Of hopes born, rainbow-like, of smiles and tears. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828)] Reference
Moon Stone pale white with some rainbow-like reflections. From Wordnik.com. [News from the Nose: Get Cozy with Roses et Chocolat] Reference
Perhaps a rainbow-like stack around the application icon would look nice. From Wordnik.com. [Win 7 Vs Mac OS X Leopard: Feature-by-Feature Showdown | Lifehacker Australia] Reference
A glory is a rainbow-like ring most often seen below an airplane, usually on a cloud. From Wordnik.com. [Is it an angel? Is it Jesus? Is it our Lady of the cruising altitude? No, it's a glory] Reference
The rainbow-like column connotes the color palette of Wayne Thiebaud, a fellow figurative painter from the Bay Area. From Wordnik.com. [ArtScene: Art Built From the Inside That's Not Just for Insiders] Reference
They start to take on darker colors and some take on a rainbow-like appearance after being in the rivers for awhile. From Wordnik.com. [I am just really getting into fishing and am wondering what is the difference between steelhead and rainbow trout?] Reference
But now, the recent viral video of two Brooklyn dudes reacting to last week's tornado with double rainbow-like enthusiasm has gotten the obligatory auto-tune treatment as well. From Wordnik.com. ['Dude It's F***ing Funneling!' Guys Get The Obligatory Auto-Tune Treatment (VIDEO)] Reference
In summary, I don't see any reason to put up with all with all that recoil and those rainbow-like trajectories when a flat-shooting, shoulder friendly round can do the same thing. From Wordnik.com. [Are you a "Keith" style big bullet fan or a "Cactus Jack" style small bullet high velocity fan? Why do you feel that way?] Reference
If almost any clear, colorless facetted stone is placed in the sunlight and a card held before it to receive the reflections, it will be seen that rainbow-like reflections appear on the card. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
A mingled gust of feeling crosses over me, rainbow-like, -- fraught with the checkered remembrances of "life's eventful history," when I turn to the past, and glance over the scenes of my early life. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 375, June 13, 1829] Reference
The former is a blue and red rainbow-like finish on an all-silver blade; the latter is a black blade with gold stripes, a gold body and an orange-red fly trailer that promises to be particularly good for river fishing. From Wordnik.com. [Panther Martin] Reference
Such oil floats on the aqueous liquid; and a very few drops spread for an incredible distance as an exceedingly thin film, causing those brilliant rainbow-like colours which are sometimes imagined to be a sign of decomposing organic matter. From Wordnik.com. [Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use] Reference
A less obvious reveler was Clive Bell, the Bloomsbury art critic, while among the ladies "Miss Elizabeth Ponsonby looked most attractive in a silk bathing costume of which the lower part was red and the bodice rainbow-like with its stripes of blue and red.". From Wordnik.com. ['Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'] Reference
The quiet, flowering world shimmered rainbow-like. From Wordnik.com. [The Brimming Cup] Reference
One of them gleamed with rainbow-like, almost dazzling light. From Wordnik.com. [An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story] Reference
As it continues to spread, it becomes a thinner, rainbow-like layer called a sheen. From Wordnik.com. [Homepage] Reference
An unusual, rainbow-like phenomenon called a "sundog" was captured this week by reader. From Wordnik.com. [The Orange County Register - News Headlines : Top Stories] Reference
The jewels seemed to fill the room with a flashing, amazing, coruscant glamour, rainbow-like. From Wordnik.com. [The Brass Bowl] Reference
There it stood, -- beauty, like an eternal halo, sitting rainbow-like upon its towers and pinnacles. From Wordnik.com. [Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge] Reference
Here indeed the phantom of Hope seems to gleam forth rainbow-like even amidst the foul mists of the Maelström!. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 28, 1893] Reference
The data were taken by Spitzer's infrared spectrograph, which splits light open to reveal its rainbow-like components. From Wordnik.com. [Image Gallery] Reference
Blended with metallic coatings, the materials, dubbed SpectraFlair, cause the coatings to glisten with faint rainbow-like hues. From Wordnik.com. [Purchasing - Top Stories] Reference
Horse-hair furniture in all the glory of endless "tidies" was arranged against walls bedight with a rainbow-like wilderness of morning-glories. From Wordnik.com. [The Panchronicon] Reference
Though it is undeniably cool to think of growing demon wings out of your back, I found the Malefic coloring to be to rainbow-like for my blood. From Wordnik.com. [WoW.com] Reference
It looked larger round than Mr Preddle's and there was a peculiar, light, rainbow-like look around it as if I was gazing at him through a spy-glass. From Wordnik.com. [Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea] Reference
The astronomers looked at their candidate stars with Spitzer's spectrograph - an instrument that breaks light apart to reveal its rainbow-like array of infrared colors. From Wordnik.com. [Universe Today] Reference
Griselda soon, she kept assuring herself, and though the date of her departure always moved forward, rainbow-like at her approach, she found much comfort in following it. From Wordnik.com. ['Lizbeth of the Dale] Reference
The steam from the air-compressing engine, furnishing the necessary motive power for the drills that still worked in the hills, curled upward in billowy, rainbow-like coloring. From Wordnik.com. [The Cross-Cut] Reference
Mushishi 9: Since the first 26 chapters are the same as what we've seen in the anime, this is yet another familiar segment, this time about a man chasing after a rainbow-like mushi. From Wordnik.com. [Comments for Azure Flame] Reference
The windows of the chapel are entirely composed of stained glass, and as the sunbeams strike upon them, their tints of crimson, blue, and orange blend into a rainbow-like harmony of glowing and lustrous color, which recalls the heart of Louis. From Wordnik.com. [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference
Shakspeare, that the very essence of the former consists in the sternest separation of the diverse in kind and the disparate in the degree, whilst the latter delights in interlacing by a rainbow-like transfusion of hues the one with the other. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Remains, Volume 2] Reference
A little after nine o'clock in the evening it was very clear, and the southern lights were exceeding bright and beautiful, and appeared of a semi-circular or rainbow-like form, whose two extremities were nearly in the east and west points of the horizon. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14] Reference
And then, on the way home, after trying out my very first console game Katamari Damacy) with seuzen), there was a columnar rainbow in the sky--at least, there was a patch of sky that was rainbow-like. From Wordnik.com. [atmosphere and sky] Reference
So Love, rainbow-like, smiles through sadness and tears. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses] Reference
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