Luckily Darnad had a precious ring on his finger and was able to convert this into pearls, which were the general currency of these parts.

Sam fought the river current to hold the big boat steady, the water broiling into red pearls.

The Lord Buddha is said to have gifted him a few of His hair and a few drops of sweat that turned into pearls (mukthaka).

She added: "I'm into pearls.

The water out of the lions' mouths turned into diamonds and pearls, and the leaping water almost touched a most beautifully-painted dome.

And it heard from a senior officer serving the Joint Chiefs of Staff who said secrecy made crucial military information into "pearls too precious to wear."

Here, Blais purées fresh oysters, freezes them with liquid nitrogen into tiny pearls and serves them on the half shell.

The first step is putting them into sweater sets and pearls.

Having delved into pearls, diamonds and amber, the museum applies its time-tested show-and-tell formula to gold.

It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls.