This gives a good imitation of phosphorescence, as well as a slight pearliness, whilst the tinsel, seen through the paint and the curious Milkiness of the glass, gives good "fire."
"The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones"
John Mastin
Septimius blushed, but held his peace, and the conversation languished after this; the doctor grimly smoking his pipe, and by no means increasing the Milkiness of his mood by frequent applications to the black bottle, until Septimius intimated that he would like to go to bed.
"Septimius Felton or, The Elixir of Life"
Nathaniel Hawthorne
We must soften into a credulity below the Milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke