And power transformers atop lightpoles bloomed into nacreous purple light, spitting catherine-wheel sparks.
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The sky outside the window was pale, ethereal, marbled with nascent, nacreous cloud.
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There were no stars, no glowing orb, no nacreous, shimmering clouds.
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The hedges to either side brandish spikes edged with a nacreous rind of blight.
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Going by the nacreous glow from below, whatever is waiting for us is downstairs in the basement.
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Pale silver-pink, a nacreous translucence.
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They are covered with a smooth, safe, nacreous layer to let them slip, pearllike, from our souls without real pain.
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Then, as Bowman's eyes grew accustomed to the nacreous glow that filled the heavens, he became aware of another detail.
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Mo leans forward, careful to stay within her ward (which glows pale blue, the nacreous glimmer washing over her feet).
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Sometimes the humblest slave is visited in his slumbers by some radiant and lovely vision, with ideal forms, nacreous flesh, ambrosial hair.
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Arabesques proceeded from lozenges of lapis lazuli, wove their patterns on the cupolas where, on nacreous marquetry, crept rainbow gleams and prismatic flames.
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Its vast carapace was the nacreous white that she'd seen in the walls of the ruins, but there was nothing architectural about this.
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When they felt the vibrations of the approaching diver, they would snap shut-andthere would be a momentary, nacreous flicker in the gloom.
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The suffering angel, whose face was usually so sweet, was transformed in every feature, while her eyes swam, showing balls of a nacreous blue.
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Here, we show that nacreous sections can exhibit complete brittle fracture along the tablet interfaces at the proportional limit under pure shear stresses of torsion.
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Five-fingered and slender, only smooth fingertips without nails and skin the alien, nacreous black of pure pitch distinguished them from the hands of human children.