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Crystalline

adjective

Consisting of or containing or of the nature of crystals.

Distinctly or sharply outlined.

Transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity. Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent. "Crystal clear skies" , "Could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool" , "Lucid air" , "A pellucid brook" , "Transparent crystal"

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"Crystalline" Quotes from Famous Books

... crystalline clearness, and, looking over the gunwale, one could see far into the depths, where strange-looking fish were sporting, sometimes coming to the surface and then shooting far down beyond the reach of human vision. Now and then, too, as little Inez leaned over the side of the vessel and ...

— Adrift on the Pacific • Edward S. Ellis

... The unison passages that mount and recede were iridescent columns of mist painted by the moonlight and swaying rhythmically in the breeze. Here was something rare. No longer conscious of the technical side of the playing, so spiritualized was it, so crystalline the touch, Davos forgot his manners and slipped through the gateway, through the dark garden, toward an open window in which burned a solitary candle. The mystery of this window and the quicksilver dartings of the music—gods, what ...

— Visionaries • James Huneker

... little souls! as pure and white And crystalline as rays of light Direct from heaven, their source divine; Refracted through the mist of years, How red my setting sun appears, How lurid looks this soul ...

— Greetings from Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... happened to marry a girl whose greatest charm to him had been her tenderness of heart, her innocent candor, and that purity of mind which comes of hatred—not ignorance—of sin. A worldlier woman would not have been so shocked; but he had never desired less crystalline transparency of mind—less exquisite whiteness of soul, for Nan. No; that was the worst of it: the very qualities that he admired and respected in her bore ...

— Name and Fame - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... bush in their immediate neighbourhood, while other and more distant objects were momentarily stealing into view as the mist-wreaths thinned away and vanished. A few minutes later the entire landscape lay clearly revealed before them, sharp and distinct in the crystalline purity of the early ...

— With Airship and Submarine - A Tale of Adventure • Harry Collingwood

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