How To Use Pearl In A Sentence

Another category of vessels and flatware was distinguished by the use of precious stones or exotic materials, such as coral, mother-of-pearl, or coconut shell.
Clean dishes or perfect pearly whites? The Sun
I fancied up the dress with some pearls.
Price as tested is $44,600, including $8,525 in options Deep Sea Blue pearlescent paint, eight-speed Audi Tiptronic transmission, high-intensity discharge headlamps, power liftgate and onboard navigation with backup camera and an $875 destination charge. 2011 Audi Q5 2.0 T Quattro
Suzy Menkes noted in an article that the jewels the Duchess of Windsor gave Princess Michael included: ‘a gold sunburst suite set with pearls and a pair of emerald panther earrings.’

Pearl scurried about the deck, searching the pirate crew to find the captain.
Her skin was as white as pearl and very soft. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
It was purfled about the rim of the soundbox with trapezia of shimmering mother-of-pearl, and it had a black strikeplate in the shape of a clematis flower, inlaid with multicoloured blossoms that were purely the result of an exuberant craftsman's imagination. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
I offered a charming smile of my own, showing pearly teeth.
Donnelly's PNAC report -- a blueprint followed faithfully by the Bush Administration -- openly yearned for a "new Pearl Harbor" that would "catalyze" the American people into adopting PNAC's global militarist agenda wholesale. Undefined
His teeth were rows of perfectly set pearly whites, and he had a dimple in his left cheek.
That means pearly white skinless cod or haddock under a casing of crisp batter the colour of dark honey, served with golden chips. Times, Sunday Times
Pearl funds are not the only ones to languish. Times, Sunday Times
Using plain white and ivory paper, straws and pipe cleaners, she creates faux gemstones, crystals and pearls.
Would you don the powdered wig, the tweed dress and the pearls? Times, Sunday Times
A woman with a broadtail coat, a heavy lace veil, pearl earrings, and a close black hat entered the restaurant. Main Street
He bows down to other countries, and continually apologizes to other countries for America's "misdeed" such as our response to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
She glides to the podium, perfect in every way, from the toes of her green pearlized kid shoes, to the elegant full length Thai silk ceremonial vest, to the top of her jade tiara. Over herez… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Barbara Cartland used to wear pink silk chiffon and pearl-crusted cardies or so she would have us believe. Archive 2009-06-01
The red cloth was then edged with rows of iridescent mother-of-pearl buttons.
He could see the potential for lobster farming and later in Australia would experiment with the aquaculture of oysters, pearls, and pearl shells.
Alicia returned her attentions to the mirror and slipped her favourite pearl drop earrings into her lobes.
Pearl, her daughters, and two elderly amahs occupied the top floor. PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
Reasons for the past decline include the effects of the pearl button industry of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the cultured pearl industry of the past 50 years.
Jarre stood some distance away from him, staring in awe at the coralite isle floating in the pearl-blue sky. The Hand of Chaos
As the roadies began setting up Pearl Jam's gear, I spent the down time checking out the crowd.
Its flaws are like blemishes on the surface of a pearl: you wish they weren't there so that you could enjoy a perfect treasure.
It was cool without being chill, and took the warmth of one's hand flatteringly soon, as if it liked to do so, yet kept its freshness; it was smooth without being glossy, mat as a pearl, and as delightful to roll in the hand; and of an exquisite, alarming frangibility that gave it, in its small way, that flavour which belongs to pleasures that are dogged by the danger of a violent end. The Judge
It was a thin pearl-colored gown that went down to my ankles and cut off somewhere above my heart.
And when they be nigh him with the cross, then he doth adown his galiot that sits on his head in manner of a chaplet, that is made of gold and precious stones and great pearls, and it is so rich, that men prize it to the value of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
We've so many in the shop we don't want any more; the same applies to cultured pearl WIDOW'S END
Meanwhile, in another small saucepan, combine pearl onions and sugar with water to cover barely.
Layering jewelry can be mystifying, which is why this single piece composed of rhinestones, faux pearls, beads, and chains is so genius. CNN.com
The birds were carolling in full chorus and the eastern sky was mother-of-pearl flushing to pink, like a maiden's cheek in a Disney movie. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
It was a cream-colored lawn with a georgette bodice worked with seed pearls.
Then Danlo touched the tabletop and it vibrated up into a pearl-grey. THE BROKEN GOD
The councilor was a well-preserved man of about fifty, of good height, dressed in a well-made gray traveling suit, with a light gray silk tie adorned with a pin of black pearl. The Malady of the Century
Also occupying the plate were little pearl onions, which were great, though they had a pungent, gamey flavour to them.
Amelican lady you say down-stair, she buy heap pearls, so I bring Missy cumshaw. Peking Dust
After the organization of a new heaven and a new earth it was taught that upon the latter would descend a beautiful city, with pearly gates and golden streets, called the City of God, the Kingdom of God, the Astral Worship
Call it what you will - lily white, creamy white, porcelain or pearl - I am still ghostly pale.
She gingerly pulled the rope of pearls out of the box, staring at them in disbelief, as if she expected them to disappear any moment.
He fondled the impression of her as of silverspun wire, of fine leather, of twisted hair-sennit from the heads of maidens such as the Marquesans make, of carven pearl-shell for the lure of the bonita, and of barbed ivory at the heads of sea-spears such as the Eskimos throw. CHAPTER X
It discovered that the colors of several gem minerals - including pearl, sapphire, quartz, kunzite, and topaz - can be changed by the USPS irradiation method.
`If you don't come across with the pearls, all three of you go into the water hole. THREE IN ONE
From the distracted and despairing man whom love and longing trepan from the lover under passion’s ban the prisoner of transport and distraction from this Kamar al-Zaman son of Shahriman to the peerless one of the fair Houris the pearl-union to the Lady Budur daughter of King Al Ghayur The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
He opened his little sacrament case and took out the big missal which was his own property, bound in costly mother-of-pearl. THE THORN BIRDS
The solicitation of dale is now immunodeficient to a nonindulgence of colorimetrical darjeeling, from overachiever highlighter to pearlescent toot. Rational Review
She wore a pearl necklace to match those on her dress and even her hair, a tower of blonde streaked curls done up in such a fashion that a few loose strands framed her plumpish face perfectly, was adorned with strands of pearls.
Installing new unproven software posed unacceptable risks to Pearl's tight implementation timetable.
Immigration and Naturalization Service. attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Life magazine published an article headlined "How to tell Japs from the Chinese. Chicagotribune.com -
Beautifully arranged strands of semi-precious stones, earrings and pearls beckon them to take a second look.
Then the Caliph and his company drank, whilst the girls went away and there came forth yet other ten, as they were rubies, robed in red brocade inwoven with gold and purfled with pearls and jewels whilst all their heads were bare. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
I ran a kids riding camp this summer and they kids were IN LOVE with pearler beads – who knows why, but they are cheap and one of the parents can iron them while you enjoy a cocktail. They Say It’s Her Birthday | Her Bad Mother
Gold-plated jewellery, silver ornaments, including anklets, earrings, necklaces and bangles studded with Hyderabad pearls were available.
I allude to the phase of the aura which presents the "pearly" appearance of the opalescent body, which we have just noted. The Human Aura Astral Colors and Thought Forms
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. Pearl Bailey
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; he who would search for pearls must dive below.
The combination of glossy production, adequate acting and competent editing was enough to make Pearl Harbor or The Mummy Returns at least tolerable.
The pearly grey colour and rough texture forms an expressive contrast with the smooth white render.
He grew up in profoundly rural America and was graduating from flight school about the time of Pearl Harbor. Matthew Yglesias » Age and the War
In other words, if that bitch Carpenter hadn't hocussed me up the Pearl with her lies, I'd have been safe and away. Flashman And The Dragon
Hong Kong's hinterland around the Pearl River Delta in South China is one of the World's fastest growing manufacturing bases.
Good counsel is a pearl beyond price.
The center jewel was a white pearl, large and round.
We did, and on a day forecast as spoilt by scattered showers and cloud we were rewarded with an absolute pearler.
A variety of color application technologies, such as free-film, color-in-plastic and spray-in-mold methods, are well suited to the application of pearlescent pigments.
As with the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the launching of Sputnik, epochal events can briefly change all the rules of the political game.
Depending on where you lived and worked, this division in chronologic terms occurred in 1939 Europe after the invasion of France or 1941 America after the attack of Pearl Harbor. Visual Futurist – The Genius of Syd Mead
The name perlite (also spelled pearlite) comes from the French word perle which means pearl, in reference to the "pearly" luster of classic perlite. Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth
Pearls are composed partly of the mineral substance calcium carbonate (chemically the same as marble) and partly of a tough, horny substance of organic nature called conchiolin. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
Dondo managed to complete his divestiture of the pearl tiara. THE CURSE OF CHALION
They filled huge haliotis shells with pearls and laid them there beside her, they brought her emeralds which she set to flash among the tresses of her long black hair, they brought her threaded sapphires for her cloak: all this the princes of fable did and the elves and the gnomes of myth. The Book of Wonder
The pearlitic steel with fine interlamellar spacing possesses excellent mechanical properties, such as high strength, good resistance against wear, and high fatigue life, etc.
Even the name is a little chilling, recalling a medieval spearlike weapon as well as a ferocious fish. Try Pike On The Fly
Emerging from the skylight, I turn and walk right into a pearlescent heaven of snowbells (what a thoughtfully beautiful and observant name, like all the old names) and their perfume.
Cosette wore over a petticoat of white taffeta, her robe of Binche guipure, a veil of English point, a necklace of fine pearls, a wreath of orange flowers; all this was white, and, from the midst of that whiteness she beamed forth. Les Miserables
Mantle from an oyster with pink nacre on its inner shell will produce a pink pearl, even if it's put into an oyster with a black shell. PEARL COVE
The economic cooperative system of Pan Pearl River Delta brings more commercial chances and travelers to this area.
When the hominy has had the hulls removed by a machine, it is called pearled hominy. Undefined
Poynton's arrant realism provides echoes of Lucian Freud, Stanley Spencer, Eric Fischl and Philip Pearlstein.
Her voice was the pearliest, most musical, and yet most distant of things. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I
Let's suppose we next get rid of those who were secretly gay, and well, even then you've got around eight people a minute lining up at the Pearly Gates. Clay Farris Naff: How In The World Did Colton Burpo Beat Me To Heaven?
I will be bright, and shine in pearl and gold, To wait upon this new-made empress.
He also essayed the role of "The Creeper" in 2 films, 1944's The Pearl of Death (a Sherlock Holmes entry starring Basil Rathbone), and 1946's House of Horrors (where he was exploited by an evil artist played by Martin Kosleck), but was not involved in 1948's The Creeper. Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: Intriguing Factoids From the Horror/Sci-Fi/Mystery Genre
But behind the pearls and pillbox hats was a different Jackie - cattier, cruder, no less admiring of her husband but much more realistic and blunt about the political world they inhabited. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude! Henry Ward Beecher
I believe the USS RR is part of the 7th Fleet based out of Pearl Harbor. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 6374
The sculptures are made of copper and silver decorated with coral, pearl, crystal and stone and are often set on a heart-shaped base.
Well, on the plus side, it does come with pearlized pins. Regretsy – Be Smine
However, to keep these teeth pearly white, the crocodiles employ the services of spur winged plovers that pick the pieces of meat left between the crocodile's teeth after a large meal.
FLAMMEA) is not nacreous and could not therefore produce a true pearl, but merely g porcellaneous concretion, which, however, might possess a most attractive tint, possibly pale salmon or orange. Tropic Days
As it was my job to lean out and whisper into the sentry's "pearly," I got rather exasperated. Fanny Goes to War
Pearl kneed him hard in the stomach giving herself a chance to get free.
Names that fit us like oversized coats, trimmed in seed pearls, gold braid, and the hides of baby seals.
He who would search for pearls must dive below(or deep).
As Bluto Blutarsky in "Animal House, '' John made cinema history by smashing a guitar, imitating a" zit "in the cafeteria and inspiring his fraternity brothers with the rallying cry:" Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Our Guide to Famous Brothers
Tour of the factory making famous artificial pearls, followed by the tempting shop. Collins Traveller - Mallorca
From your photography, it is clear that your mother-of-pearl earrings correspond to other known examples of Martha Washington's pearl jewelry, some of which is in our collection.
She fingered the single pearl that nestle in the hollow of her throat.
It is important to limit nickel content to the level needed for control of pearlite; excess nickel increases the amount of retained austenite and lowers hardness.
Long-term exposure to chemicals such as hairspray, cosmetics, and perfume may damage these organic Gems, especially pearls. Amazon Online News and Classifieds
Dennison slip on her pearlings to walk before my niece and me, and the three women to walk behind; and bid my niece attend me instantly.” Old Mortality
I tried a few Trapeze, Fair Verona, Pearl Dragon and found them to be dense, medicinal and even muddy – in short, quite unaccessible. Strange Invisible Perfumes
What he might have made of the hiply dressed downtown collection of designers, arty types and DJs washing down their Austrian Mountain Cheese ravioli and arctic char with kohlrabi greens and pearl onions with Dom Perignon Oenotheque 1996 is anyone's guess. Blue Men and Pink Blossoms
With her three pearl white parallel hulls she had a 25-foot beam.
Over silk georgette, cashmere and wool, Napa once again becomes the leading material of the collection embroidered with purling and little glass pearls and studs.
Her hair had been curled into ringlets and piled on top of her head; a scattering of pearls gleaming in amongst the curls like crocus buds emerging from rich, dark soil.
Blood pearled around the shaft of the arrow, bright red, and swelled there like a parasite until it crept down her cheek.
Mountain Climbing and Bicycle - cross Challenging Race at the Pearl River Headwaters, Zhanyi County , Qujing Prefecture.
In the city, 19 waterways currently serve as conduits for domestic waste water, and the quantity of phosphorus in Guangzhou's Pearl River has reached 1.4 times the standard amount.
There is the classic, carefully crafted shtick of the old-fashioned nightclub comedian, routines and rib-ticklers cast and recast into perfectly polished pearls of witticism.
He eventually became editor and author of a gossipy column, "Within the Pearly Gates."
Hong Kong was just across the Pearl estuary, within clear broadcast range.
“At the hospital he kind of ranted and raved,” Mr. Pearl said. Poe��s Mysterious Death: The Plot Thickens!
The light vapour floating around the surface so cooled is condensed upon it, and there accumulates to form the little pearly globe which we call a dew-drop. Fragments of science, V. 1-2
He informed Heemskerk of the arrival in the straits of Malacca of an immense Lisbon carrack, laden with pearls and spices, brocades and precious-stones, on its way to Europe, and suggested an attack. PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
On the week of July 7, 2008, the cartoon Pastis announced that he would be killing off one of Pearls's characters in order to "stay competitive" with other strips.
Baubles can be painted, stencilled, sprayed, wrapped or decorated with fabric, ribbons, glitter, pearls and beads.
Two multi-colored gold and mother-of-pearl rococo nécessaires, each fitted with gold sewing implements in the rim and in a gold-mounted mother-of-pearl tray, the cover of one featuring a courting couple, of the other, a pastoral couple.
The notion of failure ( "the sand in the oyster that isn't a pearl", as he wrote in Anyone Can Whistle) was quickly incorporated as a theme, along with ambivalence, mild irritation, petulance and panic - states and sentiments that traditional musicals shove aside for the bigger, blowsier ones. Culture | guardian.co.uk
Two more seed pearls hung from her ear lobes while a white silk hairband restrained her curly hair.
An overskirt of shimmering gauze bordered at the waist and hem with pearls matched the hems of her long sleeves and modest neckline of her bodice.
The pearl, valued at £75 000, is so big that it has been described as a freak of nature.
Pearl Hand and I shared a small cabin consisting of cane walls daubed with mud to keep the wind out. Fire The Sky
The gem was not a ruby, and it wasn't an emerald either, and it wasn't a diamond or an opal or a pearl, and it wasn't jade or tourmaline or jasper.
The brush-on pearlised colors in four shades are best applied on long hair when strands are held together and color stroked on from the root to the tip.
Pearl encrusted gold and enamel pocketwatch with automata Of Clockwork Trains and Faberge Eggs
With the first major implementation target met, Pearl is turning its attentions to further developments.
It will pull down your lower lip and raise the upper one to display your 100,000 pearly whites. Times, Sunday Times
A sharpening nip to the wind made me look south, where a familiar pearling of the sky and darkening of sea showed that the ferryman's prophecy was set to come true.
Now there are suggestions that the Pearl River Delta is on the cusp of another transformation.
It was the man who engaged the attention of Blind Hugh, one of the beggars on early duty at Pearl Dock.
You should have instead cited the "decommit" examples of DT's Pearlie Graves and Daquinta Jones, though they too would not have proved your desired point any more effectively. Maize n Brew
There were freshwater pearl drop earrings and a matching five stringed pearl choker, framed in delicate rose gold.
They remove plaque and stains and will return teeth to their original pearly whiteness. The Natural Beauty Book - cruelty-free cosmetics to make at home
In the latest bit of right-wing lunacy on health care reform, RedState. com writer "hogan" brazenly compares health care reform bills to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 -- inanely adding that if health care reform passes, you can "say goodbye to freedom. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
I can expect to get about 20 or more pearls in each shell. Times, Sunday Times
Ditch the summer's clunky ethnic beads for lady-like pearls, vintage jewellery, an old-fashioned handbag, leather gloves and a flash of stocking.
In the same ratio, the camels which composed their train were fifty, sixty, seventy, and eighty; the size of their oriental pearls was distended till they almost got to the egg of the ostrich: but as a bulse of diamonds sounded well for a Nabobess, the exact quantity contained in a bulse was increased only in the same proportion with the rest of the eastern importation. Substance and Shadow; or, the Fisherman's Daughter of Brighton
A smudge of pearly glitter was left on each cheek.
As the only one of the white lady volunteers who spoke the language of the Chinese inmates, Pearl heard atrocious accounts of physical and mental abuse, violence, torture, starvation, and rape inflicted on girls thrown out or sold by their families into forced labor, working in brothels or as domestic slaves terrorized by the mistress of the household and passed from hand to hand by the master, his sons, and his menservants. PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
Tree rings from 678 Great Basin bristlecone pines taken from the White Mountains, and Mount Washington and Pearl Peak, NV have shown scientists that rising temperatures are having a profound impact on the slowest growing, ancient pines on the planet. Dr. Reese Halter: Saving the Ancient Pines by Reducing our Global Footprints
Once risen, brush with the eggwash and sprinkle over with pearl sugar. Apricot Brioche Breakfast Plait
The recent sessions with the "elixir" -a mixture of blood, ground pearl, mercury, sulfur, and several herbs Alinor couldn't identify-had generated vast amounts of psychic energy, powers which Al-Hazim could not see, and which Alinor had thought at first that he was probably not aware of. Omnibus
In the international pearl market, the demand is for large-sized coloured pearls of black, silvery green and green to deep purple hues.
In triumph, he picks people up, hugs them, shouts with glee; in defeat, his face carries a frightening scowl and the pearly teeth disappear from view.
E'en sae, Milnwood," replied Cuddie; "for the puir quean gat leave to come near me wi 'speaking the loun fair, (d-- n him, that I suld say sae!) and sae she bade me God speed, and she wanted to stap siller into my hand; -- I'se warrant it was the tae half o' her fee and bountith, for she wared the ither half on pinners and pearlings to gang to see us shoot yon day at the popinjay. Old Mortality, Complete
Her skin was as white as pearl and very soft. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
It has a tailored collar with top button loop, hemmed sleeves, matte pearl buttons, a double-layer back yoke with pleats, left chest pocket and a clean-finish hem with side vents.
In her widening influence, growing liberty, and freedom, I see impearled a prophecy of an altruistic era -- a civilization triumphant -- rising against to-morrow's purpling dawn. The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891
We travelled one hour up the Pearl River by high-speed jet boats to the port of Zhongshan.
He had shot big game in Siam, pearled in the Paumotus, visited Tolstoy, seen the Passion Play, and crossed the Andes on mule-back; while he was a living directory of the fever holes of West Africa. Chapter 14
They remove plaque and stains and will return teeth to their original pearly whiteness. The Natural Beauty Book - cruelty-free cosmetics to make at home
She is a pearl among women.
As we entered, I could not help being impressed by the wealth of articles in beautiful cloisonne enamel, in mother-of-pearl, lacquer, and champleve. The War Terror
By 1,000 BC the first permanent settlements were established, strung along the shore like a long string of muddy pearls that were placed at a days rowing distance apart.
The reporter gushed that ‘her excellency wore white satin plain skirt, bodice trimmed with white mousseline de soie heavily embroidered in silver, a magnificent tiara and riviere, and necklet of diamonds and pearls.’
nacreous (or pearlescent) clouds looking like mother-of-pearl
she turned to the mirror and picked up her three strand necklace of pearls.
Main ingredients: senior pearl powder, vitamins, seaweed, moistening factor and moisture - restore factor.
The name perlite (also spelled pearlite) comes from the French word perle which means pearl, in reference to the “pearly” luster of classic perlite. Perlite
She was another Catholic gentlewoman of the 17th century, who spent her entire fortune making vestments of silk, gold and pearls, to the rage and despair of her relatives.
Does anyone want to battle / trade pokemon pearl and diamond. i have rare and shinnies. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
Ms. Pearl Buck and her husband often out of the compound.
Personally, I prefer it even to a Tashkent melon - and you know the proverb runs that the Caliph of the Faithful would give ten pearl-breasted beauties from his hareem for a single melon of Tashkent. The Sky Writer
‘'Tis I who have the map to the pearl-treasures of these isles, and not thee, Northerner, ‘he called, taunting Viro.
What philosophical pearl did he leave for history?
Nor is it just things that are white: pearls are wintry. Times, Sunday Times
Pearl Jam had lost their edge, lost their aggression, the lack of solos and "poppier" sound was nothing like what I expected. All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
It's made from soft cotton and features Western style pockets, pearl snap details, and Lurex stitching for a cool vintage look.
She wore a white linen chambray shirt that buttoned in the front with pearl buttons.
when Bulukiya landed and walked about the island he found therein many marvels, especially a bird whose body was of pearls and leek green emeralds and its plumery of precious metals; and it was engaged in singing the praises of Allah the Most High and blessing Mohammed (upon whom be benediction and peace!). The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
With its ebullience of baroque form and boldly patterned marquetry made of exotic woods, mother-of-pearl and ivory, the stand includes the delightful illusion that an embroidered cloth has been flung across the top.
One day they had Pekin Duck Wild Rice Soup, an unspeakably rich, velvety concoction of little pearls of curled wild rice swimming through nut-brown luxury.
Yet another technique of which he had not located a description in published sources was inlay of silver, gold, or mother-of-pearl inset into lacquer.
I notice how nicely her nails are rounded and polished with pearl white, and how kempt she is.
Her nail varnish was pearly pink.
Henry VIII was fond of wearing a velvet, gold-embroidered purple doublet encrusted with diamonds, rubies and pearls.
Then she was sure of her, and tasted hours of quiet, sad, delicious happiness; untilperhaps with that perverse expression glimmering from beneath her opening lidslittle Pearl awoke! VI. Pearl
The small and delicate pearl eye square in front of the hotel and the wing under glass globe make the lobby and the wing active.
The entire gown was scattered with pearls and sequins.
Of the pearliest flow, from those pastoral hills. [ The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes
The name perlite (also spelled pearlite) comes from the French word perle which means pearl, in reference to the "pearly" luster of classic perlite. Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth
When she was out of her heavy dress, Ingrid began pinning the materials to the slip that Pearl wore, slowly forming the beginnings of a dress.
Athletic, a medalled surfer, Navy nurse at Pearl Harbor and off Iwo Jima. "My hollow shell gives you the finger."
March 28, 2007 at 11:06 PM bravo to chris coyne, given Pearls remarks about gmu & europe my guess is that pearl is a europe based austrian. 10 Austrian Vices and How to Avoid Them - The Austrian Economists
And he is not likely to be reassured by the rhapsody in which George identifies the blessings of a triumphant single tax with ‘the city of God on earth, with its walls of jasper and its gates of pearl!’
O that he had but the wealth and treasure of both the Indies to endow her with, a carrack of diamonds, a chain of pearl, a cascanet of jewels, (a pair of calfskin gloves of four-pence a pair were fitter), or some such toy, to send her for a token, she should have it with all his heart; he would spend myriads of crowns for her sake. Anatomy of Melancholy
Her unruly teeth have been tamed into a neat, pearly, Californian smile, the parakeet spiked hair is now a glossy black mane.
She wore a single strand of pearls around her neck.
For smarter looks, little blouses, pleated skirts and twinsets are given a flapper flavour with cloches hats, pearls and dainty shoes.
Had she but read Euphues, and forgotten that accursed mill and shieling-hill, it is my thought that her converse would be broidered with as many and as choice pearls of compliment, as that of the most rhetorical lady in the court of Feliciana. The Monastery
The device isn't a government-approved medical aid, a circumstance Pearl deems lamentable.
She then called for her maid to do her hair, which ended up in elaborate curls, twisted and pinned around a pearl and sapphire tiara.
The quantity of mother-of-pearl-shell, _communibus annis_, sold there is two thousand piculs, at six dollars a picul. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
Silvery fish with scales like pearls and translucent blue fins like moonlight swam through the clear, cold water, hiding underneath duckweed and water-flowers floating above the pond's surface.
Becky, slim and small, with her hair peaked up to a topknot, Becky in pale blue, Becky as fair as her string of imitation pearls, Becky in the golden haze of the softly illumined room, Becky, Becky Bannister -- the name chimed in his ears. The Trumpeter Swan
Four recipes, two for cookies and two for gingerbread, call for the use of “pearlash,” a refined version of potash, which was made by soaking the ash produced when plant materials are burned, draining off the liquid, and drying it down to concentrate the substances dissolved in it. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
It is the world's third-largest well formed pearl. Times, Sunday Times

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