How To Use Silken In A Sentence

She could feel underclothes, linen drawers, silken chemise, a farthingale with its stiffened hoops. Ill Met By Moonlight
Then he repaired to a blacksmith, after stripping her and her damsels of their silken apparel and clothing them in raiment of hair-cloth, and bade him make three pairs of iron shackles. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
While rodents often succeed in opening cocoons and extracting the nutritious pupae, birds rarely invest the time and effort needed to pierce the silken armor.
Suddenly, on the gravelled path, unhurrying, cool, luxuriant, Mme. Swann appeared, displaying around her a toilet which was never twice the same, but which I remember as being typically mauve; then she hoisted and unfurled at the end of its long stalk, just at the moment when her radiance was most complete, the silken banner of a wide parasol of a shade that matched the showering petals of her gown. Within a Budding Grove
The result is a vodka with silken, subtle flavors that, unlike most, can be served at room temperature rather than chilled and can be drunk as a digestive as well as in a martini or a mixer.

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But Kirsteen, quite unused to beautiful manufactured things, admired them all, and found a pleasure in heaping together and contrasting with each other the soft silken stuffs, many of them with a sheen of two blended colours called "shot" in those days. Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
He was the son of Silken Thomas and as a result of being educated in Italy he came to be recognised as a dabbler in the occult arts.
His soft brown strands of silken hair shine in the fading sunlight, gently sweeping into his eyes and over the planes of his face.
The moment you enter the gates you're swallowed up in a labyrinth of latticed houses where tailors embroider silken hangings and silversmiths work on glittering jewellery.
On their heads, they wore white knitted skullcaps, silken headscarves or baseball caps.
His head flashed up, huge jaws distended, fangs gleaming, to sink into the slender, silken-hosed ankle above the tan low-cut shoes. CHAPTER XXVII
His silken hide of blood brown hue gleamed as he moved, muscles rippling beneath the sleek pelt.
While he was thus dangled in a state of suspension, a German trooper was transiently smit with the charms of his mother, who listened to his honourable addresses, and once more received the silken bonds of matrimony; the ceremony having been performed as usual at the drum-head. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
Slowly, I bent my neck and softly kissed the side of her head, letting my mouth brush against her silken hair.
She wore a flowing pale yellow skirt with ruffles and a silken blouse with puffed sleeves.
From what cursed old antediluvian, who lived before the invention of spinning-jennies, she learned this craft, Heaven only knows; but there she sits, with her work pinned to her knee — not the pretty taper silken fabric, with which Saint Ronan's Well
Under her silken sarong would have been an inner garment of white cotton, about her waist a zone of beaded cloth held in front by an oval plate, and over all would have been thrown a long, loose dressing-gown, called the kabaya, falling to her knees and fastened down the front to the silver girdle with golden brooches. Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines
The princess in the fairy story had long silken hair.
Moreover, her hands are better than gold and silver; for she maketh silken curtains and selleth them for fifty gold pieces each; and it taketh her but eight days to make a curtain. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
When the Lady had changed into a rose colored silken night gown with a albino fur overcoat, she slipped into her heavy blankets, and counted the days until she was to be entered into a marriage she did not wish to be a part [apart] of.
This was instant Best Dish material, but there was also the knock - out tortelli: silken, fleshy, eggy squares filled with sweet pumpkin, anointed with an unctuous garlic, sage and pistachio butter and dusted with Parmesan.
He wore all black by way of a silken shirt, leather pants and combat boots.
I had not to trudge these dusty roads on foot with a broken-down good-for-nothing scatterling; I trod rich carpets, and slept under silken curtains. What Will He Do with It? — Complete
Garbed was she in silken raiment of tenderest green, wrought upon with some quaint workmanship of gold and silver. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
His dark eyer were full of intelligence, and fringed with long silken lashes. Virgie's Inheritance
Presently, one of her maids brought her a silken bag, which she opened and taking thereout a lute, laid it in her lap and smote its strings, whereat it complained as child complaineth to mother, and she sang these two couplets, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
A fascinating mix of braids, tassels, chenilles and decorative trimmings in delicate silken yarn complements the entire package.
Her dark hair should have been twined in a missish braid to keep it from tangling as she slept, and instead it spilled in dark silken handfuls over her shoulders.
He wore some kind of big baggy silken shirt with long sleeves that almost stretched down to the tips of his fingers.
The silken singsong voice, the candelabrum, the welded dimples and fluty presence, the references to his sainted mother Frances, all made him a figure of fun - the Gorgeous George of mid-cult music.
In the meantime Dame Elspeth assisted to disembarrass the damsel whom she destined for her future daughter-inlaw, of her hood, mantle, and the rest of her riding gear, giving her to appear as beseemed the buxom daughter of the wealthy Miller, gay and goodly, in a white kirtle, the seams of which were embroidered with green silken lace or fringe, entwined with some silver thread. The Monastery
I found her lying on a silken divan in the deserted house, her hands clasped over a little white flower like an odontoglossum, which lay on her breast. Fire-Tongue
Deep pink lotus flowers seemed to hover above a silken surface. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
Despite her electoral rout, the masses, seduced by her silken eloquence into believing that Dr Karunanidhi and his men had been witch hunting her, stood solidly behind her.
As larvae feed, they spin silken threads, trapping the dying florets and their frass, giving the sunflower head a trashy appearance.
The common wolf spider has no web, but the female is a gentle parent who encases her eggs in a silken bundle which she carries wherever she goes.
The sand's texture is silken soft, yet thick. Times, Sunday Times
Deep pink lotus flowers seemed to hover above a silken surface. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
The next morning Rastignac woke late and stayed in bed, giving himself up to one of those matutinal reveries in the course of which a young man glides like a sylph under many a silken, or cashmere, or cotton drapery. Study of a Woman
He recalled the intoxicating sweetness of her eyes, her fair hair, the delicate silken tissue of the skin, beneath which it almost seemed to him that he could see the blood coursing; the tones of her voice still exerted a spell over him; he had forgotten nothing; his walk perhaps heated his imagination by sending a glow of warmth through his veins. Father Goriot
Wetter areas are home to the silken surfaces of green-veined whites, while some heathlands host the dazzling green hairstreak. Are butterflies the UK's most beautiful endangered species? | Dan Flenley
But her hair, though oily from lack of care, was soft and silken.
On their heads, they wore white knitted skullcaps, silken headscarves or baseball caps.
< 33.5 > i.e. the lady gathers the flowers, and binds them in her hair with a silken fillet, making of them a kind of chaplet or crown. The Lucasta Poems
Glick moved toward her and placed a gentle, silken kiss on the soft down of her cheek.
They simply spin a silken sling to attach themselves to a twig.
Beneath her lightweight silken sandals, the grass felt light and springy.
Maybe about how it takes the spinner's motivations and turns the fiber into either trash or treasure: greed spinning silk into rusty wire slubbed with rotten straw, laziness spinning wool into a beautiful but useless cobweb thread that disintigrates when touched, vengefulness turning flax into coarse rope no matter how delicately spun, love turning nettles into the smoothest silken cord, selflessness making the spinner's own hair into the finest silver-wrapped silk. Spinning with glass.
Long sheets of silken hair fell down one side of the woman's head, the other half tucked behind her ear to reveal her face.
Truth, and they sought for it with such instance, and they so highly valued it that the high priests of the Greeks used to send it to all the countries of the Christians in silken wraps after mixing it with musk and ambergris. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
He remembered the soft sounds she had made and the silken feeling of her hair.
Natural dispersal occurs when newly hatched larvae hanging from host trees on silken threads are carried by the wind for a distance of up to about 1 mile, although most go less than 50 meters. CapeCodToday Blog Chowder
Godwin found silken threat less easy to simulate than Aubrey did. THE LAST RAVEN
In 1983 stay-up's appeared in beautiful designs: matt, opaque, shimmering, transparent, semi-opaque, fine-meshed, woolen and silken.
A fascinating mix of braids, tassels, chenilles and decorative trimmings in delicate silken yarn complements the entire package.
On the islet appeared a beautiful woman, clad in a watchet-coloured silken mantle, bound with a broad girdle inscribed with characters like the phylacteries of the Hebrews. Kenilworth
Nicodemus is dressed in layered robes of dark reds which cross his chest, around his neck is a silver silken scarf lined with arcane writings. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » CarsonArtist’s Review Forum
Ash-blonde hair hung in a straight silken curtain to the level of her chin and her long, almond-shaped eyes were sea-green. THE GOSPEL MAKERS
The astrologer was a little man, and seemed much advanced in age, for his heard was long and white, and reached over his black doublet down to his silken girdle. Kenilworth
Above me I could see the colorful silken envelopes, ballooning and buoyed upward by the hot air of the hundred fires that were continually stoked by the slaves of the formidable skyship.
That night I sat in bed, cloaked in a pure white silken nightgown and sitting upon the layers of bedspreads which made a soft cushion for me.
The room is one they talked about but never saw, a room they would have liked to live in one day, with a sunken pool, a silken tent draped from the ceiling-a De Mille set really, slender and oiled girls in attendance, a suggestion of midday light coming through from overhead, Scorpia sprawled among fat pillows wearing exactly the corselette of Belgian lace, the dark stockings and shoes he daydreamed about often enough but never - Gravity's Rainbow
But as you reclothe yourselves in the silken treasures of a revitalized Earth, of an Eden reborn, the Memories will reactivate. Songs of the Arcturians
Allen furled the large handkerchief into a silken rope.
Her silken long hair attracted the attention of a photographer.
A familiar Rossini overture (The Silken Ladder) presented that composer's usual challenges, which were tackled with precision.
At last it really seems tired of eating, and after it has cast its skin four times, the fifth one becomes thick and hard, and the caterpillar hangs itself by a fine silken thread of its own spinning to a twig, and passes into its second stage -- that of the "pupa," or chrysalis, from which it will awaken, a thing of life and beauty, to live in the air instead of crawling. Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation
His name rolled off her silken tongue and made his heart grin. Much Ado About Marriage
He wore some kind of big baggy silken shirt with long sleeves that almost stretched down to the tips of his fingers.
In mid pavilion was a fountain adorned with all manner of figures; 500 and by its side stood a table covered with a silken napkin, and on its edge a great porcelain bottle full of wine, with a cup of crystal inlaid with gold. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The floor is absolutely covered with all shapes and sizes of silken pillows embroidered with comforting symbols in gold thread.
She was dressed in a long sleeved black shirt and a silken skirt that had a red dragon on it.
The physician himself hastened to the clothes-press, and, taking the silken dressing-gown from it, carried it to the patient. Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
As he played Chopin's D flat Nocturne, its simple song and silken dissonances sounding in the ghostly gloom of the Turbine Hall, no one stirred. Daniel Barenboim - review
There the glancing foliage obscures heaven, as the silken texture of a veil a woman's lovely features: beneath such fretwork we may indulge in light-hearted thoughts; or, if sadder meditations lead us to seek darker shades, we may pass the cascade towards the large groves of pine, with their vast undergrowth of laurel, reaching up to the Belvidere; or, on the opposite side of the water, sit under the shadow of the silver-stemmed birch, or beneath the leafy pavilions of those fine old beeches, whose high fantastic roots seem formed in nature's sport; and the near jungle of sweet-smelling myrica leaves no sense unvisited by pleasant ministration. The Mourner
She was wearing a sleeveless short silken white night gown and tapping her bare feet on the carpeted floors of the room.
She wears her usual style of clothes, a light grey silken blouse, and the tightly fitting black pants.
In that light the figure seated in a silver, throne-like chair before him seemed unreal and fantastic, with an illusiveness of outline that was heightened by a filmy silken robe. The Bloody Crown of Conan
Come, now, isn't it something worth living for to have one's coat and hat taken by one of this knot of magnificent crimson-velvet-coated, gold-beplastered, silken-calved beings who are ranged along the sides of the vestibule? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
Eyes closed, head lilted right back so her long silken hair swung in a rip - pling swathe over his arm as he grimly tore through every veil of rejection she had dared to pull on against him. The Bellini Bride
Also impressive are the portraits of well-fed burghers, such as the 1643 half-length figure of Paulus Verschuur, confident in his stylish hat, crisp collar and voluminous suit; a bare hand, gloves, sheer cuffs, a silken sash, curling hair and alert features are teased into existence with assured, staccato brushstrokes. Picture-Perfect Rogues' Gallery
But this girl was actually very quiet, lying like a caressable, silken little urt in the chest. Magicians of Gor
The naked vulture neck with its pouch-like appendage of brick-red hue; the silken feathers of bluish white under the tail -- those precious plumes well-known and worn by the ladies of many lands under the appellation of _marabout feathers_ -- all were recognised at a glance. The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters"
Veronica was bathed in a paper-thin silken gown that seemed to glow in the room's light, as did her golden hair.
She rose, loose and easy in her dark Rover clothing, decorative bright scarves and sashes wrapped about her waist and shoulders, the ends trailing down in silken streamers, her long red hair shim - mering in the lamplight. Ilse Witch
Behind its silken ropes, normal niceties don't apply. Times, Sunday Times
Its double tints and strange changefulness, and the smooth creamy cheeks with their moving islets of roses that would come and go at a word, were pretty protests of Nature, I used to think, against the demure tints of her pearl-gray silken gown. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876
And as it was our first appearance at church since -- well, _since_ -- perhaps there was just a little consciousness of our relations that made Bessie seem to retire absolutely within herself, and be no more a part of the silken crowd than was the grave, plain man who rose up in the pulpit. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
With her nicely poised head, her silken arms, and expressive upper back, she brought a personal glow to the production, although Nilas Martins as Siegfried did not offer her much solicitude.
Not even the prospect of a hernia operation could limit Brian Kelly's silken style as he led the ‘return’ of Palatine after a walloping by Eire Og in their initial championship outing.
Make sure you use the firm kind of tofu for this recipe, not the softer, silken tofu. Times, Sunday Times
One is described as a hemispherical cup of interwoven fibres covered with skeleton leaves, slung by silken threads to the under surface of a large leaf. Last Leaves from Dunk Island
Along the soft, silken petal of one of those flowers crawled a beetle.
On the teocalli Santiago stood like a statue of black basalt, facing the east, dagger held high -- a wild and terrible sight, naked as he was save for a wide silken girdle and that inhuman mask on his face. The Moon of Skulls
Long silken stockings ran from his knees into his tiny little shoes with silver buckles.
We are never too old to admire a pretty favor or a tasteful _bonbonniere_; and, looking back over the season, we remember, as among the most charming of the favors, those with flowers painted upon silken banners, with the owner's name intertwined. Manners and Social Usages
A beautifully silken red umbrella angled itself towards the edge of the cliff, mimicking the cliff's shape, as the tangible wind itself blustered its way around it. Clock
Mixed colors of purple and blue tarnished the silken kimono that seemed exquisite and luxurious beyond comprehension.
The other hand caught up before her the long skirts of a pretty robe-de-chambre, beneath whose edge a hand's-breadth of white silk shimmered and the toe of a silken mule was visible. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama
Even now, when I saw the kids in their faux fur-lined coats and pompom topped hats, I could remember the way Rob had knelt to the sidewalk, had so delicately touched one of the young girl's silken braids.
Close to the strong stem, dangled oranges and rosy-cheeked apples; the sugar-plums were contained in silken bags, made in the shape of flour-sacks, and tied at the neck with a gilt string. A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters
But then like the Illyrian merchant who sees the Adriatic's silken skin wrinkle at the first touch of the bora, I suddenly feel uneasy. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
She wore a flowing pale yellow skirt with ruffles and a silken blouse with puffed sleeves.
Then the Governor’s wife arose and stripped her of her jewels and silken raiment and, clothing her in petticoat-trousers of sack-cloth and a shift of hair-cloth, sent her down into the kitchen and made her a scullery-wench, saying, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
It'so happened that the parlor door was partly of glass, shaded a silken curtain.
He and colleagues studied several other spider species and so far have found tarantulas to be the only species that use silken secretions from their feet.
A plain silken stole embroidered only with a cross, but in gold, and a maniple to match. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
There was a rending, tearing sound as of some silken fabric being parted biaswise of its fibres, and Mr. Leary's droll after sections vanished inside; and practically coincidentally therewith, Mr. Leary descended upon the rugged floor with a thump which any other time would have stunned him into temporary helplessness, but which now had the effect merely of stimulating him onward to fresh exertion. The Life of the Party
The floor was very stony, and her feet, covered only in silken slippers, began to get sore and she could feel a blister began to rise.
It was silky, silken, a wonderful silk that veneered and flossed the softly moving, wavy water. CHAPTER XXVIII
Sahim in silken robes of honour gold inwoven and set on The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Ash-blonde hair hung in a straight silken curtain to the level of her chin and her long, almond-shaped eyes were sea-green. THE GOSPEL MAKERS
Thus objurgated, Yasmela allowed the girl to garb her in the light sleeveless silk shirt, over which was slipped a silken tunic, bound at the waist by a wide velvet girdle. The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian
In general, however, use soft tofu, such as aseptic-packed silken styles, when you want a smooth, creamy texture but don't need the substance to hold its shape.
Her gown cuts down so low behind her he can slip his hand beneath the silken material to cradle the soft swell of her buttocks.
Although other species can be "silked", the Golden Orb's silken threads are beyond compare. The gossamer cape: spun by a million spiders
He is now between 60 and 70 years old, with silver silken hair neatly arranged on a fine intelligent head.
Too many gorgeous stripped athletes had he seen slouched into conventional garmenting, to expect too much of the marvelous creature in the white silken swimming suit when it should appear garbed as civilized women garb. CHAPTER X
Delicately I untied the ribbon that bound his hair and unplaited the silken locks, running my fingers through their length.
She had long, soft layers of silken chestnut hair that draped over her slender shoulders and cascaded down to the base of her back.
On the other end of the arbor is a grooved pulley, over which passes a silken cord, which also passes round a delicate band-wheel, I, below, and by which, motion is communicated to the arbor and sounding wheel. Scientific American magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1 The advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements
On the islet appeared a beautiful woman, clad in a watchet-coloured silken mantle, bound with a broad girdle, inscribed with characters like the phylacteries of the Hebrews. From John O'Groats to Land's End
The cover shows a soldier's combat helmet side-by-side with a diplomat's silken top hat.
A wave, higher than any they yet had had to ride, came boiling down upon them ... and twisting, writhing, upcasting imploring arms to the elements -- the implacable elements -- a girl, a dark girl, entwined, imprisoned in silken garments, swept upon its crest! The Yellow Claw
Just a little woozy… sane enough, but of course, to spit out the entire chemistry of the substance that fettered us with its silken strands.
The gown shone with a gleam of a thin layer of silken silver fabric that covered the light blue.
Here are paintings by the old masters and the new; rare furniture and marbles from Italian palaces; screens from Japan; jewels and rugs from the Orient; silk stockings, curios, china, bronzes, hats, furs; and again more curios, cabinets, statues, paintings; things rare and beautiful and exotic from every quarter of the globe, "from silken Samarcand to cedared Lebanon. Penguin Persons & Peppermints
The supple south-sojourner, silken of smile and lazy of gesture, waits, and does his work from behind, when no man looketh, gracefully and without offence. CHAPTER 20
Then, after attaining elevation, they launch themselves into space, rappelling down a silken thread of their own making.
Alaska was always smiling with spontaneous gestures, had silken hair, soft, wrinkle free, natural skin that was most alluring.
Despite an insulating jacket of leather over his three layers of silken robes, he was still shivering.
A silken blue cloth covered the old wooden table underneath.
When the cooper got back to the city, he had the tale of his adventure embroidered on a silken tunicle, which remains today under glass at the Church of St. Leodegar in Lucerne. Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3
And yet he was conscious of some formless programme forming mistily in his mind -- a programme that did not include the berouged, be-powdered, plump, and silken Miss Bauers. Gigolo
Like other girls in Oria Province ' s Society, she thrills at the chance to put aside her " plainclothes " for one evening and don a silken gown borrowed from the clothing- distribution center. In a Dystopian Romance, a Rebel Heart Stirs
Make sure you use the firm kind of tofu for this recipe, not the softer, silken tofu. Times, Sunday Times
Long, thin strands cascaded down her fine shoulders like silken laces of thread.
Davy Jones they did salute the raising of the neat little burgee that had a silver fox fashioned in silken hand-work upon it. The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island or Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers
Little's silken wild mushroom ravioli reeked wonderfully of ceps - Antonio Carluccio would heartily approve.
Even silken tofu wasn't soft enough for me to want to have it uncooked.
Soft or silken tofu can be used for dips, spreads, sauces and sweet dishes.
Whistletrigger turns up his patrician nose at all "pessimists" and broadly intimates that the man who hasn't a new silk cady, seventeen pair o 'tailor-made "pants," a silken nightshirt and sufficient provender in his pantry to run a Methodist camp-meeting for a month, would starve to death in a Paradise whose springs run Pomery Sec, and whose trees grew pumpkin pies, hot weinerwurst and pate de foie gras. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
The human is a pretty blonde one, in adequate physical health and possessing long, soft, silken hair the color of sunlight.
His well-knit body was, except for matching shoes and the ubiquitous silken sporran, otherwise uncovered. Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
Thus objurgated, Yasmela allowed the girl to garb her in the light, sleeveless silk shirt, over which was slipped a silken tunic, bound at the waist by a wide velvet girdle. Conan the Freebooter
We know the versatility of the unsubstantial species to which you belong permits them to assume all manner of disguises; we have seen them apparelled in the caftan of a Persian, and the silken robe of a Chinese, The Monastery
Yes ... 'twould be about ten years since she'd dropped Cumming's acquaintance abruptly, and my lurid imagination could conjure up the scene in some silken nest of sin around South Audley Street, circa 1880, Cumming all moustachioed and masterful in his long combinations and my adulterous angel bursting proudly out of her corset as they slanged each other across the crumpled sheets of shame. Watershed
Sahim in silken robes of honour gold inwoven and set on The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
He took it into his head at one time that he ought to be married, and having got the consent of a haverel wench to yoke with him in the silken bonds of matrimony, went to the minister several times, and asked him to perform the ceremony. Spare Hours
Soft or silken tofu can be used for dips, spreads, sauces and sweet dishes.
Mrs. McFee, emerging from the supper-room where all was in readiness, caught one flash of the blazing, questing eyes through the silken mask - slits, and received a start. THE SCORN OF WOMEN
All the plate was of heavy gold and the table cloths were silken, perfumed sheets hung heavy with gold embroidery.
In a chamber whose dome was of gold-filagreed ivory, King Akhirom, clad in a white silken robe that made him look even more ghostly, sat cross-legged on a couch of gemmed ivory and stared at Rufia kneeling before him. Conan the Freebooter
He was wearing a white military suit with a blue silken cape and a pair of epaulets on his shoulders.
The blood stained the silken cloth as he applied pressure to the wound.
His grandson, William Rivers, was one of the four Earls who carried the silken canopy at the second coronation of King Richard I, after his return from Palestine. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
Just beyond the good "sister" stood a young man, poring over a piece of paper, which had the appearance of a medical prescription: a spirited-looking youth, whose harmonious and intellectual cast of features was heightened to rare beauty by richly mellow coloring, and the silken curves of a beard and moustache unprofaned by a razor, -- curves softly traced above the fresh, rubious lips, and gracefully deepening about the cheeks and chin, -- curves that disappear forever when the civilized barbarism of shaving has been accepted. Fairy Fingers A Novel
The actor delivered his speech in a silken voice.
Second has resentment, use a peaceful silken robe to armour, after borrowing, also avoid meeting.
The gondolier is a picturesque rascal for all he wears no satin harness, no plumed bonnet, no silken tights. The Innocents Abroad
The princess in the fairy story had long silken hair.
The grass spider, though, hides at the edge of its sprawling web, lurking inside a silken cave: the hole at the bottom of the funnel.
The figure's thick, apparently woolen clothing offers a striking contrast to the fine, silken garments of the Virgin in the Nativity scene.
He felt silken strands of her hair touch his fingertips, and thus, he instinctively brushed them away from her face.
The long, silken switch of hair was cut carefully into four or five shorter sections.
Beside her, Lord Avon mumbled in his sleep and turned over with a soft rustle of the silken sheets.
Godwin found silken threat less easy to simulate than Aubrey did. THE LAST RAVEN
The worn clothing had been replaced by silken robes that flickered with red, orange, and yellow light.
But he studied the young man with the dark complexion, noble aquilline nose, jet-black silken hair and deep, serious brown eyes, and knew he was telling the truth.
Though she was well into middle age, her body was still erect and firm, beautiful in her silken nightrobe. Conan and the Emerald Lotus
My attentions returned to the girl walking up to the podium, bedecked in a slender pale white gown, filmy silken skirts fluttering to her white slippered feet.
As larvae feed, they spin silken threads, trapping the dying florets and their frass, giving the sunflower head a trashy appearance.
If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists above shining trees, -- if I in my north room dance naked, grotesquely before my mirror waving my shirt round my head and singing softly to myself Angst Envy
I pictured the streets of Quebec alive with people: the young seigneur set off with furs and silken sash and sword or pistols; the long-haired, black-eyed woodsman in his embroidered moccasins and leggings with flying thrums; the peasant farmer slapping his hands cheerfully in the lighted market-place; the petty noble, with his demoiselle, hovering in the precincts of the Chateau St. Louis and the intendance. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
They simply spin a silken sling to attach themselves to a twig.
She wrapped her tree in silken lies, spun promise-dreams of innocence, beguiling the fetid flies that were the souls of her progeny generations upon generations gone. DREAMING LIES TO CHANGE THE TRUTH • by Kaolin Fire
Inside, my gaze roved over the leather couches, the silken pillows sprawled carelessly all over the place.
To each man he gave embroidered, many-coloured silken fabrics and utensils.
They didn't take, for as Mr. Stewart asks: "What man with a beard could say such finespun silken terms without cursing afterwards to clear his mouth? A Long Way From Dullsville
She sighed and smoothed the silken band about a pale yellow hat.
He plunged in, time after time, to fetch out my in-thrown stick, with a frisky bound; emerging after the performance with ice-pendants to his glossy, silken ears and coat smartly curled, as if he had just paid a visit to Truefitt's, and been manipulated by the dexterous hands of one of the assistants at that celebrated establishment, armed with the crinal tongs and anybody's best macassar. She and I, Volume 1
Being accompanied by the span-new silken affair with the golden head, which, as I have narrated _supra_, I was so lucky to obtain promiscuously after witnessing the Adelphi of the Westminster college boys, I naturally protested vehemently against such arbitrary and tyrannical regulations, urging the risk of my unprotected umbrella being feloniously abducted during unavoidable absence by some unprincipled and illegitimate claimant. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
I used low-fat silken tofu, too, so I felt super unguilty eating it! Baked Vegan Cheesecake | Baking Bites
The ripples of their hair, drawn back from the broad brown brows and knotted in silken abundance at the nape, glitter like polished jet, and the fine, haughty, dark features lit with little points of gold – tiny studs set in the high nostrils and the upper rims of the little ears. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
The spike of a helmet projected from the middle of his silken turban and he wore a shirt of chain mail.
The silken thread tying her to home had parted, and there was no turning back.
His long silken hair fell around his face and shoulders and contrasted with the white of his skin and his shirt.
Sudden fluorescence illuminated a clan of silken Siamese fighting fish. MAMBO
I closed my mouth and studied the silken catenaries. Blue Screen of Death and the Spiders of Mayhem
Their immaculate socks with the separate great toes make no noise; nothing is heard, as they glide by, but a 'froufrou' of silken stuffs. The French Immortals Series — Complete
Godwin found silken threat less easy to simulate than Aubrey did. THE LAST RAVEN
The maid handed Larken a long silken gown of sky blue.
But I must not anticipate -- a beautiful veil of brown tissue, none of your woolleny, gruff fabrics, fit only for penance, but a silken gossamery cloud, soft as a baby's check. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
silken eyelashes
He wore all black by way of a silken shirt, leather pants and combat boots.
Standing at the top of the hill, just to the side of the open chain-link gate was a thin, petite female wearing various, silken veils that blew in the wind.
He was beginning to be a very pretty baby; his golden hair curled in silken ringlets all over his little round head and his eyes were beautiful. Rilla of Ingleside
The thin silken tissue they create using their fore legs forms a shield that protects them from predators such as ants and geckos and enables them to forage for food in relative safety.
I drew the silken crochet to my face, the velvet softness against my cheek.
The combination of our whole leaf blends, open weave fabric, and unique hand-crafted silken pyramidal infuse come together as never before to brew an extraordinary cup of tea.

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