Pearl of the world, Beloved and dear! How does my spirit eager pine But once to press those lips of thine!-- Yes, beauteous maid, Of form so fair! Pearl of the world, Beloved and dear! And if the theft Thine ire awake, A hundred fold I'd give it back,-- Thou beauteous maid, Of form so fair! Pearl of the world, Beloved and dear! by Taylor. LATER FRENCH LYRICS. During the latter half of the thirteenth century several new and highly artificial forms of verse were developed.英文原著 · 《Song and Legend From the Middle Ages》
"This is a great joke!" he cried. "You remember the pearl you were so keen about, Bunny, the emperor's pearl, the pearl money wouldn't buy? It seems it was entrusted to our little friend here, to take out to Canoodle Dum, and the poor little chap's gone and lost it; ergo, as we're Britishers, they think we've got it!"英文原著 · 《The Amateur Cracksman》
The company was received with the same hospitality by King Pamunkey, whose land was believed to be rich in copper and pearls. The copper was so flexible that Captain Newport bent a piece of it the thickness of his finger as if it had been lead. The natives were unwilling to part with it. The King had about his neck a string of pearls as big as peas, which would have been worth three or four hundred pounds, if the pearls had been taken from the mussels as they should have been.英文原著 · 《The Complete Writings-3》
I know that this man has been trying to dispose of some unmounted pearls to-day among jewellers in Maiden Lane. I'll bet he has been disposing of some of the Branford pearls, one by one. I'll follow that up. I'll arrest this 'fence' and hold him till he tells me what yeggman came to him with the pearls." "And if you find out, will you go with me to that house near Chatham Square, providing it was some one in that gang?" asked Craig eagerly. O'Connor shook his head. "I'd better keep out of it. They know me too well. Go alone.英文原著 · 《The Poisoned Pen》
The pearlers thought to get some fun out of him by giving him an oyster to open in which they had previously planted a pearl; he never saw the pearl and threw the oyster into the scuppers with the rest, and the pearlers had to go down on all fours and grope for that pearl among the stinking oysters. It was funny -- but not in the way they had intended.英文原著 · 《Three Elephant Power》
The two ladies looked at each other. Miss Gale made a negative signal, and Fanny said, "By-and-by. This will do instead, for it is as like as two peas. Now ask yourself how this comes to be in the house, and set in pearls. Why, they are worth three hundred pounds. I assure you that the master of this house is _fanatico per la musica;_ heard you sing Siebel at Homburg--raved about you--wanted to call on you. We had to drag him away from the place; and he declares you are the first singer in the world; and you cannot doubt his sincerity, for _here are the pearls."_英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
And of course, those Catholic opponents clutched their pearls And of course, those Catholic opponents clutched their pearls演讲 · 《Is civility a sham ~ Teresa Bejan》