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Example sentences for "pearly"

Lexicographically close words:
pearlers; pearles; pearling; pearlite; pearls; pears; peart; peas; peasant; peasantry
  1. Her coral lips would part, and display the pearly treasures beneath, when I would shrink back timid and fearful lest I should be guilty of a theft and steal a treasure from the coral bow.

  2. When we reach the pearly gateways, and look in with joyful eyes, We'll see no stylish worship in the temple of the skies.

  3. There, like a pearly waif, just past the reach Of foamy billows he lies cast.

  4. No wardens now by sedgy fountains dwell, Nor pearly Naiads.

  5. Though the vermilion dusk still lingered over Mount Royal, softly purple in the fading light, the moon, pearly and splendid, swung high in the east, accompanied by a vaguely scintillating star at the zenith.

  6. The chant of the St. Lawrence filled the air, the river trembling with violet tints and glancing pearly shafts.

  7. It changed in a moment to a pearly smile.

  8. If a man should insist upon becoming a victim of the badger game, he could probably succeed, upon search in Minetta Lane, as indeed, he could on any of the great avenues, but then Minetta Lane is not supposed to be a pearly street of Paradise.

  9. The brook changed its colour, and in the dusk showed a tumble of pearly white among the rocks.

  10. He loved the red gold of the sunstone, and the moonstone's pearly whiteness, and the broken rainbow of the milky opal.

  11. She showed her appreciation of our company by the glances of her black and flashing eyes, and the exposure of two rows of beautifully even and pearly teeth.

  12. The little child runs out, with outspread palm, to catch the cool and pearly drops.

  13. I love to think of the sinless little ones, whose pearly temples have here been laved at the baptismal font.

  14. Besides, good dry champagne was sending up its pearly sparkles in a beautifully-cut crystal decanter.

  15. Her cheeks were died with a deep purple blush; her eyes shone with bright pearly tears, which from time to time fell through her silken eyelashes upon her beautiful lily-white bosom.

  16. The whole sun is hidden and the heavens are lighted up with pearly streamers!

  17. Her brow from her black falling hair Ascends like morn: her nose is clear As morning hills, and finely fair With pearly nostrils curving near The red bow of her upper lip; Her bosom's the white wave beneath the ship.

  18. He gazed long upon the pearly lamp of heaven.

  19. Already the sky above the sea was bright as a frosted globe of glass, and pearly fingers of light were stealing upward over the interior mountains.

  20. When the moon again unclosed its pearly sheen over the ice, the serpentine chasms moved their tortuous backs and writhed about them, the icy hummocks billowed, and the glittering ice-peaked horizon swam in a dizzy circle of diamonded light.

  21. I'm only thankful that she did not make her pearly teeth meet in my finger in true Undine fashion.

  22. It is beautifully marked, of a golden brown, and the edges, of the wings are bordered with a narrow vandyking of pearly gray.

  23. Hardly a ripple disturbed the pearly serenity of the ocean; the only spot of land to be seen was a tiny island just peeping up on the sky-line away to starboard.

  24. With his total disappearance the wind dropped entirely, and the boat stood pulseless upon the pearly levels of the deep.

  25. Then rose gray clouds; thin fluttered first the snow, Then like loose shaken fleeces, then in dense streams That muffled gradually all below In pearly smoothness.

  26. When first I saw this landscape it was suffused with a sweet and pearly light, that came not from sun or moon or stars, but from a luminous body in shape like a folded fan, of which the handle rested on the earth.

  27. The day was tranquil, quiet, pearly grey, with fog upon the mountain-head.

  28. Still the same pearly sky, the same quietude, the same stretches of water crept under the trees, the same heavy road, and halts and going on.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pearly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ashen; cream; creamy; dappled; delicate; dingy; dismal; dreary; dull; dusty; eggshell; fair; filmy; flat; glaucous; gloss; gray; grey; grizzled; grizzly; iridescent; ivory; leaden; light; livid; mellow; moire; nacreous; opalescent; pale; pastel; pearl; pearly; quiet; sad; silver; silvery; simple; smoky; sober; soft; softened; somber; steely; subdued; subtle; sweet; taupe; tender