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Sentence Examples She stepped closer to the bed where the open suitcase lay, picking up a pearl necklace. Also occupying the plate were little pearl onions, which were great, though they had a pungent, gamey flavour to them. It adorns tacky gold cigarette lighters and sets of imitation pearl earrings found in inflight duty free catalogues. It's made from soft cotton and features Western style pockets, pearl snap details, and Lurex stitching for a cool vintage look. 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. An elongated cultured pearl was pressed into the clay and secured with a small rope of copper clay. One unique tel sequence was found in sorghum, hairy crabgrass, barley, rye, and pearl millet, as was found in rice. Now, 10 years later, the trees are growing strong, welcome news to the pearl crescent butterfly. Her grey hair fell in a combed central parting to her earlobes, from which pearl ear rings hung. The huge, perfectly spherical structure sat like a giant black pearl in the middle of the city. It is also easier to manage damage by grain-feeding birds on semidwarf cultivars of sorghum and pearl millet. Add guinea hen jus, olives, artichokes, fennel and pearl onions and caramelize. Maize and pearl millet are compared, of which the latter is more drought tolerant. There were freshwater pearl drop earrings and a matching five stringed pearl choker, framed in delicate rose gold. Most of then had a pearl shell inlaid, and the gold leaf in combination with marble looked just magnificent. She wore a crisp business suit, which was shown off by a pearl necklace and matching earrings. He could see the potential for lobster farming and later in Australia would experiment with the aquaculture of oysters, pearls, and pearl shells. Kino is a young pearl diver who feels his obligation to his family very strongly. One such edict imposed the death penalty on anyone forcing a free Indian to become a pearl diver. He experimented with the artificial culture of pearls, by inserting grit to act as a nucleus around which the new pearl would form. Show More Sentences In the international pearl market, the demand is for large sized coloured pearls of black, silvery green and green to deep purple hues. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the potatoes, pearl onions, carrots, morels, and baby leeks to a bowl and set aside, keeping warm. Served in a piping hot tureen, the tender venison meat was soaking in a sauce that tasted of pearl onions and wine. His light grey coat, sharply belted to accentuate his bulkiness above and below, is matched by his pearl tie-stud. Simmer the pearl barley in a litre of water for about 45 minutes, or until tender. Before the second son had time to replace the pearl, the king discovered it missing. She wore a white linen chambray shirt that buttoned in the front with pearl buttons. By the main course we are struggling, but I am determined to conquer my grilled loin of lamb with pearl barley and mushroom risotto. He smiled a dark smile showing a mouth full of pearl white teeth with a set of elongated eye teeth and canines and held out his hand. She was in a well-tailored dove-gray wool suit, collarless and double-breasted, with a knee-length skirt, dark-gray heels and pearl earrings. It reminded me of a story I heard about someone in a supermarket who asked an assistant where she could find pearl barley. There were freshwater pearl drop earrings and a matching five-stringed pearl choker, framed in delicate rose gold. Other houses' bathrooms are characterised by bright cobalt blues or pearl whites. When the world is your oyster, you surely have a better chance of finding a pearl. Twisting lace vines snaked up the middle on both sides of the pearl buttons. He calls Francie his Prima Donna and gets ready in his white dickey and pearl studs for work. Press the nail heads, pearl studs and other embellishments of your choice into the uncured Gold and Copper clays surrounding the image transfers. Fashion critics adore her dresses in hand-dyed shades of pearl, frost, teal, grey and chocolate, worn over silk slip dresses. The pearl strands that are stringed by American diamonds were yet another collection that seemed popular with visitors. Handle materials can range from handpicked AAA-grade Mother of pearl or the aforementioned meticulously crafted granulated sterling silver. Show More Sentences The dress had a pair of arm-length gloves, a pearl necklace and earrings, and a pair of glass high-heel dress shoes. Unconsciously, her hands worked to take off her small pearl earrings as she entered her room and closed the door behind her. A simple rhinestone or pearl necklace and earring set will enhance the look of your maids. She had changed from her khaki uniform to a more casual blue slacks, white pullover sweater and blue shoes, pearl earrings and a pearl necklace. She wore a matching pearl necklace and had a dark complexion with bright brown eyes. In fact, the only piece of jewelry that she wore was a pearl necklace, matching pearl earrings, and a gold wedding ring encasing a ruby. The way it would warm cold and clammy skin, or make a pearl of sweat roll down my face. Variations of green, pale and gentle, or a shimmer of apricot or pearl can perfectly set a great reading mood for pages with heavy content. Even if they do, it's your Libran duty to transmute this irritating grit into your own precious pearl of personal wisdom. As Fr Brian says every child is a precious pearl and deserves to be treated as such. Its highly polished surfaces were a pearl white marble with veins of soft grey. The room was painted pearl white which happened to match the polished marble floor. Earrings made of black metal with American diamonds embedded, chains made of gunmetal, coral and jade and pearl bangles add to the gaiety. Picking up her brothers sword she examined it, the hilt was molded from solid gold, with white opal and mother of pearl inlay. For starters I was rather adventurous and went for the fillet of ostrich which came with a parsnip and garlic mash with pearl barley topping. Vertical polythene soil barriers have been similarly used for pearl millet and groundnut intercrops. The sculptures are made of copper and silver decorated with coral, pearl, crystal and stone and are often set on a heart-shaped base. From the air the tiny islets of Funafuti atoll appear as a broken pearl necklace scattered on the blue throat of the tropical sea. The body-jewelry equivalent of plain diamond or pearl stud earrings is probably the captive-bead ring, or perhaps the curved barbell. He made himself level the remaining gun at the words, changed his grip on the pearl handle. Show More Sentences Ladies and gentlemen, now welcome the loveliest pearl in our ocean, Yvonne. But in 1962, diving fishermen motivated by a pearl jewellery boom started the production of cultured Poe Rava pearls. Native mussel shells are used in the cultured pearl and jewelry industries. Alicia returned her attentions to the mirror and slipped her favourite pearl drop earrings into her lobes. She hung long, pearl earrings in her ears, and fastened a pearl bracelet around her wrist. With no real capital to speak of, the bookshop launched itself as a publisher primarily with the financial backing of a local pearl merchant. In the center, there are either jade, pearl or onyx pieces depending on the value. These women wear haute couture clothes of silk and ermine set off with expensive pearl jewelry. The sky faded from the dark bluish purple of twilight, to the bright white color of a pearl before her eyes. When we shucked fresh oysters off the rocks and dreamt of finding a black pearl that would make us be rich forever. The bride wore an ivory off-the-shoulder gown with embroidery and pearl detail on the back, a full-length train and a shoulder-length veil. To continue our example with cream woodwork, the foyer and halls might be painted a pearl gray, light tan, soft gold, or deeper cream. In addition, various combinations of pearl necklaces come in and out of fashion with regularity. In the international pearl market, the demand is for large-sized coloured pearls of black, silvery green and green to deep purple hues. Some are large, but many are little more than a boat, a few lines of oysters, a scuba tank, a shed, and a determined pearl farmer and his family. We share pink delicious gum in our garden by puffs of pearl white baneberries near the gleaming stream. The bride wore a white beaded bodice with a net skirt and train, and a shoulder-length veil held by a pearl and rhinestone tiara. I notice how nicely her nails are rounded and polished with pearl white, and how kempt she is. Eliza said that she had just gone to the movies, but she was wearing a very expensive tailored suit in pearl gray, with not a hair out of place. The only species present in Clyde Creek were blacknose shiner, Iowa darter, central mudminnow, and pearl dace. Show More Sentences A female butterfly lays an egg that looks like a miniature pearl, or a squashed golf ball, or a whiskey barrel. Please be sure the Liang family is compensated for those lovely chairs and that wonderful lacquer and pearl chest. The biologist referred Ip to a research institution in Hainan, where he learned about pearl farming. I also use precious materials, like pearl, and other things, like polished shells and seeds. It seems to have been one variety of white onion which, in late Latin, bore the name unio, meaning a single white pearl. She looked in the mirror and changed her contacts from pearl gray to sapphire blue. Other styles to look out for are cowhide, ethnic, pearl embroidery and mother of pearl effect. The beads are then lustred all over with mother of pearl giving them a beautiful sheen like oil on water. The souvenir shops, with their olive wood crucifixes and mother of pearl nativity tableaux, are shuttered. It had huge puffy sleeves with three button cuffs with ruffles and pearl buttons down the back, Cindy had to button me into it. It has a three-button placket, pearl like buttons, full cut with extended tail and side vents. Meanwhile, the city has become a gleaming, shining pretty pearl in a box of pleasures and delights. She's a young woman and I didn't want to get her something that would age her, so I went with the single pearl. Above the rusticated north arches is another grotesque mask, carrying a pearl swag, also done in shells with a background of pebbles. The sun shines in the sky, which is bright blue with a few pearl white clouds hovering above. Cool was the bop in your step, the pearl in your cap, the cigarette dangling from your lip. The alter was made of pearl white marble and the crosses and decor made out of gold and silver, gemmed with precious and semi-precious stones. A white pearl necklace hung about her neck while pearl earrings dangled from her ear lobes. The artist quickly blamed event organizers, and he even criticized the band pearl Jam for making him late. With more the 300 days of sunshine Rhodes is the pearl of the Aegean. Show More Sentences I ended up wearing a blue satin dress and pearl drop earrings. The miniature portrait, either worn as part of a parure, hung from a ribbon, or mounted on a pearl bracelet, was a commonplace of mid-eighteenth-century female portraiture. It's a pair of pearl and diamond earrings and an 18 carat gold bangle. She wore a pearl charm bracelet on her wrist and bounded down the stairs. Rubies were found in Burma and Ceylon, topaz, beryl, garnet, amethyst and pearl in Ceylon and Southern India, and spinels and deep blue sapphires in Afghanistan and Kashmir. Pearls and pearl products will be on display at the exposition, which will be open to public though it specifically targets pearl dealers and jewellery houses. Glabrous mutant varieties have been identified in many cereal crop species, including rice, wheat, barley, oats, pearl millet, sugarcane, and sorghum. Dawson brought from his jacket pocket the ring that Edric had spent months saving for, white gold with a pearl in the center that would match her wedding dress splendidly. It would be a simple question of taking juvenile pearl oysters from deep water to pools closer to shore, where they would be easier to pick up when mature. Any such attempt will have implications to the tune of thousands of dollars considering the evolving trends in the global cultured pearl industry. 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. The serene Andaman and Nicobar islands may soon become a much sought after destination by not just tourists looking for cool and unsullied locales but also pearl aficionados. It's bilious red plume was shot through with small dashes of black, and a tiny white bead formed a snowy tear or decorative pearl at the corner of it's left eye. To serve, spoon some pearl onions and Brussels sprouts leaves in the center of a plate, set two pieces of yellowtail on top, and sprinkle with fleur de sel. Around her neck was a pearl necklace sparkling under the bright light. However, my recent trip to the aquarium left me stranded in the gift store with a complimentary cultured pearl in my hand and a bad taste in my mouth. Grey pearl cuff links peeped out from beneath his jacket sleeves. Mary Dakas became Australia's only Greek female pearl lugger operator. With her three pearl white parallel hulls she had a 25-foot beam. The story about a roadtrip to Lyon to rescue an abandoned car is a particular pearl. Show More Sentences Mr. Soni created a range of white clothing and cushions with embroidery using safety pins, melted pearl beads, and fabric strips. Features include a nubby texture in the fabric and black pearl buttons. The drive home reveals a slate sky, clouds that appear white against the sky's caliginosity and a saucer sized full moon cloaked in silver and pearl. Looking around me, I realised that the last time I'd shared a room with so many thick spectacles, pearl necklaces and blue rinses was at my grandmother's funeral. Every morning he donned white satin gloves with pearl buttons at the wrists, and by noon they were spotted with dirt and Macassar oil and crushed lice. The whole was embroidered with hundreds of pearls laced with two agates, twelve chrysolites, twelve garnets, a gold-mounted sapphire and a large pendant pearl. Ruby, sapphire, emerald, opal, coral, and pearl are found in abundance. 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 actor looked handsome in a pearl white suit with a baby pink shirt. She wears an ostentatious diamond ring and a pearl the size of a marble. In the succeeding 400 years, there have been attempts to resuscitate the Venezuelan pearl industry, but most such endeavors have proved unsuccessful. She fingered the single pearl that nestle in the hollow of her throat. Like all the little monarchies scattered along the coast of the Gulf, Kuwait used to be a sleepy little backwater, getting by on pearl fishing and trade. At Suzhou City in the Jiangsu province, he visited a fresh water pearl farm and factor and said he was impressed with the techniques used by the Chinese farmers. She had on a pearl necklace and clam-shaped mother-of-pearl earrings. I spoke to Daisy today as I could not find the pearl barley. In this fishy world, the pearl diver emerges as a strange kind of hero. Once the supply of pearls available through trade was exhausted, the Spanish began organizing pearl-harvesting ventures involving the use of slaves as pearl divers. The chapter on pearl millet provides a useful introduction to this crop. Considerable efforts have been made to introduce the trait into crops such as maize and pearl millet by traditional breeding involving interspecific hybridization. Show More Sentences Though pearl millet, a grain crop native to western Africa, is grown in the United States for forage, there is no established grain market for it. Included are pen shells, pearl oysters and a young Tridacna. The nacre, or mother of pearl, is the innermost layer, which is composed of thin, alternating, laminae of calcium carbonate and an organic material. Back down they go for several more years, during which time the oyster instinctively surrounds the injected foreign body with nacre, so building up a beautiful pearl. So I began to wrack my brain to come up at least once a day with a pearl of wit or wisdom. Fourteen incy-wincy pearl buttons that needed to be pushed through a presumably corresponding number of loops. By him. Similarly, a long-term field experiment on conservation tillage in a pearl millet wheat system was selected for taking undisturbed cores. The colour-rich, soft, creaseproof formula grips to matte, pearl or shimmer shadows, giving them a whole new dimension. The sorghum culture showed the highest DM yield at 90 days, both in the monoculture crop and intercropping with midget-guandu and pearl millet. Solutions for eradicating and combating Striga are greatly needed, particularly for pearl millet. Aristoc's Flower Net tights continue this with their delicate cut-out patterning on light opaque in pearl grey. Next she dabbed on a bright, almost turquoise, blue to my outer lids followed by pale pearl grey to my inner lids. For the evening, they recommend a light silky complexion, graphic eyes enhanced by pearl grey mascara and femme fatale lips in purple. Instaset Dyes are available in 14 colors as well as a pearl base to add pearlescence to designs. Centre for Culture and Research in Muharraq, depicting tales from the life of a pearl diver through melodies, songs and ballads. The belt to which the pearl diver attached the 'life-line' enabled the hunter to ascend quickly in case of an emergency. But there are threats out there too like a monstrous sea snake who is out to get the adventurous pearl. Grey 'pays' are a traditional Bonfire Night treat, served with diced bacon and pearl barley. Splasher the dolphin and Neptina the mermaid, who had a magic pearl, lent a hand from time to time. In a dry pan, on a medium heat, lightly toast the pearl barley for 3-5 mins. Show More Sentences A true organic jasmine pearl tea will have a mild smell, not a perfumy blast of jasmine. It is a real show-stopper with gleaming ivory paintwork, Wenge-coloured wood and mother of pearl interior touches plus sumptuous Cuoio leather. Consider the pearl torsade mixed with colorful gemstones a summertime staple. While both contain soluble fiber that helps keep blood cholesterol levels healthy, pearl barley has a little more. The ladies of the township were preparing an intercultural event in a hall and the mud outside was threatening to ruin the pearl grey carpet. Outline or pick up detail on the imagewith matching or contrasting colors of pearl cotton, using a basic chain stitch. And jewellery merges old and new with sterling silver necklaces, featuring mother of pearl, crystal marcasite and cubic zircona. The new pieces feature blue topaz, smoky quartz or blue pearl as a statement ring, earrings, charm or pendant. Potential of commercial development of mabe pearl farming in Va'vau Islands, Kingdom of Tonga. Phytoplankton is also used to feed many varieties of aquacultured molluscs, including pearl oysters and giant clams. The Japanese invention of cultured pearls also contributed to the collapse of Kuwait's pearl industry. The pearl industry is so important in some areas, significant sums of money are spent on monitoring the health of farmed molluscs. In 1521, a Portuguese force led by commander Antonio Correia invaded Bahrain to take control of the wealth created by its pearl industry. It has been famed since antiquity for its pearl fisheries, which were considered the best in the world into the 19th century. Since 1997, the island has been the site of a substantial pearl farming operation owned by the Australian company Atlas Pacific. Potassium carbonate is the primary component of potash and the more refined pearl ash or salts of tartar. Historically, pearl ash was created by baking potash in a kiln to remove impurities. The first patent issued by the US Patent Office was awarded to Samuel Hopkins in 1790 for an improved method of making potash and pearl ash. In late 18th century North America, before the development of baking powder, pearl ash was used as a leavening agent in quick breads. Kuwait's pearl industry also collapsed as a result of the worldwide economic depression. Show More Sentences Conditions in pearl oyster hatcheries are optimized for growth and survival of spat. The new collection is a mixture of blackened silver, raw crystals, labradorite, black spinel, pearl chalcedony and pyrite. After the introduction of the Japanese cultured pearl onto the world market in the 1920s and 1930s, Qatar's pearling industry crashed. Report prepared by local governors of Ottoman Empire in 1892 states that total income from pearl hunting in 1892 is 2,450,000 kran. Her veil was a pearl Juliet cap with European lace worn by her great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother. Before the discovery of oil, the economy of the Qatari region focused on fishing and pearl hunting. Changes in shell dimensions of pearl oysters Pinctada mazatlanica and Pteria sterna, during growth as criteria for Mabe pearl implants. In the morning Mr. Logan wore a doeskin box coat with pearl buttons nearly as large as alarm clocks in two rows on it. Changes in shell dimensions of pearl oysters, Pinctada mazatlanica and Pteria sterna, during growth as criteria for Mabe pearl implants. The main course of ox cheek, pearl barley and onion was again full of flavour but not over-powering. Turns out Stevie already ate the black pearl for dinner with a fried doorhandle, but never mind. Known as ghais in Arabic, these men used to dive without any breathing equipment to collect pearl oysters from the seabed. The Arabian Gulf is host to a variety of marine organisms and is the natural habitat of coral reefs and pearl oysters. From the 783 pearl oysters that underwent surgreffe operations, 380 cultured pearls were harvested among the 10 families. Some kinds of pearl oysters are harvested for the pearl produced within the mantle. In nature, pearl oysters produce pearls by covering a minute invasive object with nacre. Over the years, the irritating object is covered with enough layers of nacre to become a pearl. Pearl farmers can culture a pearl by placing a nucleus, usually a piece of polished mussel shell, inside the oyster. The popular Cruiser speaker is available to everyone in carbonado black or pearl white with rose gold accents. As it turns out, pearl oyster mushrooms are not the neatly chopped white mushrooms you find at the supermarket. Show More Sentences For example, the pronunciation of pearl in some variants of Scottish English can sound like the entirely unrelated word petal to an American ear. A triumphant chariot made of carnation velvet, enriched with purl and pearl. Here, from the fading canvas, smiled Lady Elizabeth Devereux, in her gauze hood, pearl stomacher, and pink slashed sleeves. However, situation of coarse cereals and pearl millet cannot improve now, Rathore said. We believe there is plenty of no-name pearl jewelry out there of unknown quality. Africa has its own species of rice, as well as finger millet, folio, pearl millet, sorghum, teff, guinea millet, and several dozen wild cereals whose grains are eaten. Currently, mabe pearl production techniques are mature and applied commercially on a large scale in China, including the Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hainan provinces. Saltwater pearls were the more highly prized but harvesting them was a difficult and dangerous process involving diving for pearl oysters, mainly in the Indian Ocean. In the 8th century, it started benefiting from its commercially strategic position in the Persian Gulf and went on to become a centre of pearl trading. She wore a necklace featuring a pearl tiepin that had belonged to her late grandfather and carried a bouquet of white hydrangeas, roses, and Phalaenopsis orchids. All these office looks can be easily transformed with a quick change to pearl or rhinestone jewelry, strappy shoes in peau de soie and a small evening bag to match. At the same time, the pearl diving industry developed at a rapid pace. His grey waistcoat sported pearl buttons, and he wore a stock which set off to admiration a lean and aquiline face which was almost as grey as the rest of him. Expanding upon Masato Pearls' extensive line of solely pearl jewelry, the Anteros Collection features precious gems such as diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds, and pearls. Dates and fish fed pearl divers during their arduous work at sea gathering the harvest that fuelled the region's economy before the discovery of oil. At its height, Kuwait's pearl industry had led the world's luxury market, regularly sending out between 750 and 800 ships to meet the European elite's desire for pearls. Choices will include devilled crab, venison burger, deconstructed fish pie, pearl barley with butternut squash risotto and deconstructed white chocolate and raspberry trifle. According to historian Pliny the Elder, Cleopatra owned two of the largest pearl earrings in history, each of which was said to be worth 30 million sestertii. She wore her great-grandmother's pearl and diamond lavalier. While all oysters may produce a dingy pearl, the pearl oyster that is famous for making the round gemstones isn't, biologically speaking, an oyster. Show More Sentences Feast on delicious local produce in the sea zoo's fully licensed bistro, fish for your own pearl oyster, or stock up on presents and souvenirs in the gift shop. The DB9 has an Ashen Blonde exterior, while the interior features pearl leather, a Piano Ice Mocha facia and a blanket stitch passing through the centre. Both cultured pearls and natural pearls can be extracted from pearl oysters, though other molluscs, such as the freshwater mussels, also yield pearls of commercial value. This traditional casserole contains filling pearl barley, too. In three to seven years, the oyster can produce a perfect pearl. Or the pearl decoration may have lost its transparent overpainting. Target species are the black-lipped oyster and winged pearl oyster. Feast on delicious local produce in the zoo's fully licensed bistro, fish for your own pearl oyster, or stock up on presents and souvenirs in the superb gift shop. However, a proposal to establish a pearl farm on uninhabited Suwarrow atoll was rejected in 2001 over fears that the atoll's large seabird colonies would be disturbed. It describes the elephant and hippopotamus in detail, as well as the value and origin of the pearl and the invention of fish farming and oyster farming. Among the restaurants sample menu is pearl oyster and sea scallop sashimi, fennel milk, summer squash, smoked eel tapioca, egg white pearl flower, and wasabi. The four-tiered wedding cake, adorned with a pearl and crystal initial created by Les Shurden, was presented in the sunroom of the home beneath columns of asparagus ferns. This opulent mirror is richly ornamented with crisply carved foliage, flowers and scrolls, and delicate lacquerwork with mother of pearl inlays and cabochons of faux lapis. As I write this today,I am looking over the rolling hills of the Tay Valley, shrouded in pearl grey clouds, small snow patches scar the hillsides. Basra is in a fertile agricultural region, with major products including rice, maize corn, barley, pearl millet, wheat and dates as well as livestock. Fundamental to the project are actions that will restore river habitat to benefit freshwater pearl mussels and salmonids on which the pearl mussel lifecycle depends. She wore a necklace featuring a pearl tiepin, which had belonged to her late grandfather, and a pearl brooch on her sash that belonged to her grandmother. Crops domesticated in the Sahel region include sorghum and pearl millet. Jewelry by Gail reinterprets the pearl necklace by fusing natural golden, grey, and white South Sea pearls with a Mexican fire opal and sapphire, set in 18k yellow gold. Before the development of petroleum, the island was largely devoted to pearl fisheries and, as late as the 19th century, was considered to be the finest in the world. Show More Sentences It is a mid-season, white pearl, six-rowed spring barley with smooth awns, short rachilla hairs and more lateral vein barbs than Morex. A related symbol is the flaming pearl, which may be seen on such roofs between two dragons, as well as on the hairpin of a Celestial Master. For a long time, he had been imprisoned in a tower, not of pearl, but of ivory. They exchange for knives, glasses, and such toys, great abundance of gold and pearl. The chambers of the East are opened in every land, and the sun comes forth to sow the earth with orient pearl. The more traditional exports of the city included dates, mother of pearl, and fish. Molluscs have, for centuries, also been the source of important luxury goods, notably pearls, mother of pearl, Tyrian purple dye, and sea silk. As we passed through the quadrangle the church was glowing more brightly than a pearl, like a lily in strong sunlight, in spite of all the scaffolding and hugger-mugger. The two, ferrite and cementite, precipitate simultaneously producing a layered structure called pearlite, named for its resemblance to mother of pearl. Examples from Classical Literature Once upon a time there was a seed pearl that dropped from the robe of a green fairy. Her lip curled, baring teeth of the purest pearl, and a sneer quivered on the highbred nostrils. The first seven oysters I examined, contained nothing but seed pearl, and not many of these. In addition to these, I got in all, one hundred and eighty-seven of the size of peas, besides a large handful of the seed pearl. She may turn out to be a pearl of a wife, this young lady whom you are requested to enchase in gold. The value of the pearl is based on the brilliancy of the nacre, the size, and the form. You are to wear your pearl grey, with any amount of honiton lace jabbed into it. Fifteen minutes in Brazil, and then three or four in pearl ash gives full red purples deepening to maroon. Resting on its satin bed gleamed a string of graduated pearls from which hung a pearl pendant in the form of a bowknot. In a few minutes I had seventy-three just such pearls, besides a quantity of seed pearl. The great pearl and shell of the awabi were placed in the temple, and the body was reverently buried. The bdellium mentioned in Gen. ii, 12, was apparently a precious stone, perhaps a pearl. He compares it to little things, to a tiny seed, to a handful of leaven, to a pearl. This cabinet is called the Tribuna and in it is a pearl as big as an hazelnut. Most distinctly of all I see his breastpin, with a large bluish-white pearl in it. But if life is a soap-bubble, and not a pearl, shall a woman sell all that she has and buy it? For soaking, use one and a half cups of water for each cup of flake tapioca, and one pint of water for a cup of pearl tapioca. Boil two quarts of consomm, then add slowly one-half pound of pearl tapioca, and cook slowly until soft. It is really good, and I am putting in lots of pearl barley and rice and potatoes. Soak one tablespoonful of pearl tapioca until soft in enough water to cover it. Show More Sentences Fine Scotch barley is to be preferred to the pearl barley if it can be obtained. By that time, of course, I knew for certain that it was the Borgia pearl that we were after. It was white and bulgy and gleaming and full up of pearl buttons and everything. She had a row of seed pearl like her sister, and one rose of faintest pink nestled in her virgin bosom. The centre of the collar is further ornamented with the shells of the pearl oyster. A woman with a broadtail coat, a heavy lace veil, pearl earrings, and a close black hat entered the restaurant. Soak the pearl tapioca in the cold water for ten minutes in the upper part of the double boiler. These necessaries are confined at the knee by a transverse row of pearl buttons crossing the genu patella. Six good, tart cooking apples, three-quarters of a cup of pearl tapioca, sugar to taste and one quart of water. It might be a lace handkerchief, a pink Paumotan pearl, or a comb of hawksbill turtle. Also soak over night a tablespoonful of pearl tapioca in sufficient water to cover. By increasing the proportion of pearl ash the red may be made still paler, in which case make the alum water stronger. The flake tapioca requires longer soaking and cooking than the pearl tapioca. Out of the pearl seemed to issue a spell that stole upon her spirits gently as an atomy settles through the still air. He can afford not to be fathomed for every little pearl that lies at the bottom of his ocean. In the United States, pearl barley is the name applied to the most common form of barley used as food. Common sago occurs in larger grains, about the size of pearl barley, which are brownish white. Take two ounces of pearl barley, wash it well, and put it in cold water enough to cover it, for an hour. Mix a tablespoonful of pearl barley with a pint of water and boil for half-an-hour. Wash and pick one ounce of pearl barley, pour over it one tea cupful of water, and let it boil for ten minutes. Show More Sentences He wore a high crowned, pearl grey fedora, set squarely on his head and his fleecy coat had heavily padded shoulders. Never was a Japanese screen so realised as by these birds against the pearl grey sea and yellow sand. It was very neatly made up of black or brown and white cloth, black and white feathers, and pearl oyster Shells. The greatest depth at which the pearl oyster can be secured by the divers is thirteen fathoms. Some of the poorest of the natives eat the pearl oyster, but it is neither palatable nor wholesome. The most beautiful and costly pearls are obtained exclusively from the pearl oyster of the Indian Seas. The Meleagrina margaritifera, or pearl oyster of the Indian seas, yields the most numerous and finest specimens. Fig. 165 represents the pearl oyster with calcareous concretions in various states of progress. The dugong is found in large numbers in Hervey's Bay, from which the famed oil is manufactured, also the pearl oyster. But she did not say anything then to Helen about the pearl necklace, and the cashbox of Queen Zelaya. They are globular, ovoid, or pyriform, and are sold by the individual pearl. Find more words! 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