As the storm dissipated and the sun came out, the sky filled with nacreous clouds. From LearnThat.org.
Unofficial Neal Asher drinking game: take a shot whenever he uses the words "nacreous" or "actinic.". From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: Prador Moon by Neal Asher] Reference
The front gate was nacreous: surely genuine pearl. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Adept]
He tapped one long nail against his nacreous teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Dancer]
More on nacreous or polar stratospheric clouds, link. From Wordnik.com. [Nacreous Cloud] Reference
The mare switched her nacreous tail and lifted her head. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Adept]
Just a hint of predawn light turned the shadows nacreous. From Wordnik.com. [The Kaisho]
Dawn broke in fiery clouds and nacreous mist on the plain. From Wordnik.com. [Three Worlds To Conquer]
There were no stars, no glowing orb, no nacreous, shimmering clouds. From Wordnik.com. [The Mammoth Hunters]
Over there another one, larger still, nacreous, with faint striations. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
The cause of the Central Sun's nacreous light was now clearly visible. From Wordnik.com. [Against The Fall Of Night]
He blinked, saw the slidewalk, a nacreous ribbon stretching between emptiness. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer's Illusion]
Shadows moved furtively in that nacreous light, though no clouds crossed the moon. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Unconquered]
Their constellations lost in the nacreous luminance, she was rarely sure which she saw. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
The water was invisible beneath the curling layer of nacreous mist, father, Nicholas thought. From Wordnik.com. [The Kaisho]
The entire structure was enveloped in a pale, nacreous effulgence redolent of St. Elmo's fire. From Wordnik.com. [Cyber Way]
A shell forms upon the soft soul, nacreous, shiny, upon which sensations tap their beaks in vain. From Wordnik.com. [The Waves] Reference
She wore the brief nacreous gown and crystaflex sandals in which she had been taken from the palace. From Wordnik.com. [The Rebel Worlds]
She wore a thin gold chain from which a single pearl dangled, set in a golden nest like a nacreous egg. From Wordnik.com. [Devil's Waltz]
“Professor Peddick, you must at least see my globe-eyed nacreous ryunkin tonight,” Colonel Mering said. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
His head was golden, his mane silver, and his body a nacreous gray deepening into black fetlocks and hooves. From Wordnik.com. [Split Infinity]
I turned then towards the east and saw the light bloom over the desert with the nacreous glow of pearly oyster-shells. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
It is an essentially beautiful and satisfying contribution to modern painting, this nacreous cubism of Marie Laurencin. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
Then, as Bowman's eyes grew accustomed to the nacreous glow that filled the heavens, he became aware of another detail. From Wordnik.com. [2001 A Space Odyssey]
The nacreous ones were small and oval, and they floated along in a line like fat iridescent pearls on an invisible thread. From Wordnik.com. [Terra Incognita]
Rare carpets covered mosaicked floors, and bore furnishings inlaid with nacreous mother-of-pearl and deep blue lapis-lazuli. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Invincible]
Suddenly he glowed, a nacreous radiance that filled the twilit room, a smell of incense and a twitter of pipes through its bleakness. From Wordnik.com. [The Unicorn Trade]
These NASA photos show nacreous clouds in the troposphere -- these are clouds that look like "a merger between a cloud and a rainbow.". From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: July 30, 2006 - August 5, 2006 Archives] Reference
I am worth more, for it is I who bring them forth, sing them forth - luminous nacreous spheres tumbling forth, scattering on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Valentines, part the first] Reference
Compared with most lower altitude clouds, nacreous clouds stand almost still - an indicator of their great height some 9 -16 miles high. From Wordnik.com. [Photo Op] Reference
The ocean world lay close beneath her, shining with nacreous beauty, awaiting her with promises of wonder and a mystery yet to be solved. From Wordnik.com. [Cachalot]
The pearl is nothing but a nacreous formation, deposited in. From Wordnik.com. [Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English] Reference
Ode your nacreous jewelry in an aluminum dish and sprinkle generously with baking soda. From Wordnik.com. [Top Information about Home Management] Reference
Ballade your nacreous jewelry in an aluminum dish and sprinkle generously with baking soda. From Wordnik.com. [Top Information about Home Management] Reference
A similar, mysterious abundance of nacreous clouds occurred in January 2008; it could be happening again. From Wordnik.com. [My[confined]Space] Reference
(Fig. 231.) Shell oblong, oval, substance nacreous; surface ornamented with from three to five radiating ridges. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
Dubbed the "Palawan Princess", the gargantuan non-nacreous pearl has been valued at as much as GBP250,000 (USD400,000). From Wordnik.com. [Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine] Reference
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