Example Sentences

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In the east the sky was lightening gently, a pearlish, pre-dawn luminescence that made the people of the graveyard uncomfortable and made them think about returning to their comfortable homes.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

Off toward the east dawn trembled on the edge of eternity and sent up, as if the earth were lighting the horizon, a pearlish light shotted with pink.

From Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole by Hurst, Fannie