The colour of these black pearls is black by incident light; by rolling the pearls in a certain direction brownish coloured bands with chatoyment are shown the same as can be observed in cabochon ground Cat's eyes (quartz).

John is a man

There is a luxury in self-dispraise: / And inward self-disparagement affords / To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

My grandfather seemingly never exhausts his supply of bad jokes.