Word: limpidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silent form that lies here today is not the man we knew. The soul-the thing that gave him being, personality and force-is what we knew. It is beautiful that it should have chosen that limpid Easter Sunday to leave the tired body from which it has arisen to shine resplendent in the glorious achievements of a memorable life...
...limpid spring months he spent at an outlaw camp, favorite of the only woman -a girl whose hair had turned white with the War. Babka weaned him body and soul from the starvation of trenches and prison; then reluctantly sent him on, his identity of escaped prisoner well camouflaged by the clothes and identification-tag of dead Bjuscheff, Russian deserter...
...Large, limpid eyes of a light color, preferably blue...
...Jones with music by Debussy" . . . "as if Proust had rewritten The Arabian Nights" . . . "Don Quixote with a dash of Jane Austen" . . . fortunately the ancient Japanese document is no such mongrel monstrosity as all of this. But the reviewers' floundering tributes indicate something of its variegated appeal. In limpid prose The Tale combines curiously modern social satire with great charm of narrative. Translator Waley has done service to literature in salvaging to the Occident this masterpiece of the Orient written circa...
...lady and her well known sparring partner sisters under their respective skins, so does a stroll along the banks of the Charles reveal things which one never thought possible in this dear Cambridge. On a hot day, such as was the rare fortune yesterday, the upper reaches of the limpid stream resembled the Lido and Bailey's Beach more than a dignified and usually deserted river. Young Cambridge and a liberal assortment of canines disported themselves in the intriguing and unanalyzed waters, making whoopee all around Stillman and transforming Lief Ericson's monument into an apparatus for achieving that dark...