mother-o'-pearl

So I takes up the knife, which had got a mother-o'-pearl handle to it, and tries to cut the apple, but I could only make a mark on it such as you see on a hot-cross-bun.

True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best Theodore P. Wilson

The lady should wear it inside out, so all could see its exquisite mother-o'-pearl.

Lord Dolphin Harriet A. Cheever

They reminded me very much of the Alhambra, only, instead of the honeycomb vaulted ceilings, and arches decorated in stucco by the Moors, the Eastern architect inlaid his ceilings with an extraordinary incrustation of glass, usually silvered on the back, but also frequently coloured, and giving a strange effect of mother-o'-pearl inlay, bordering on tawdriness when examined in detail.

A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

Some few years since the consumption of mother-o'-pearl shells in Birmingham amounted to nearly one thousand tons annually; the failure of the fisheries in Central

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886 Various

There they stayed till the pink stole through the grey, and the sky gleamed mother-o'-pearl.

Celtic Tales, Told to the Children Louey Chisholm

As for the Princess Mary Radiant -- why, it's only in the sunshine that the bells look like silver, and the cockle-shells like mother-o'-pearl, and it's only to the sun that the sunflowers turn their heads every day ... and we all know the sun can be "contrary" enough!

More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme Ada M. Marzials

Paths of grass, green as emeralds and sparkling with dew like diamonds, bordered on each side with shells that shone like mother-o'-pearl.

More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme Ada M. Marzials

And now the shoe swum straight on, darting through the water like an eel; until a large town came in sight, with high walls and Palaces, and shining domes covered with mother-o'-pearl.

Soap-Bubble Stories For Children Fanny Barry

As he gazed there appeared before him paths of grass, green as emeralds and sparkling with dew, and bordered on each side with shells that glowed like mother-o'-pearl.

More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme Ada M. Marzials

Just a slanting mother-o'-pearl eye in the battered head of a god or goddess of India, with features almost obliterated by the passage of centuries.

Leonie of the Jungle Joan Conquest