He is driven on an island, where he catches a glimpse of Love, and finds a Margaret, a pearl of price.
Cockle, shell; referring to the shell in which the pearl was supposed to be generated by dew.
I will give command to make a bath for thee in the form of a shell; thou wilt be like a costly pearl in it.
He noticed that her arms had a marvellous pale rose-color, and her bosom and shoulders the transparent reflections ofpearl or alabaster.
Even Nero himself on occasions called these expeditions "pearl hunts," for it happened that in the depth of districts occupied by a numerous and needy population they caught a real pearl of youth and beauty sometimes.
Her hair, glossy and brown, with burnished red lights where the rays of the dull autumn sun struck on it through the window, was heaped high on her head and held in place by a fillet of pearl beads.
You are beautiful, with the beauty of a pearl or a star or a white flower.
She asked herself his own question, "Is genius, like the pearl in the oyster, only a splendid disease?
Her fingers played nervously with the pearl necklace that rose and fell on her bosom.
With the thought, she sat down before the escritoire, dipping a pearl and gold pen, as she paused for the words with which to begin the note.
I'm so stale with dolce far niente, after the Black Pearl affair last month, that I act like an amateur myself.
Common sago occurs in larger grains, about the size of pearl barley, which are brownish white.
It is sometimes sold as pearl moss, and is employed in the place of gelatine or isinglass for preparing blanc-manges, jellies, &c.
Granulated sago is of two kinds, pearl and common brown.
The Spirits gathered round, and began to lift her mantle off; but underneath they saw the pearl chain, shining with a clear, soft light, that only glowed more brightly when they laid their hands upon it.
All about the walls our South Sea curiosities, war clubs, idols, pearl shells, stone axes, etc.
Before no work of mortal hand, Of human will or strength expand The pearl gates of the Better Land; Alone in that great love which gave Life to the sleeper of the grave, Resteth the power to seek and save.
A pair of cranes cried softly as they roosted for the night, and a pearl grey mist rolled down to the meadows and enveloped them in innumerable murkyscarves.
She had re-dressed her hair gorgeously, and wore a pearl necklace round her throat.
In the days when burglary was punished with death, there was very seldom any remission, I was in court one day at Guildford, when a respectably-dressed man in a velveteen suit of a yellowy green colour and pearl buttons came up to me.
The black scaffold was lighted up with the radiance that streamed through the pearl gates.
Even there the "pearl gate" opened wide, and the ransomed soul arose in power, and walked forth into the marvelous light of the world above.
And I am down here, pleading for permission to address this pearl of price.
She was, as usual, a marvel of beflounced silk, false curls, rouge, andpearl powder.
The sunset died out and the river stretched first pearl and then lead and then ebony.
Haven’t you got a garden where you can walk and a tight house, and a pearl net for your hair, and a velvet shoe?
Blue sea, pearl mountains, and that invisible that held and was both, and rising with both surpassed.
