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Silvery   /sˈɪlvəri/   Listen
Silvery

adjective
1.
Resembling or reminiscent of silver.  Synonym: silvern.  "Singing in her silvery tones"
2.
Having the white lustrous sheen of silver.  Synonyms: silver, silvern.  "Repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen"
3.
Of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver.  Synonyms: argent, silver, silverish.



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"Silvery" Quotes from Famous Books



... can find you one, if you care to try it. I don't indulge myself." And Mr. Fletcher's eye went from the rose in Christie's brown hair to the silvery folds of her best gown, put on merely for the pleasure of wearing it because every one else ...
— Work: A Story of Experience • Louisa May Alcott

... a silvery stream wandering through the meadow over which the girls walked. By one pool was a shallow bit of beach, and Ruth, coming upon this ...
— Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest - Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies • Alice B. Emerson

... who sat there clad in black, with her sweet, expressive face crowned with silvery hair, had learned to write her songs in the University of Hard Knocks. She here became the song philosopher she is today. Her defeats were her victories. If Carrie Jacobs-Bond had never struggled with discouragement, sickness, poverty and loneliness, she ...
— The University of Hard Knocks • Ralph Parlette

... peaceful and still. Mother Moon, sailing high overhead, looked down upon them and smiled and smiled, flooding them with her silvery light. All day long the Merry Little Breezes of Old Mother West Wind had romped there among the asters and goldenrod. They had played tag through the cat rushes around the Smiling Pool. For very mischief they had rubbed ...
— Mother West Wind's Children • Thornton W. Burgess

... once Rob could see the surface of the water below him just barely moving in low, silvery ripples as though a faint wind touched it. A sort of metallic lustre seemed to hang above the water—the reflection from the bright scales of the many fish swimming close to the surface. Presently, as he looked into the water directly at his feet, he could ...
— The Young Alaskans • Emerson Hough


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