pearliness
- a word derived from pearly.
Example Sentences
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Her profile was clear-cut; her mouth was strong and revealed between red, firm lips the even pearliness of her teeth.
From The Secret of the Night by Leroux, Gaston
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
Had ever peach such artistic hue, and teeth such pearly pearliness, and lips such positive sweetness, and brow such loveliness?
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 by Various
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
