One looks through an opaque veil of blinding crystals.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Southward from a strong point called Groenenburg, or "Green Bug" Farm, to opaque Wood by the Ypres-Comines Canal, the attack by the Cheshires, Wiltshires, Warwicks, Staffords, and Gloucesters was successful, though the enemy still holds out up to the time I write in Hessian Wood, where he is defending himself in a group of blockhouses against the Welsh Regiment and Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
Both are shams, but with this difference that the Conservative organisation is a transparent, and the Liberal an opaque, sham.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell