Pearly

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Referring to the opalescent sheen seen by gross examination of colonies of Bordetella pertussis in culture

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He loved the red gold of the sunstone, and the moonstone's pearly whiteness, and the broken rainbow of the milky opal.

PEARLY Bluewaters International Consulting firm has stressed the need for organisations and businesses to deploy technology for business growth and continuity.

Experts Task Business Owners On Use Of Technology

The body is Pearly tinsel, ribbed with black thread and the thorax is orange Pearly tinsel.

ANGLING; WORLD of sport

Rigged on a light jighead, a Pearly Silver Dartspin was gobbled by a 36-inch snook under bright sun; only thing lacking was the writer's camera.

A BAND OF ANGLERS

And conclude "they can't help them selves for They are merely weak earthlings genetically wired To live their lives and sin, so, will the keeper Of the pearly gates just shrug his shoulders And say?

POEM OF THE DAY; OK! Let Them in

Laughter at the Pearly Gates HOW saddened I am to hear of the passing of another one of Knotty Ash's finest.

Laughter at the Pearly Gates

The biggest triple-sided window at the corner of Oxford Street has 10 Pearly Kings and Queens-inspired Father Christmases adorned with almost 120,000 pearly buttons.

Selfridges reveals festive shop windows

There are many reasons why pearly whites might not be very pearly white.

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bright and pearly

This time around, it's one of Nintendo of America's co-founders' turn to pass through the pearly gates.

Nintendo of America co-founder passes away at 71

Herein we present a case of a male patient who was passing "pearly oval structures" that resembled a parasitic ovum.