| 1. | Above the bridge the pond ran up into fringing groves of fir and maple and lay all darkly translucent in their wavering shadows. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 2. | There in the flickering light of the lamp was the machine sure enough, squat, ugly, and askew a thing of brass, ebony, ivory, and translucent glimmering quartz. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |