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Later in the film, when she comes on wearing a strand of pearls, he snorts, “She looks like the queen.”

Caligula drank “pearls of great price dissolved in vinegar.”

Both have elicited the same hand wringing and pearls clutching.

Plenty of us women were enjoying the same behavior (clutch your pearls); it was fun.

Miller first appeared on the cover of Vogue in 1927 in a blue hat and pearls, drawn by renowned French illustrator Georges Lepape.

Then, in a bitter temper, she stooped again to rescue the bit of discolored paper that had fallen with the pearls.

The extensive dominions of Portugal in the east had fallen off one by one, as pearls from a broken thread.

The string of pearls was coiled up in the midst of the roll of soiled muslin and the badge was pinned to one of the folds.

And this virtue, O King Loc, which for the mind is what the soft radiance of pearls is for the eyes, is pity.

She vowed she should never wear them again, as her skin was no longer white enough for pearls.

April 23, 2024inveterate

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