"Semitransparent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... PISTACIA LENTISCUS.—The mastic tree, a native of southern Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia. Mastic is the resin of the tree and is obtained by making transverse incisions in the bark, from which it exudes in drops and hardens into small semitransparent tears. It is consumed in large quantities by the Turks for chewing to strengthen the gums and sweeten the breath. It is also used ...
— Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture • William Saunders
... idea came to Helen de Vallorbes, causing the delicate colour to spring into her cheeks, and the light into her eyes, veiled by those fringed, semitransparent lids. For, some two years earlier, Richard Calmady had taken her husband's villa at Naples on lease, it offering, as he said, a convenient pied a terre to him while yachting along the adjacent coasts, up the Black ...
— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet |
