pearliness
- a word derived from pearly.
Example Sentences
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Liszt gave it with a velvety softness, clearness, brilliancy and pearliness of touch that was inimitable.
From Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Fay, Amy
The drive was a mere rutted cart-track; hemlock, foxgloves, purple knapweed, blue scabious and tall, thin-stemmed buttercups grew along the tangled hedges, and the blackberry flowers patterned the brambles with pearliness.
From Beggars on Horseback by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)
Patiently, piece by piece, he must go over all this, watching for that faint blue haze, that deepening of the atmosphere, that almost imagined pearliness against the distant hills which meant new fire.
From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward
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
Do let me teach you to understand the heavenly pearliness of these lines.
From The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie
