What is "limpid"

Usage examples of "limpid".

These latter cells are filled with limpid fluid, which after long immersion in alcohol deposits much brown matter.

Next he had been a Chief Geologist, chairborne director of youngsters, now and then tackling a muddled report with Theory of Least Squares and Gibbs Phase Rule that magically separated dross from limpid fact .

Cordula, but the caller turned out to be an old schoolmate, and Cordula feigned limpid delight, while making big eyes at Van over the receiver, and invented a number of unconvincing engagements.

Thee in thy favourite fields, where the limpid, gently-rolling Thames washes thy Etonian banks, in early youth I have worshipped.

Limpid as a nun, he thought grumpily of her graceful, calm profile, and then saw that face flushed and sweating, still patent under a barrage of noise, heat, the incessant drunken bellowing of orders, with only the faint tension in her mouth as she hoisted a tray high above heedless roisterers, betraying her weariness.

It was a beautiful place where whitewater rapids that tumbled into limpid pools, and doll-like VR manifestations of the kids clambered past sheer rocky walls.

With an art founded on Paolo Veronese, he produced decorative ceilings and panels of high quality, with wonderful invention, a limpid brush, and a light flaky color peculiarly appropriate to the walls of churches and palaces.

The limpid waters of the Red Creek flowed under an arch of casuannas, banksias, and gigantic gum-trees.

But more beautiful than the fall is the stream itself, foaming down through the bowlders, or lying in deep limpid pools which reflect the sky and the forest.

After the granules of protoplasm have been thus attracted, the layer of flowing protoplasm can no longer be distinguished, though a current of limpid fluid still flows round the walls.

And this change in the glands, whether excited directly, or indirectly by a stimulus received from other glands, is transmitted from cell to cell, causing granules of protoplasm either to be actually generated in the previously limpid fluid or to coalesce and thus to become visible.

A limpid torrent goes whistling down the glen, and toward the foot of it winds through a narrow cleft between lofty precipices and hurls itself over a succession of falls.

Four limpid fountains from the clefts distil, And every fountain pours a several rill In mazy windings wandering down the hill, Where bloomy meads with vivid greens were crowned, And glowing violets threw odours round.

Its rotundity was first lost, it assumed the semblance of a featureless disk of pallid light, which swiftly widened till it obscured all else, then seemed to advance upon and envelope her bodily, so that she became spiritually a part of it, an atom of identity engulfed in a limpid world of glareless light, light that had had no rays and issued from no source but was circumambient and universal.

Her cattle were mostly Charolais, she told him' burly white, amiable-looking beasts with broad faces and dark, limpid eyes.