A soft silvern voice. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Melted pure gold in silvern bowl to drain. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Melted pure gold in silvern bowl to drain, v. 66. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Sweet silvern murmurs from some deep-delled spring. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Dreams Poems] Reference
In this case where speech is silvern, silence would be golden. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 25, 1891] Reference
His voice was dry and husky, -- unlike his usual silvern tones. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
It was a silvern boar, which could not, evidently, be like the sun. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
And his heart was stirred within him as the silvern strings he grasped. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls] Reference
"In youth the hours are golden, in mature years they are silvern, in old age they are leaden.". From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
A marvellous scent rose from her silvern raiment as she moved, and beauty was wafted from her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
Mediterranean and turning the common-place walks of the hotel garden below into silvern paths of mystery. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
Sometimes a shaft of golden or silvern light blinded me or illuminated a mysterious, twisting corridor of foliage. From Wordnik.com. [The Skrayling Tree]
Manager SEDGER thinks of temporarily adopting as his motto for this theatre, "Speech is silvern, silence is golden.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 18, 1891] Reference
The full moon had just risen above a tope of tamarind trees, and its silvern radiance revealed every detail of the scene. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Destiny] Reference
Round the pavilion ran a channel of water, turning a Persian wheel317 whose buckets 318 were silvern covered with brocade. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
He bade them a mute farewell, knowing that he would miss their silvern voices, and their morning wrangling among the spruce and hemlocks. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
There was no menace in the night's silvern calmness. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English] Reference
A genealogical study has found that silvern newsman. From Wordnik.com. [Mollygood] Reference
Silence and silvern solitude till it made you dumbly shrink. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of a Cheechako] Reference
When silvern voices tune thy rills, We love thee, smiling land. From Wordnik.com. [Newfoundland] Reference
No stone nor brick was seen except in this silvern frosty color. From Wordnik.com. [The Singing Mouse Stories] Reference
Black against the silvern patch, I saw him emerge -- and look up. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil Doctor] Reference
Then his hand flew to his breast; there was a silvern gleam and. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil Doctor] Reference
"The silvern chords of the piano trembled," he objected to silvern. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship] Reference
"Let her go!" he shouted, his silvern hair streaming out grotesquely. From Wordnik.com. [The Sins of Séverac Bablon] Reference
Against the silvern light, Bristol appeared to me in black silhouette. From Wordnik.com. [The Quest of the Sacred Slipper] Reference
She hath hearkened to singing more silvern, seen raptures more bright. From Wordnik.com. [0 1411. The Night-Blooming Cereus by Harriet Monroe. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference
Then, very faintly, I seemed to detect the silvern ringing receding away through distant rooms. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil Doctor] Reference
His silvern hair flowed out, gleaming on his shoulders, as he bent forward over the driving-wheel. From Wordnik.com. [The Sins of Séverac Bablon] Reference
There was sincerity in the appeal, spoken in the softest, most silvern tone which he had ever heard. From Wordnik.com. [Brood of the Witch-Queen] Reference
"And what she would, would rather she would not so" but I fancy he never quite forgave my word silvern. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship] Reference
His hair was now silvern, but it still curled in the old places, and his gestures had apparently not aged at all. From Wordnik.com. [Clayhanger] Reference
He agreed grimly: "Yes, it's been a day," and looked over his shoulder at the quiet silvern garden, and shivered. From Wordnik.com. [The Judge] Reference
Whistler discovered her silvern beauty when he first saw her reclining by the river, beautifying that which beautifies her. From Wordnik.com. [Nights in London] Reference
The fog, through that golden month of September (September is so silvern in America), was more or less a fact of the daily weather. From Wordnik.com. [London Films] Reference
In that strange dream language, in a tongue not of East nor West, she spoke; and her silvern voice had something of the tone of those. From Wordnik.com. [Brood of the Witch-Queen] Reference
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