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  • Cool photo – I love the irridescence in the bubbles.

    thankful for… « Adventures in Juggling 2008

  • Eyes similar, loss of greenness and irridescence of Spots, generally more pink, gills dark red, mottled, Appearance of some dark brown slime.

    Chapter 7 1983

  • So we are left with a mammoth scholarly and critical work that glistens with a kind of intellectual irridescence.

    The D-S Expedition: Part I Shattuck, Roger 1972

  • To this lamellar structure the irridescence is to be ascribed.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 570, October 13, 1832 Various

  • Here Marin County offers contours of dimpled velvet bursting with a gay irridescence of wildflowers.

    The Native Son Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921

  • She magnifies us inwards and outwards; her fields can lead the mind down towards the subtle beginning of things; the tiny irridescence of insects; the play of light upon the facets of a blade of grass.

    Hills and the Sea Hilaire Belloc 1911

  • If pure music, even with its immense sensuous appeal, is so easily tedious, what a universal yawn must meet the verbiage which develops nothing but its own irridescence.

    The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

  • Mr. Morley, too, gives a vivid picture of the time, saying that Italy of that date "presents some peculiarities that shed over her civilization a curious and deadly irridescence."

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

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