seed-pearl

There's a tantalising promise of liberality, in the cascading satin dress with its embroidered pomegranate motifs, and in Eleonora's long lilly-fingered left hand languidly toying with the seed-pearl tassel (possibly deigned by Benvenuto Cellini).

Bronzino's Medici portraits – review James Hall 2010

And are you brave enough to side with laughter if I face my purplish, raw reflection and attempt the difficult entry of that chamber where the seed-pearl of my farce and equally opalescent sorrow lie waiting?

The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

And are you brave enough to side with laughter if I face my purplish, raw reflection and attempt the difficult entry of that chamber where the seed-pearl of my farce and equally opalescent sorrow lie waiting?

The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

And are you brave enough to side with laughter if I face my purplish, raw reflection and attempt the difficult entry of that chamber where the seed-pearl of my farce and equally opalescent sorrow lie waiting?

The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

She'd spend hours on her bed with Josie beside her, touching her baby's skin, her seed-pearl toes, the pulse of her fontanel.

Nineteen Minutes Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2007

It was surmounted by a canopy, which, as well as the cushions, side-curtains, and the very footcloth, was composed of crimson velvet, embroidered with seed-pearl.

Kenilworth 2004

Fanny Elsing, crying “Mamma, may I?” was tearing from her curls the seed-pearl ornament set in heavy gold which had been in the family for generations.

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

Fanny Elsing, crying “Mamma, may I?” was tearing from her curls the seed-pearl ornament set in heavy gold which had been in the family for generations.

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

Fanny Elsing, crying “Mamma, may I?” was tearing from her curls the seed-pearl ornament set in heavy gold which had been in the family for generations.

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

Fanny Elsing, crying “Mamma, may I?” was tearing from her curls the seed-pearl ornament set in heavy gold which had been in the family for generations.

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996