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  • Slips are usually made of some very soft material such as nainsook, batiste, pearline, or sheer lawn cloth.

    The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler

  • Where soft water is not available for household use, hard water may be softened by the addition to it of pearline or soda, or by boiling, in the latter case the lime in it being precipitated to the bottom of the kettle or boiler.

    Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife Marion Mills Miller 1906

  • At one moment you are looking down into valleys a thousand feet below, at another, over luminous leagues of meadow or cane-field, you see some far crowding of cones and cratered shapes; -- sharp as the teeth of a saw, and blue as sapphire, -- with further eminences ranging away through pearline color to high - peaked remotenesses of vapory gold.

    Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • The further western altitudes shift their pearline gray to deep blue where the sky is yellowing up behind them; and in the darkening hollows of nearer mornes strange shadows gather with the changing of the light -- dead indigoes, fuliginous purples, rubifications as of scoriae, -- ancient volcanic colors momentarily resurrected by the illusive haze of evening.

    Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • I think that the windows and the balconies were thronged, and that the pearline beach was crowded with those who had come to see Him sail out the harbor of light into the oceans beyond.

    The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony 1867

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