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1 The darkness lifted, and, flushed with faint fires, the sky hollowed itself into a perfect pearl.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 7
2 Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-coloured pearls in the mouths of the dead.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11
3 The King of Malabar had shown to a certain Venetian a rosary of three hundred and four pearls, one for every god that he worshipped.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11
4 The ducal hat of Charles the Rash, the last Duke of Burgundy of his race, was hung with pear-shaped pearls and studded with sapphires.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11
5 A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11
6 Edward II gave to Piers Gaveston a suit of red-gold armour studded with jacinths, a collar of gold roses set with turquoise-stones, and a skull-cap parseme with pearls.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11
7 On one occasion he took up the study of jewels, and appeared at a costume ball as Anne de Joyeuse, Admiral of France, in a dress covered with five hundred and sixty pearls.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11
8 Its curtains were of damask, with leafy wreaths and garlands, figured upon a gold and silver ground, and fringed along the edges with broideries of pearls, and it stood in a room hung with rows of the queen's devices in cut black velvet upon cloth of silver.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11