ADJECTIVE
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resembling or reminiscent of silver
singing in her silvery tones
a soft silvern voice -
having the white lustrous sheen of silver
a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap
repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen
How To Use silvern In A Sentence
- In the night, the sea colored, I had a split silvern mermaid tail beneath the sea blue in waves' crests and in foam. Susanne Jorn
- Her hair was a pale, silvern blond.
- Now it fortuned, by the ordinance of Destiny and fore-ordained Fate, that the King had two stallions, own brothers,551 such as the Chosroe Kings might sigh in vain to possess themselves of one of them; they were called Sábik and Láhik552 and one of them was pure silvern white while the other was black as the darksome night. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Now it fortuned, by the ordinance of Destiny and fore-ordained Fate, that the King had two stallions, own brothers,551 such as the Chosroe Kings might sigh in vain to possess themselves of one of them; they were called Sábik and Láhik552 and one of them was pure silvern white while the other was black as the darksome night. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- One of the few rational things I have met with, Eleanor, in the works of your very objectionable pet Mr. Carlyle -- though indeed his style is too intolerable to have allowed me to read much -- is the remark that 'speech is silver' -- 'silvern' he calls it, pedantically -- 'while silence is golden.' Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
- Speech is silver (or silvern), silence is golden.
- Speech is silver (or silvern), silence is golden.
- Silence is golden, but speech is silver [silvern].
- Speech is silver [silvern], (but) silence is gold [golden].
- Speech is silver [silvern], (but) silence is gold [golden].