I reflect on the brutal, poor and masculine world of pearl diving and the refined, luxurious and largely female world of pearl wearing.
The skeleton was adorned with intricately crafted jewels of jade, amber, pyrite, and pearl.
The oyster dutifully coats the little marble with anouter layer of pearl and much time is saved not having to grow each pearl upfrom the size of a sand grain.
The following day I drive 40km north to Willie Creek farm - the only pearl farm offering Tours to the public.
Stephan Munch and Santiago Salinas, both of Stony Brook University in New York, were intrigued by a major difference in the lifespans of two populations of pearl mussels.
sago ground into small pearl-like grains.
She responds that the pearl necklace is definitely a go.
The pearl and pebble necklaces are a peculiarity of the peninsula.
And there are sumptuous jewels, among them a glorious salamander pendant, its body made of a fat baroque pearl.
The Gallery Inn just happens to be its hospitable pearl, a hotel that is as much a destination as the historic city around it.
The pearl-shaped emirate was little more than a string of nomadic tents 50 years ago, so no one is saying what will be on display inside the building.
Then there must be some pearl powder in it.
Happiness is a word which needs no explanation. It is explicitly as good as gold, silver, pearl and agate.
Each earring is in two parts. There is a red ruby on top and hanging under the ruby there is a large white pearl.
She wears a pearl necklace today.
Those belonging to the wealthy were often richly inlaid with mother of pearl.
Under the condition of" Pan-pearl River Delta", because of the coordination between Yunnan and Guangdong standing Pearl River Basin, the complementarity of industrial economy and the superiority of cooperation environment, two provinces had a cooperational necessity.
The pearl sparkled in the moonlight.
Writer Andrew McCarthy journeyed to Moorea and nearby isles to dive for a black pearl for his mother’s birthday.
Other imperial memorabilia for sale will include an 18th-century ceremonial pearl necklace and a ruyi scepter carved of boxwood, both believed to have been owned by Emperor Yongzheng.
Truth that's brighter than gem, trust, that's purer than pearl, brightest truth, purest trust in the universe.
The nine-room suite has walls inlaid with thousands of pieces of mother-of-pearl.
Well, that and her classic pearl necklace.
The banker laughed disagreeably and began trimming his nails with a pearl-handled pocketknife.
It would be nice to have him at home and keeping an eye on things but, in these uncertain times, once he left he would be like a pearl cast into the sea, she might never get him back.
That's why word of Britain's disappearing pearl-bordered fritillary, red-backed shrike and lost ghost orchid should be as riveting as any news bulletin.
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