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    pearl


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    1. Young girls in scarves of white satin, stockings of red cotton and heavy brocade jackets staggered under heirloom medallion chains of heavy gold, links of pearl, lace and beads


    2. 46Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and


    3. 21And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the


    4. When darkness fell, the fairies worked on by the light of a magic pearl


    5. A small gold heart with a pearl in the middle, it was just what she’d been looking for


    6. “I hate to do it, when she’s a pearl who should bring


    7. The next evening, Chloe asked to borrow my pearl necklace


    8. Of this kind are all naval stores, masts, yards, and bowsprits, tar, pitch, and turpentine, pig and bar iron, copper ore, hides and skins, pot and pearl ashes


    9. After hearing this pearl of wisdom an ironic jeer went up from the ranks because this information and plan was the same bullshit that we had been fed before and look where that had got us nowhere


    10. Recall that General Jimmy Doolittle was not in favor of a carrier-based attack on Japan in retaliation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, maintaining as he did that such an attack would be both unnecessary and suicidal

    11. One could make the case that America at least in some sense invited the Pearl Harbor attack by imposing the trade embargo on Japan and freezing their financial assets


    12. She had a lovely smile that he would not have called plain however, and she flashed her pearl white teeth when she scanned him with the Power


    13. it was an oil embargo (sanctions) which led to Japan attacking Pearl Harbour


    14. Kay turned, her heart aching, staring out at the rolling sea, at the movement of waves beneath the mother of pearl moon as it shimmered into life in the onyx sky


    15. The silver and pearl necklace I had given her in gratitude for being my bridesmaid hung on her chest shining brightly against the royal blue chiffon dress


    16. In such an atmosphere, where many Americans even called for genocide, the murder of every last Japanese as revenge for Pearl Harbor, it is appalling but not surprising there were few objections to targeting Japanese civilians


    17. Even if one accepts American carpet bombing of both Germany and Japan as misplaced anger over the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attack was on a military target


    18. ) In such an atmosphere, where many Americans even called for genocide, the murder of every last Japanese as revenge for Pearl Harbor, it is appalling but not surprising there were few objections to targeting Japanese civilians by the A-bomb's use


    19. The public hysteria in America following the attacks on September 11 was the most extreme the nation had seen since Pearl Harbor, and with some similar results


    20. That home-made vest with shirt-type pockets up high, with their fake pearl buttons, was Big Frank’s distinctive trademark

    21. His torso, with sharply drooping shoulders and domed belly, was encased in a tight-fitting Western-cut shirt adorned with mother of pearl buttons


    22. While he despised Hitler, Long was also an isolationist, and so prior to Pearl Harbor would have avoided not just war, but even preparing for war as FDR did with a draft and military buildup in 1940


    23. And of course that home-made navy-blue vest with the fake pearl shirt buttons


    24. Below was a crisp white blouse with starched collar and pearl buttons open to cleavage


    25. Robert Wolstedter's Pearl Harbor: Warning or Decision, for example, debunked the claim about Roosevelt's supposed blame for Pearl Harbor


    26. seashells oysters with mother of pearl, blue mussels and scal-


    27. "I have a rare yellow pearl, from the Island of Pearls


    28. He was a federalized State Guard officer who had been called up after Pearl Harbor


    29. He stepped up to another level in the club; its gracious pearl


    30. goodly pearls; who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went

    31. “sell all that you have to buy the pearl of great price


    32. What is the pearl of great price? scriptures say, “Wisdom is the prin-


    33. Pearl was worth about thirty-five million


    34. When Pearl first arrived from the East, she had a drinking problem and a smoking


    35. “Hi, Charles,” said Pearl


    36. “Can I have ten too, dear?” said Pearl


    37. Everyone was happy to see us, especially Pearl


    38. Dan had brought Pearl and Jasper their trays


    39. Pearl was down in the living room watching Wheel of Fortune, which both Jasper and I detested


    40. Pearl in Jasper’s household had a lot more money than Jasper and she slept in the master bedroom and Jasper slept in the guest

    41. It was the “vag ze dog” thing, Kosmo said, clearly referring to Wag the Dog, a film in which Levenson, DeNiro, and Hoffman either offered a strategic pearl or tipped off


    42. After Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto uttered his famous portent, “I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled her with a terrible resolve


    43. While she was in the kitchen, the old man turned to Juliet and laid down the pearl of the evening


    44. Mat 13:46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it


    45. (12-07-1941) Pearl Harbor: the citizens opposed entering into war with Germany and Japan


    46. FDR new beforehand of the attack on Pearl Harbor and let it happen; a death toll of 2,403


    47. Elena: I have never seen a pearl having this shape


    48. Isodor, as he was lifting the golden light necklace with the pearl star attached and putting it around his sister’s neck: This is from the deepest corners of the East


    49. merchant finds a pearl of great price, in both these parables, the man finding this


    50. verse 45, where a merchant finds a pearl of great price, and in these parables, the












































    1. Then tears pearled at the corners of her eyes


    2. Like the chambered nautilus, moving from one pearled room to the next


    3. In front of the United Cigar Store on this before-noon Sunday with the bells of all churches ringing across here, colliding with each other there, showering sound from the sky now that the rain was spent, in front of the cigar store the Cherokee wooden Indian stood, his carved plumes pearled with water, oblivious to Catholic or Baptist bells, oblivious to the steadily approaching sun-bright cymbals, the thumping pagan heart of the carnival band


    1. propriety and moderation, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing, but, which is proper for women professing godliness, with good works


    2. 21And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the


    3. Every once in a while Roman could see the pearls under her lips when she


    4. On each gate there is twelve pearls,


    5. Slipping into her own gown, she hunted desperately, for something to set off the plunging neckline, of pearls and brocade


    6. God hides his pearls for the hungry and wise ones to find


    7. "Pearls and jewels," said the other


    8. So he bought beautiful dresses, pearls, and jewels for his two stepdaughters


    9. She was very elegantly coiffed, fine strings of pearls woven


    10. next day to present me with an elegant string of pink-tinged pearls

    11. So I turned to her once again for her pearls of wisdom at the


    12. ” Gasper picked up his chalice and drank, the pearls in his bracelet shining


    13. It had a high-necked collar with no neckline, suited to the most modest noblewoman, buttoned up with white pearls


    14. When infused, the pearls slowly uncurl into needle shaped leaves


    15. She only wore clothes that were white, lavender or lilac and always with a single strand of cultured pearls


    16. "I have a rare yellow pearl, from the Island of Pearls


    17. goodly pearls; who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went


    18. it is those pearls that we should


    19. chests with many pearls of great price, which are His pearls of wisdom,


    20. learned—for it is these pearls that gave us the hope and courage to

    21. 18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls, for the price of wisdom is above rubies


    22. 40 Also of onyx stones, bdellium, pearls and marble did the children of Cush throw to Moses on the heap, also silver and gold in great abundance


    23. The pearls and diamonds hanging around her neck looked


    24. No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies


    25. That smiling tropical elfess appeared, wearing a great headdress of multicolored feathers and pearls, and a very colorful linen sheet with flower patterns draped about her in a manner that left half her shapely bosom bared


    26. The pillars on either side were made of the purest gold, the walls single mother of pearls; silver was the lining the edges


    27. Small pearls accented this area in a stars-in-the-sky type of arrangement


    28. My kirtle was also accented with the same dark blue embroidery pattern and pearls


    29. I would also be wearing a double headband of sorts, which was decorated with pearls as well


    30. I decided to wrap the blue ribbon around my headband in between the pearls and tie the excess behind my neck under my hair

    31. Do not throw the pearls to pigs lest they grind it to bits


    32. 6 " Don't give that which is holy to the dogs neither throw your pearls before the pigs lest perhaps they trample them under their feet and turn and tear you to pieces


    33. 45 "Again the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls 46 who having found one pearl of great price he went and sold all that he had and bought it


    34. 21 Give not that which is holy to the dogs neither throw your pearls before the pigs lest they trample them with their feet and return and wound you; And he said to them Who of you that has a friend goes to him at mid- night and says to him My friend lend me three loaves; for a friend has come to me from a journey and I have nothing to offer to him and that friend shall answer him from within and say to him Trouble me not; for the door is shut and my children are with me in bed and I cannot rise and give you? And Truely I say to you If he will not give him because of friendship yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him what he seeks; And I also say to you Ask and you shall be given to; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you


    35. 28 And again the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking excellent pearls; and when he found one pearl of great price he went and sold everything that he had and bought it


    36. He took out a large brooch set with rubies and pearls, in the form of a butterfly


    37. Do not judge so that you will not be judged because with what judgment you judge you shall be judged and with what measure you give it shall be given back to you again and why look at the splinter that is in your brother’s eye but you do not consider the beam that is in your own eye? or how can you say to your brother: Let me pull out the splinter from your eye? and note a beam is in your own eye! You hypocrite! first throw out the beam from your own eye and then you shall see clearly to throw out the splinter from your brother’s eye! Do not give that which is holy to the dogs neither throw your pearls before pigs in case they trample them under their feet and turn and lacerate you; Ask and it shall be given you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened for you because everyone who asks receives and he who seeks finds and for him who knocks it shall be opened; because what man is there of you whom if his son asks for bread will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish will give him a serpent? If you then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children how much more shall your Father who is in Heaven give good things to those who ask Him? therefore everything that you would desire that men should do to you even so do it to them because this is the law and the prophets; Enter in at the straight gate because the gate that leads to destruction is wide and the way is broad and there are many who go in that way because the way which leads to life is straight and the gate is narrow and there are few who find it; Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inside they are ravaging wolves; you shall know them by their fruits; do men gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles? even so every good tree produces good fruit but a corrupt tree produces evil fruit; A good tree cannot produces evil fruit neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit; every tree which does not produce good fruit is chopped down and thrown into the fire therefore by their fruits you shall know them; Not everyone who says to Me: Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but he who does the will of my Father who is in Heaven; Many will say to Me in that day: Lord Lord have we not prophesied in your name and in your name have expelled demons and in your name have done many wonderful works? and I then will proclaim to them: I never knew you; depart from Me you who do works of evil; therefore whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock and where the rain fell and the floods came and the winds blew and beat upon that house and it did not fall because it was established on a rock; and everyone who hears these sayings of mine and does not do them shall be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand; and when the rain fell and the floods came and the winds blew and beat on that house and it collapsed the fall of it was great


    38. Again the Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant man seeking expensive pearls who when he had found one pearl of great price he went and sold all that he possessed and bought it; again the Kingdom of Heaven is like a net which was thrown into the sea and gathered things of every kind which when it was full they dragged towards the shore and sat down and gathered the good into containers but throw the bad away; so it shall be at the end of the world; the angels shall come forward and separate the evil from among the just and shall throw them into the furnace of fire where there shall be wailing and grinding of teeth


    39. 18:4-20 Come out of her my people so that you are not partakers in her sins and so that you do not receive her plagues because her sins have reached up to Heaven and God has remembered her sins; Reward her double even as she rewarded you and for her double it according to her works; In the cup which she has filled fill it doubly for her; How much she has glorified herself and lived delicately! so therefore give her much torment and sorrow because she says in her heart: “I sit a queen and am no widow and shall see no sorrow” therefore her plagues shall come in one day death and mourning and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire because strong is the Lord God who judges her; and the kings of the Earth who have committed fornication and lived delicately with her shall grieve for her and lament for her from the fear of her torment when standing far away they shall see the smoke of her burning saying: Disaster! Disaster! That great city Babylon! that mighty city because in one hour your judgment has come! and the merchants of the Earth shall weep and mourn over her because no man buys their merchandise any more; the merchandise of gold and silver and precious stones and of pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet and all your wood and all manner vessels of ivory and all manner of vessels of most precious wood and of brass and iron and marble and cinnamon and odours and ointments and frankincense and wine and oil and fine flour and wheat and beasts and sheep and horses and chariots and slaves and the souls of men; and the fruits that your soul lusted after have departed from you and all things which were dainty and good have departed from you and you shall never find them any more at all; The merchants of these things who were made rich by her shall stand far away from the fear of her torment weeping and wailing and you all will say: Disaster! Disaster! that great city which was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls! because in one hour such enormous riches have come to nothing; and every shipmaster and all the crews in ships and sailors and as many as trade by sea stood far away and cried when they saw the smoke from her burning! They were saying: What city is like this great city! And they threw dust on their heads and cried weeping and wailing saying: Disaster disaster; that great city of which all those who had ships in the sea were made rich because of her costliness because in one hour she was made desolate! Rejoice over her Heaven and you holy apostles and prophets because God has avenged you against her


    40. pearls and hidden treasure

    41. others strung like pearls on the graceful spiral arms that orbit


    42. I saw the gates of pearls,


    43. His wife’s beautiful pearls scattered, some rolling into the sewer


    44. Three white pearls flashed in her palm


    45. I told Grover and Annabeth what had happened, and showed them the pearls


    46. My hand moved against my will and brought out the pearls


    47. We smashed the pearls at our feet


    48. That was the power of the pearls, I realized-What belongs to the sea will always return to the sea


    49. With only seconds to spare I whipped it out, shooting a string of pearls onto breasts and belly


    50. A bevy of tight perms, tweed costumes, well-aligned stockings, sensible shoes, silk blouses and modest strings of pearls, shared hostess duties with a few couturier clad bosoms swathed in yards of silk, stiletto-heels, smart hats, handbags, and demurely clasped gloves











































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    Synonyms for "pearl"

    bone ivory off-white pearl bead drop

    "pearl" definitions

    a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel


    a shade of white the color of bleached bones


    a shape that is spherical and small


    gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean