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Like heaven's gates
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pearly
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES pearly gates COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN gate ▪ And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates . ▪ St Peter had opened the pearly gates and St John Ogilvie had prodded home the penalty. PHRASES FROM OTHER ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of a pale greyish white colour, tinted with blue. n. 1 (context uncountable uncommon dated English) A pale greyish white colour, tinted with blue. 2 (context countable British especially in plural English) tooth
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from pearl + -y (2). Related: Pearliness . The pearly gates of Heaven (or the New Jerusalem) are attested by 1708, from Rev. 21:21.
Usage examples of pearly.
There were shimmering gleams of pearly white and ivory yellow, under beardy trails of moss old as the marble out of which it grew.
She reached out to him, smiling, and pressed the pearly homuncule into his own breast.
Peri floating easefully out of some far-off sphere of sky-wonders,--an aerial Maiden-Shape glided into the full lustre of the varying light,--a dancer, nude save for the pearly glistening veil that was carelessly cast about her dainty limbs, her white arms and delicate ankles being adorned with circlets of tiny, golden bells, which kept up a melodious jinglejangle as she moved.
He then had every pearly phrase redrafted by some idiot until its impact was killed.
It was a natural break in the wall of the cavern that had been trimmed into a keyhole arch shape and then subsequently covered with the pearly stalagmitic stuff.
Of burnished metal, fretted and embossed With all the marvelous story of her birth Painted in prodigal splendor of rich tincts, And carved by heavenly artists,--crystal seas, And long-haired Nereids in their pearly shells, And all the wonder of her lucent limbs Sphered in a vermeil mist.
The most spectacular of Cretaceous mollusks were the ammonites, chambered cephalopods related to the modern pearly nautilus and, more distantly, to squid and octopus.
Several gobs of pearly semen clung to the cagework behind him where it had rebounded from her.
In the east appeared a faint pearly flush that by degrees spread itself over the whole arch of the sky and was welcomed by the barking of monkeys and the call of birds in the depths of the dew-steeped forest.
In the way the girl wailed forth some of her Tennysonian lines he detected a faint gleam as of something pearly in deep water.
It had been a long time since Willesden had seen a funeral like that of Pearly Gates.
I am subject to tell a tale make your cock stand up and yipe for the pink pearly way of young cunt or the lovely brown mucous-covered palpitating tune of the young boy-ass play your cock like a recorder.
Despite his position Shah Zaman smiled like the Genie through his pearly beard and declared that Scheherazade was right to think love ephemeral.
Wednesday came to break the monotony of the days, and since it was a lovely summer morning Beatrice got into a rather nice silky two-piece in a pale pearly pink, brushed her hair into a shining chignon, thrust her feet into high-heeled sandals and got into the elderly Daimler beside her aunt.
There was nothing to be seen except the pearly whirl of the Galaxy below, the distant external firefly galaxies, the smoky yellow blobs of the kugelblitz.