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pearly

adjective as in opalescent

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The rock star ended the message by making Walker an offer: "So if I do manage to get through the pearly gates, I'll have a pint of Guinness, please mate, and guess what? I'll pick up the tab. See you later, Johnny. Rock on mate, rock on."

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It is as Cockney as a Pearly Queen in a three-wheeler Del Boy van.

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“For example, when you look at oyster shells, they have an iridescence of pearly green and blue, and that’s definitely from minerals like copper,” she says.

When Bruno is taken, Pearly ventures after him, enduring human evil and a challenging landscape to rescue her ursine brother.

In a logging camp in 1934 New Brunswick, newborn Pearly is raised alongside Bruno, a foundling bear cub given to her father.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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