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Take up no pearly drop from the lake, mother of pearliness, lest falling it sound too loudly.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various

This gives a good imitation of phosphorescence, as well as a slight pearliness, whilst the tinsel, seen through the paint and the curious milkiness of the glass, gives good "fire."

From The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones by Mastin, John

His curly hair was golden; his cheeks were pink; his lips, coral red, parted incessantly to reveal the glistening pearliness of his teeth.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion by Ellis, Havelock

In the purple gloom that followed the white cloisters of the courtyard glowed with a faintly luminous pearliness.

From The Sea-Hawk by Sabatini, Rafael

No fond mother crooning to her first-born ever looked on budding teeth more delightful in modelling and pearliness.

From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)