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He put the glasses down on a small table, a delicate trifle of rosewood inlaid with mother-of - pearl, and set to work on the bottle's cork.

You Don't Take Names Ajay Nair 2010

It was a small gun with mother-of. pearl stocks carved with the figure of a rose.

Gabriel's Lady Seymour, Ana 1996

In the caves, too, he saw new forms of life -- the many-coloured sea-anemones, sea-weeds, shells; and in the sea itself fishes shining like mother-of pearl.

Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn. Caroline Hadley

But the magnet urged her forward, and Corona hurried over the bridge to the next door, which was of pink mother-of pearl, apparently made out of a single piece; and a beautiful design of roses and thorns was inlaid upon it, in ivory and gold.

The Lily of Life: A Fairy Tale 1913

But you shall sit with it in your left hand, your elbow resting on an Eastern table of black ebony inlaid with mother-of - pearl.

The Rosary 1909

There were shells in abundance, and of many different kinds, delicate pink ones, tiny cowries, twisted wentletraps, scallops, screw-shells, and some like mother-of - pearl.

Monitress Merle Angela Brazil 1907

Through an opening in the evergreens the far horizon, grey as mother-of - pearl, bent down to touch the plain in a misty line that was definite yet not clear.

Old Rose and Silver Myrtle Reed 1892

The richness of the papal utensils beggars description; jeweled cups, flagons of gold, knife handles of jasper and ivory, forks of mother-of - pearl and gold.

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 Various 1885

"You shouldn't combine the Paralympics with the Olympics," the 28-year-old mother-of four, from Croydon, told the BBC.

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She has been named locally as mother-of two Heather Cooper, of West Street, Haslemere, Surrey.

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