast.
Castles of Steel
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Whereas most walls were brick or concrete, her wall was made of a translucent stone.
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It acts as an intermediate space between the natural world and the artificial, and its effects of light and shadow, transparency, translucency and even opacity alter constantly with weather, time and season.
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It has a juicy, translucent flesh with a similar taste to a lychee.
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I was happy to sit and look at the stuff floating around me; the minute translucent jellyfish, ctenophores and arrowfish.
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But beneath the translucent ivory skin, he was rather bronzed, due to the long hours under the sun.
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As his eye gives the impression of floating over the landscape, his liking for gouache over a pastel ground give what David Britton calls ‘an ethereal quality, where translucent layers of colour float over a solid base’.
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The lipsticks, eye shadows, blushes and translucent powder in this kit will help transform your looks in no time.
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Made in two formulations, normal to dry and normal to oily, this translucent powder will mattify and give your skin an even-toned appearance.
Makeup Minute
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A completely irrational white translucent roof undulates over the space like a gentle cloud, or the sky seen from under water on a pellucid day.
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These rocks also stirred with novel species of eyeless shrimp, white crabs, translucent sea anemones and large, pink fish.
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Players bought a translucent anglerfish at six times the rate of other sea creatures, using an imaginary currency people get by playing the game.
Virtual Products, Real Profits
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Furnished sparely with two easels and several chairs to underscore the physical proximity of the artists when they inhabited the studio together, it was enclosed by gauzy translucent walls so that it could be peered into but not entered.
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Engineers at Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs have taken a significant step towards developing electronic paper-like displays.
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That this is merely surface coloring is shown by the fact that hydro-chloric acid will discharge the color and leave the grains translucent.
The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890
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Some green manures, legumes such as lucerne and field beans, also have the ability to take nitrogen from the air and fix it into nodules in their roots.
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OK, you sauté the onions in a thin coating of oil or butter, but to translucence, not caramelization.
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The luce is the fresh fish, the salt fish is an old coat.
Literary Remains, Volume 2
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The thick, translucent slices were encased in a light batter that was appropriately oily.
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In brighter mazes the relucent ftream Plays o'er the mead.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical
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Through his translucent skin showed the blue veins, his insides as visible and vulnerable as a tiny transparent shrimp.
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So far, so predictable, but its huge flanks are encased in a delicately ribbed translucent skin that scintillates arrestingly with both natural and artificial light.
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Steel pole, fibreglass ribs, colorful crystal handle, colorful nylon cloth cover, translucent plastic film packing, both for rainy and sunny use.
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Here and there, indeed, were smooth patches which we called bowling-greens, but hard and slippery as polished marble, with much the same translucent appearance.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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Add onion, fennel, and garlic, and cook until onion is translucent; be careful not to burn garlic.
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Take flower-de-luces, stalk, blossom, root, together; then decoct them over a slack fire; and with the liquid bathe your eyes several times a day; you will most certainly be cured of that weakness; but see that you purge first, and then go forward with the lotion.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
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If not an error on the same scale as Ballantyne's famous unhusked coconuts, the translucent Pacific water is clearly a high-order inaccuracy.
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Other marketplace standards that made the ‘Workspheres’ cut include bewitching Apple computer products, such as a translucent, sculpturesque G4 Cube computer and a highly desirable, wafer-thin, oversized monitor.
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I love the way silk catches the light and becomes translucent.
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Most natural corundum is of industrial quality, but transparent to translucent varieties with their adamantine to vitreous luster potentially yield gemstones.
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It is a fine place to dream in, with falls, cascades, cool rocks lined with hypnum three inches thick; shaded with maple, dogwood, alder, willow; grand clumps of lady-ferns where no hand may touch them; light filtering through translucent leaves; oaks fifty feet high; lilies eight feet high in a filled lake basin near by, and the finest libocedrus groves and tallest ferns and goldenrods.
The Yosemite
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When Bevans circled around to try to get to Luce to help him, his snowmachine also broke through the ice.
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On the top floor, the dragon is in the air, with writhing translucent light-filled ceilings and walls curvaceously sculpted to make benches, cupboards and seats.
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A translucent head which was little more than a gelatinous bag closed over the mayor's head like a caul.
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A shallow gabled roof covered with translucent fiberglass shelters the area from rain and drizzle without blocking the light.
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On top of it all was a flimsy, translucent material embedding the palm trees picture.
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The writer equated ‘its shell-like translucency [with] the finest old Chinese porcelain.’
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Observe that it is colorless and either transparent or translucent, and when poured from one vessel to another is glairy and more or less adhesive.
A Practical Physiology
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Slice the onions and brown in the oil in a non-stick frying pan, adding the mushrooms when the onions have become translucent and light brown.
The Sun
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Although myofibroma of the jawbones is a rare lesion, it should be considered in the differential diagnosis of unilocular radiolucent lesions in the mandible, especially in children.
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His flesh as unsubstantial as cobwebs, veins and arteries, tendons and muscles all clear beneath the ethereal shine of translucent skin.
Earl of Durkness
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The unusual roof, which is made of a translucent fiberglass fabric, allows for natural grass, which players appreciate.
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They were the first to use kaolin clay for porcelains, so that when thin enough, the walls revealed breathtaking translucency.
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Dice the sweet onion and cook in a pan in olive oil until translucent and soft.
Times, Sunday Times
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His paintings are full of erasures, redrawn lines and strokes partially covered with translucent white paint.
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Oriental alabaster, the alabastrites of the classical writers, is a translucent marble (calcium carbonate) obtained from stalagmitic deposits; because of its usually banded structure, which gives it some resemblance to onyx, it is also called onyx marble, or simply, though incorrectly, onyx.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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These rocks also stirred with novel species of eyeless shrimp, white crabs, translucent sea anemones and large, pink fish.
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Badly mixed oil paints become translucent with age and the artist's 'pentimenti', or alterations, are often revealed with time.
Times, Sunday Times
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With Nortel and Alcatel-Lucent (a ALU) having retreated from the WiMAX market, one wonders: Who is going to win [...]
Our Readers Take on the LTE v. WiMAX Debate
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One example, noted by spy novelist Jeremy Duns, is this passage from "Assassin of Secrets": "Then he saw her, behind the fountain, a small light, dim but growing to illuminate her as she stood naked but for a thin, translucent nightdress; her hair undone and falling to her waist—hair and the thin material moving and blowing as though caught in a silent zephyr.
Spy Thriller: 'An Instant Classic' Vanishes Amid Plagiarism Charges
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Silvery fish with scales like pearls and translucent blue fins like moonlight swam through the clear, cold water, hiding underneath duckweed and water-flowers floating above the pond's surface.
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The rich Tartars somtimes fur their gowns with pelluce or silke shag, which is exceeding soft, light, and warme.
The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
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Were we, class?) So when Tyler finally handed over the weird, translucent, egg-shaped moonstone and Mason immediately brought it to Katherine, I didn't let out a full-on gasp.
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The pages in Skuodas's books resemble broadsheets, and are rich in textural effects that include handwoven strips of painted or translucent paper.
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Other features include a large louvered power sunroof and detachable, translucent door pockets.
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The Code wasn't simply about getting rid of naughty words or translucent costumes.
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Obscurata diu populo bonus eruet, atque Proferet in lucem speciosa vocabula rerum, Quae priscis memorala Calonibus alque Cethegis, Nunc situs informis premit et deserta velustas: Adsciscet nova, quae genitor produxerit usus: Vehemens, et liquidus, puroque simillimus amni, Fundet opes Latiumque beabit divile lingua. [
Life Of Johnson
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Gently fry the onions and garlic in butter and chilli oil till soft and translucent.
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For a matte effect with any lippy, lightly dust with translucent powder.
The Sun
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The bed was surrounded by semitranslucent plastic curtains that made it impossible to identify the figure lying on it.
The Overload Protocol
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It was there that they discovered Reuben lacked two amino acids called leucine and isoluceine.
Home | Mail Online
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Spikelets are obovoid or lanceolate, 1 - to 2-flowered, persistent on their stalks, one to three in an involucel.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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As tragic events unfolded in Europe, Luce ran his thriving magazine empire with an odious tilt.
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Multiple layers of nets stretched over the structural frame create a dramatic and ever-changing play of opacity and translucency as the viewer moves in and around the installation.
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Photographs can also point out the extraordinary or magical in the seemingly irrelevant, as in Bolucevschi Vitali's prizewinning image of ants poised like dancers in stellar form.
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Both the blue and the yellow have the classic, satiny translucent petals of the poppy tribe, both, characteristically, are held on wiry stems above the parent plant.
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Her palette grew more complex and sophisticated - replete with lavenders, juicy oranges, translucent celadons, glowing viridians, wine reds and a range of blues from deep ultramarine to pale sky.
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Unprecedented in a translucence plastic body provides various types of color to provide a wide variety of choices to rider.
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To cover spots, match concealer to skin tone, dot on a small amount at a time and set with translucent powder to even out pores and minimise shine on the T-zone.
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Moist and translucent, it tastes like a mellow orange with a hint of lemon.
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The unusually fine clay yielded a porcelain china that was translucent with a glass-like finish.
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It's blackish and translucent, but it doesn't have a shadowlike solid outline.
Mistborn
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Dense foggy mornings, frosty nights, a lucent crown of brilliant red and golden leaves on the distant ridge.
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Why go outside when you can commune directly with the lucent dead?
Why Go Outside?
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The small mine dumps have produced the locality's most colorful datolites, which are translucent to almost transparent and occur in flesh tones with red speckling and veining.
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John: is changing his idea of making fenestration translucent on the ground level and transparent on the top.
Alla Kazovsky: Organizing Circulation
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Between these, a hundred jellyfish as delicate and as translucent as rose petals pulsate like butterflies.
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Then, the snacks will start appearing, in groups of two or three, each one on its own specially designed plate: pristine disks that look like elaborately decorated candies from a Parisian confiserie but taste of salty sesame; crisp, translucent rectangles of raspberry punched up with wasabi’s heat; a thin cracker that tastes purely and intensely of the juiciest tomato you’ve ever eaten.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
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Tall grassland is scattered with hawkweed, ragwort, wild carrot and melilot flowers, along with clumps of bird's-foot trefoil, lucerne and goat's rue, and there are regular uprisings of brambles and wild rose, and sprawls of sallow and birch scrub.
Country Diary: Canvey Wick, Essex
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His cod is must be among the best in Scotland, large translucent flakes, topped perhaps with a herb crust, a dollop of aioli and black olive tapenade.
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In the 19th century, all known translucent coloured enamels have a high lead content.
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Like the two bathrooms directly above it on the first floor, it, too, is daylit through a wall of translucent glass blocks.
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Last week, I slurped down filmy, translucent rice noodles and sang a song of fish sauce, but today I'm trading Southeast Asia for China.
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Bravely, I walked into a luscious-looking fromagerie in Lucerne and proudly asked the fromager for "un morceau de fromage suisse", hoping to buy some emmenthal.
Rigolo - French Word-A-Day
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Jim's eyes traveled past her to the garden in the rear of the house, where yellow flower-de-luce was beginning to blow.
Country Neighbors
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That side of the head had crystallized irregularly, revealing the cranial cavity, from which the semitranslucent light seemed to pour.
Crossed
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The company makes optical drives with translucent bezels and trays, complete with blue LED activity lights.
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The thumbs and halluces, or big toes, have two rows each, proximal and distal.
206 BONES
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On December 24, the parade known as Las Calendas fills the streets with floats from the different neighborhoods of the city, along with giant papier maché figures with people dancing inside them, and other marchers holding marmotas, translucent paper spheres lit from within and carried on poles.
Mexican holiday sweets: cookies, candy and more
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His skin was translucent with age.
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Most shelled opisthobranchs I know of are a translucent white in colour.
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Amber is a translucent, yellowish mineral made of fossilized resin.
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It's skin - he saw - was covered in a thin sheen of some translucent substance that glimmered tiny fish scales or mildew when it moved.
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‘That's chalcedony,’ Corissa remarked, her eyes focusing on the translucent gray capstones of the wall.
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The rocks began to assume a mantle of translucent ice that dripped in grey icicles from overhangs.
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The King, notwithstanding, changed this shield for arms representing a crown supported upon a sword between two flowers-de-luce and indicating clearly what was the aid that the Maid of God was bringing to the realm of France.
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
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An entire show had been cancelled and the theatre hall spruced up with translucent blue illumination and coloured-halogen lights that danced to the music on smoke screens.
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It's a really nice electro-acoustic guitar, with a cut-away body style and a beautiful flamed top finished in a translucent red.
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This translucent cover transmitted the light and sunshine necessary for the floricultural display beneath.
By Water to the Columbian Exposition
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Another case of arsenic poisoning was that of Claire Booth Luce, a United States ambassador to Italy in the years after World War II.
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The surface of smooth hairs appears even and often shiny, that of verrucose hairs slightly irregular and a little dull due to impeded translucence.
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A small difference between them will render the composite translucent.
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Skin texture is smoothed and refined, and the complexion becomes more even, translucent and bright.?
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In others, multiple radiopacities are seen within the radiolucent areas.
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Radiographic examination revealed an ill-defined radiolucent lesion at the joint area of the previous bone graft and the right mandibular angle.
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This sheer balm has a translucent pearl finish that highlights without glitter or sparkle.
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Pale pink toenails were visible through translucent hose.
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Scolecite is typically seen as a colorless to white, transparent to translucent mineral with a vitreous to silky luster.
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Fry until very soft and translucent.
Times, Sunday Times
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The plain, self-luminous with the weird lucence of the arid lands, showed ghostly.
Arizona Nights
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Layered battens, vines and translucent corrugated acrylic sheets on the west make a wall animated by shadow play on the inside, and a vertical garden outside.
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_Alfalfa_, or lucern, though grown more for a forage crop than for green manuring, should be mentioned here, for wherever grown and for whatever purpose, its effects on the soil are beneficial (Fig. 82).
The First Book of Farming
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Nacreous and Noctilucent clouds form not in the part of the atmosphere in which we live, but much higher up, in the stratosphere and mesosphere.
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The sleeves were made of a filmy, translucent red material, so insubstantial that it was almost not there.
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In the _centre of the large circle_ which surrounds the head, and just above the tablet, is a _large medallion_, with the sun behind a cloud, and round it "Et latet et lucet.
Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents
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Each cluster is made up of circular grapes of fiery black opals and delicately tooled gold leaves covered in translucent green enamel, spaced equally along the chain.
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Plutonites, also magmatic, form in conditions of extreme heat and pressure far deeper within the Earth; colourful translucent crystals such as aventurine, peridot and rose quartz are the result.
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I kept telling Bevans we had to keep moving to stay warm," Luce said.
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Outside, snow fell: fat flakes adhering to the windows and frosting the glass in translucent white.
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The radiolucent lesion was eccentrically located, multiloculated, and rimmed by a thin sclerotic zone.
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The lights have twinkled on in Lucern, spread below us, lancing golden shafts into the lake.
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When the rice turns translucent, pull the meat off the rabbit and add to the risotto.
Times, Sunday Times
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The business end is translucent and has some light emitting diodes inside.
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Karin Almonte , a 31-year-old messenger from Washington Heights, bemoaned the ban as he watched a man wave a wand that spawned giant, translucent bubbles near the bandshell just south of Central Park's Bethesda Terrace.
Hot Air Over City's New Smoking Ban
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Perhaps the best rhodochrosite specimen from this mining period, a lustrous, translucent red rhombohedron about 4 inches on edge, is now on exhibit in the Coors Mineral Hall of the Denver Museum of Natural History.
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First-trimester trisomy screening: nuchal translucency measurement training and quality assurance to correct and unify technique.
Prenatal Diagnosis
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Moore collected baseball-size gelatinous animals called salps and found their translucent tissues clogged with bits of monofilament fishing line and nurdles.
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His skin was almost translucent, and for a moment I longed to reach up and touch it, but I quickly pushed the impulse aside.
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Steel pole, fibreglass ribs, colorful crystal handle, colorful nylon cloth cover, translucent plastic film packing, both for rainy and sunny use.
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Many of his etymologies are rubbish: lucus a non lucendo.
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And some pale skin is translucent; you can almost see through it - you can see little veins.
Times, Sunday Times
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Black party hats with veils made of black pantyhose or some other translucent material can also be made.
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In a famous essay right after the Second World War, Time magazine founder Henry Luce referred to the twentieth century as the American century. To whom does the twenty-first century belong?
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Choose a translucent powder to blend with your skin tone and apply with a puff or brush.
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Luce tried to use his magazines to convert Americans to his ideas.
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The wrapper in this case is made primarily from tapioca starch, which imparts a translucent sheen to the roll.
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For the annatto oil, in a medium saucepan, heat the olive oil over medium heat, add the shallots, garlic, and annatto paste and saute until translucent.
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Blue veins showed through her translucent skin.
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This translucent ceramic can be advantageously used as, for example, a material for object lens (2) fitted to light pickup (9).
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Before him walked two footmen, leading by the bridle a white hackney, covered with a housing of blue velvet, besprinkled with flowers-de-luce and gold tissue.
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Noctilucent clouds are ragged extensions of a more widespread and more permanent layer which forms over the summer polar area at the mesopause.
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Guelder rose has dramatic clusters of brilliant, translucent scarlet berries.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you hold its leaves up to the light you will see translucent dots on them.
Times, Sunday Times
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Add the onion, garlic, and peppers and cook until the onion turns translucent.
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They were really, really light -- the paper was translucent and kind of crinkled -- so you could fill up to two or three pages and not rack up a fortune in stamps when you went to mail your letter.
Undefined
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She was thin, so nearly every bone protruded beneath translucent white skin and emaciated muscles.
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Its final disposition was in a deep and lonely mountain tarn, which, according to later tradition, was on a mountain, still called Pilatus actually pileatus or 'cloud-capped', close to Lucerne.
Archive 2005-03-20
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Glass mosaic tiles add a translucency and complexity that ceramic cannot match.
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This china is so fine and delicate that it's translucent.
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The unusually fine clay yielded a porcelain china that was translucent with a glass-like finish.
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An intravenous pyelogram was obtained and revealed a 5-cm radiolucent filling defect of the bladder.
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Videbam enim ibi post quandam cistam, quæ erat eis loco altaris, super quam ponunt lucernas et oblationes, quandam imaginationem habentem alas quasi Sancti
The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
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There are a variety of products you can use to coat your deck, from clear wood finishes to translucent to semi-transparent to solid-color stains.
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Finely chop shallots or onion and soften till translucent in a mixture of butter and olive oil.
Times, Sunday Times
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Outside, snow fell: fat flakes adhering to the windows and frosting the glass in translucent white.
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On the night stand was a translucent orb atop a triangular clock.
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They have very thin bodies and translucent wings, and look like little sparkles of light as they dart about.
Times, Sunday Times
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The slugs also preferred the leaves of lucerne, white clover and lupins, to the wheat plants.
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Unlike Lucent's debt, Revlon's $1.59 billion in debt is due relatively soon.
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I have, for instance, not even mentioned the sea, which swept smoother and smoother in toward the feet of those precipices and grew more and more trans-lucently purple and yellow and green, while half a score of cascades shot straight down their fronts in shafts of snowy foam, and over their pachydermatous shoulders streamed and hung long reaches of gray vines or mosses.
Roman Holidays, and Others
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We spurn from us with disgust and indignation the slanders of those who bring us their anecdotes with the attestation of the flower-de-luce on their shoulder.
Paras. 125-149
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Translucent lips pulled back from pearly teeth in a wicked grin.
