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Cool photo – I love the irridescence in the bubbles.
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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
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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
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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
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Here Marin County offers contours of dimpled velvet bursting with a gay irridescence of wildflowers.
The Native Son Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921
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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
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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
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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."
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