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Definition of Impearled
1. impearl [v] - See also: impearl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impearled
Literary usage of Impearled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose by Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews (1910)
"... As Day or Night may rule ; and let Time see Its flowering crest impearled and
orient. A Sonnet is a coin : its face reveals The Soul,—its converse, ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1882)
"Mr. Rossetti proceeds to declare that the sonnet, as he conceives it, should be
carved in ivory or ebony, that its crest should be impearled, and further ..."
3. Illustrations of Tennyson by John Churton Collins (1891)
"The dew-impearled winds of dawn : This beautiful epithet is transferred from
Drayton, who applies it with more propriety to flowers :— Amongst the dainty ..."
4. Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry by Henry Headley, Henry Kett (1810)
"Silver-sanded shore, soul- shrined saint, milk-white swans, myrrh-breathing
Zephyr, nectar- dropping showers, dew-impearled flowers. ..."
5. Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry by Henry Kett (1810)
"... Where nightingales in Arden sit and sing Amongst the dainty dew-impearled
flowers ; Say thus, fair brook, when thou .shall see thy queen, Lo, ..."
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