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I only made it through the first ten minutes - it seemed to involve a lot of diaphonous drapery.
Wednesday: Blog about Women in Science & Technology Fresca 2010
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I just see mantras about this diaphonous "center" that, in the way you use it, seems to mean simply "that which would command a majority", but could also be interpreted as "I am conservative, and trying to bargain with increasingly strident opposition"
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Some writers have muses with raven tresses, diaphonous gowns, supple breasts and ruby lips.
Da Muse 2005
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Some writers have muses with raven tresses, diaphonous gowns, supple breasts and ruby lips.
Da Muse 2005
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In a diaphonous light, eight dogs rest on seven magnificent chairs.
Dogs on chairs 2007
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My masque's eyepieces are made from illum crystal, the perfect substance for capturing and magnifying the diaphonous tendrils of the visible Force.
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A darling bundle of hot pink Gerbera daisies and satiny white mums and delicate greens, bound with a diaphonous moss green ribbon.
weeme Diary Entry weeme 2003
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In place of her somber “end of the world” garment, there was a diaphonous Greek chiton that seemed to have been spun from the sheerest thread—from cobwebs.
Do Comets Dream? S. P. Somtow 2003
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Just as dinner was announced, Beth swept into the drawing-room in the best evening dress she had, a diaphonous black, set off by turquoise velvet, a combination which threw the beautiful milk-white of her skin into delicate relief.
The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand
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Coralie, herself, set to the task of winning him, was as unconscious of the subtly diaphonous mechanism of the trap as he.
andrew.simone commented on the word diaphonous
Don't you mean diaphanous?
December 6, 2006