The philanthropy of to-day has a bewildering iridescence of aspect.

There is an iridescence to its glittering on bleached sand, blue bay, and Carrara façade that is sheer light distilled to its utmost.

Even under the trees it was not wholly dark, for the moon's light filtered through here and there, making a quaint patchwork on the ground, and filling the air with a peculiar iridescence which transformed the ragged trunks of the sycamores into fantastic hobgoblins.

There another glides over the surface with sinuous course, rowed by more oars than a Venetian galley, more brilliant in its iridescence than the barge of Cleopatra, albeit "The poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails.

Variegation N. variegation; colors, dichroism, trichroism; iridescence, play of colors, polychrome, maculation, spottiness, striae.

cambiante, m., iridescence; iridescent gleam, glint.

About the other state of affairswherein the woman's appurtenances of all kinds, as well as the woman herself, are significantis a delicate and subtle aura of the higher refinementthe long refinement of the spirit through many generationswhich, to an eye accustomed to look for gradations of moral beauty, possesses a peach-blow iridescence of its own.

III TAILS The secrets of Nature often play like an iridescence on the surface, and escape the eye of her worshipper because it is stopped with a microscope.

On the blackness of cork and ilex and cypress lay the green and purple lustres, the coppery iridescences, of old bronze; and night after night the skies were wine-blue and bubbling with stars.

Their green, their rose color, their intense yellow, their metallic iridescence, all their liquid tints are eternally glazed by a moist varnish which cannot exist in the atmospheric world.

In almost all of them Plattner was seen, sometimes singly, sometimes in company, wandering about through a coruscating iridescence.

That glittering is called 'iridescence.'

At a distance it only gives a suggestion of a soft bloom or iridescence on the surface of the marble.

She perceived the beauty of iridescence.

As she watched them with incurious eyes, marking them in the first light of the day, when their iridescence made them seem as impalpable as a dream of heaven; eyeing them in the noon-height, when their sides were the hue of ruddy granite; watching them at sunset when they faded from swimming gold to rose, from rose to purple, they seemed less like mountains than like those fair and fatal bergs of the Northern Atlantic.

Its shape was a smooth oval; its hue, even in that dim, wind-tossed light, showed a wondrous, tender opalescence that seemed to change and blend into rainbow iridescences as the staring Legionaries peered at it.

Instead, he had an ineffable sensation of contentment, a lightness of mind in which thought was sparklingly clear, turning from a turbid, opaque, green color to a liquid iridescence magical with tender rainbow tints.