Have you not sufficiently studied the volume you were reading from to recollect what it says about pearls and--Limerick multitudes?
But he was not poor, and he had sent her pearls worthy of an empress, and Blanchette was dancing before her in envy, longing to be sixteen years old too and betrothed to an archi-millionaire.
Meanwhile Yseulte dismissed the maid, undressed herself slowly, kissed the pearls when she had unclasped them; and, kneeling down under her crucifix, said many prayers for Othmar.
She was the only living person who could say to this man, who could have purchased souls and bodies as he could have purchased strings of unpierced pearls if he had chosen: 'You desire something of which you will never be master.
It was Blanchette who took out the pearls and held them up in the lamplight, and appraised their value with the keenness of a jeweller and screamed in rapture over their size and colour.
As she chattered she clasped it round the throat of her cousin, who grew red, then white, as the pearls touched her skin.
I wish I could remember all the pearls which fell from his lips; but alas!
I wondered if this was one of the pearls he let drop in his letters to the wonderful English bas-bleu.
He had a collier of pearls which might have made a Cleopatra green with jealousy.
The Empress looked superb in a gown of an exquisite shade of lilac; she wore her beautiful pearls and a tiara of diamonds and pearls.
She left the room, taking the pearlswith her, and not a word more did Mr. Leslie say in allusion to her.
In the jewel-box was a string of pearls that had belonged to Marguerite's great-great-grandmother.
It is said that pearls mean tears, yet they are favourite gifts for brides, and no maiden fears to wear them on her way up the aisle where her bridegroom waits.
Empires have been bartered for jewels, and for a string of pearls many a woman has sold her soul.
A French writer claims that if it be true that the oyster can be forced to make as many pearls as may be required of it, the jewel will become so common that my lady will no longer care to decorate herself with its pale splendour.
She was going almost immediately to Africa for some shooting, so I literally flew into the wilds of Surrey and begged her on my knees to lend me her pearls for the Lycester House dance.
They are undoubtedly Bombay pearls of very fine orient.
In spite of the number of pearls and a general similarity there are certain technical differences, well known to experts, that made the fact indisputable.
There is the lady in Surrey from whom the pearls were borrowed, a Mr Tantroy who seems to have been consulted, and, finally, your own servants.
Except that now Markhams' pearls have gone and they are hinting at all manner of diabolical things," she wrathfully reminded him.
It was a string of pearls that he sent me from Vienna, only a month before he died; not real, of course, because poor papa was always quite utterly on the verge himself, but very good imitation and in perfect taste.
I wore the pearls often and millions of people had seen them.
The river giant found out about it and sent a necklace of pearls and diamonds as a wedding gift to the bride of the lad whom he had brought up in his palace.
In spite of her long wanderings and great anguish of mind she was still very lovely as she knelt before the Giant of the Great Wind in her soft silvery green garments embroidered with pearls and diamonds.
Now, what was mortal of him lay beneath the palm tree, beneath the glowing summer sky, while the first snow-flakes hung like pearls on her pall.
And Margaret lay questioning with herself, whether the schoolmistress had not been the most self-denying of the two; but withal gazing on the hoop of pearls which Alan had chosen as the ring of betrothal.
Italy asked hides and dyes in return for her brocades, pearls and linen.
From thence came gold, pearls "very orient and big withall," sugar and molasses.
Sidenote: 1500] Cabral made commercial settlements at Calicut and the neighboring town of Cochin, and came home with unheard-of riches in spice, pearls and gems.
Like Heine's sweetheart, she was abundantly provided with diamonds and pearls and all things which mankind can wish.
But presents of this sort are even more difficult to compass than the other sort where people, like the lady sung by Heine, have pearls and diamonds in plenty, and all things which mankind can wish.
Instead of her pearls she wore a long thin necklace of diamonds that seemed to frost her gown.
As she was too old and yellow forpearls she compromised on jet earrings and necklace.
Her pearls might not be real, but her gown was superlatively expensive, her evening wrap of mauve velvet lined with ermine, and her little car perfectly turned out.
She wore the three rows of pearls that had excited almost as much speculation as her mysterious self.
She wore no jewels, as she clung to the rigorous law of her youth which had tabued the vulgar display of anything but pearls in the daytime.
The fire-light played on her sweet face, so young and girlish still in its outlines, on her pretty hands clasped on her knees, on her arms which glittered with pearls, on the pearls that rested on her neck.
She was in white silk; a low dress, somewhat richly trimmed with lace, and pearls in her hair.
She was beautifully dressed, had splendid jewels--pearls as big as eggs.
So many foreigners have bought pearls that the prices have all gone up.
This morning we pottered about the Ponte Vecchio, where all the shops look exactly the same, and apparently the same old wrinkled men bending over their pearls and turquoises.
There, run along home, do, and scatter your pearlsbefore your relations.
The dresses of the women were richer by far with gold and silver, and pearls and other jewels, than those of the men, but were generally darker in tone, for that was the fashion then.
And all those barons have crowns of gold upon their heads, full noble and rich, full of precious stones and greatpearls orient.
And therein pilgrims cast gold and silver, pearls and precious stones without number, instead of offerings.
And he hath about his neck 300 pearls orient, good and great and knotted, as paternosters here of amber.
And all these degrees be bordered with fine gold, with the tother precious stones, set with great pearls orient.
And all about there is y-made large nets of silk and gold and great pearlshanging all about the mountour.
In that realm be fair men, and they go full nobly arrayed in clothes of gold, orfrayed and apparelled with great pearls and precious stone's full nobly.
And therefore, thou shall not eat but precious stones, rich pearls and treasure, that thou lovest so much.
Pearls are en regle for weddings only, but how was poor pa to know that?
If the rose silk and pearls fail to finish him, then there is another project on the carpet.
And when an hour after, she descended, in a sweeping robe of silvery blue, white lilies in her yellow hair, and pale pearls clasping her slim throat, she looked fair as a dream.
I am to wear a pink silk with trimmings of real point, and pa sent home a set of pearls from Tiffany's yesterday, for which he gave $1,000.
Trays of diamonds, rubies, emeralds and pearls were presented to her for choice.
For Isolde he had given her strings of blackpearls which the jewellers of Europe had been collecting for more than a year.
The distance of these edges from each other varies indefinitely, the pearls of the finest water having them closest.
She was lying on a purple couch in her dressing-room; a thin silken chemise and yellow slippers thickly sown with turquoises and pearls composed her entire dress.
Costly ornaments and silken and woolen robes in all the colors of the rainbow were brought in, shoes stiff with rich embroidery of pearls and jewels were tied on to their tender feet, and golden girdles fastened round their waists.
Tears rolled down among the pearls and diamonds, as strange a contrast as the proud tiara and its unhappy, fainting wearer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pearls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
