lucence

Right now they possessed the fugitive trans-lucence of smoke.

The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983

High in the ancient forest the magnolias burn the perfect alban lucence of their lamps; white are their ivory cups like priestly linen, and fragrant with the tang of foreign citrons.

Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country Hervey Allen 1919

Before us, thin as smoke in the magic lucence that flooded the world, rose other mountains, very great, lofty as the sky.

The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909

And then deliberately the whole universe turned faintly gray, and the smaller stars faded in the lucence of dawn, and the brief, weird world of half-light came into being.

The Adventures of Bobby Orde Stewart Edward White 1909

Then the low western horizon turned to a dark band between sky and water, and the heavens immediately above took on a pale green lucence of infinite depth.

The Adventures of Bobby Orde Stewart Edward White 1909

But now, as the darkness of the shadows deepened, and the light of water and sky took on a deeper lucence before being extinguished, for the first time the sense of pain and the incompleteness of beautiful things entered his heart.

The Adventures of Bobby Orde Stewart Edward White 1909

The plain, self-luminous with the weird lucence of the arid lands, showed ghostly.

Arizona Nights Stewart Edward White 1909

Before us, thin as smoke in the magic lucence that flooded the world, rose other mountains, very great, lofty as the sky.

The Mountains 1904

She gave herself time to adore the drapery, with its changes of meteoric lucence, before she rose and took it.

Fennel and Rue William Dean Howells 1878