How To Use Silvery In A Sentence
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Its body has a good deal the shape of the pike; but it is protected by scales of a silvery gray colour and so strong that a dagger could not pierce them.
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Cult mezzo Magdalena Kozena and silvery soprano Carolyn Sampson sound gorgeous, but are on the cool side as Paris and Cupid respectively.
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The year was ushered in by starlit skies, a bright silvery moon and biting cold.
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Brown pelicans dive into glistening sapphire waves to grab tiny silvery fish that jump from the water then fall back with a soft plop.
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They are green and white, and they carry their national symbol, the star and crescent, silvery bright and shiny.
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They were round, the size of a tangerine, and had apparently fallen from a large tree with a silvery bole.
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She was a wisp of a woman, barely taller than my shoulders, with silvery hair and deep blue eyes.
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Skirt a purple artichoke with a ruff of silvery artemisia, or mix some ruby-stemmed, fat-leafed rhubarb into a garden bed and you're creating combinations as artful as any in the most ornamental of borders.
Valerie Easton: Are Your Vegetables Multi-Tasking??
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Nickel is a silvery white metal and is both ductile and malleable.
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Sodium is a silvery white metal with a waxy appearance.
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At one of the lectures he held from Thursday through Monday in Delhi— immaculately dressed, and with a mane of silvery white cerebral frizzle on his head— he held forth on subjects like State of the Lie, Lie of the State.
Heehs' white man's burden
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The men can be silvery-haired and fatherly and the women are identikit babes.
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Those produced in brass, anodized aluminum or galvanized iron impart a golden glow or a silvery shiver.
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The tender centaureas are valued for summer bedding on account of their pure silvery or bluish tinted white foliage.
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I imagined how this very township must have looked - that silent starlit night when the three Wise Men plodded along the silvery sands to greet the birth of a new born baby.
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They were linked by a slack, heavy, silvery chain that swayed lazily when he raised his hands.
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I made out an elderly lady, propped up, silvery hair rippling across her shoulders.
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He felt the familiar glow rise once more in his stomach at the sound of the silvery laughter.
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Although terns are closely related to seagulls, sharing a general black-and-grey pattern of plumage with their cousins, they have slim silvery bodies and deeply forked tails.
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Roach a small fish of the cyprinoid family, has a generally silvery appearance with the back dull green and the lower fins red.
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It was silvery white, of unsoiled reed flaxen silk.
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It looks to me through the hydroscope, at this distance, exactly like a tiny, silvery minnow.
Police!!!
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There is a thin coating of make-up on her face and her silvery hair is delicately cut.
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As the cripple sat looking over the solemn, moaning ocean, awed by its brooding gloom, did he catch in the silvery starlight a second glimpse of the rose-colored veils, and snowy vittae, and purple - edged robes of the Parcae, spinning and singing as they followed the ship across the sobbing sea?
St. Elmo
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A lowery sky, and from it flecks of silvery light dropping lightly, like mirrored feathers.
EVERVILLE
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She now had her own elven bow that Tré had carved for her, and the silvery green, wooden arrows were fletched with owl feathers, and flew true.
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She was dressed in clothes of silvery grey, a full shirt, belted at the waist, a pair of doeskin trousers, and boots of the same.
A TIME OF WAR
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Each one has its silvery gray live-oak lintel, still supporting the column of lovely pink brick.
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I put blobs of colour here and there: this bit goldy, that bit ash and silvery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sage leaves have a silvery cast.
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We headed back, stopping to watch the area's famous pink flamingos in the silvery moonlight.
Times, Sunday Times
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He threw his head forward so a wave of silvery hair covered his sorrowful face.
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The voice penetrated my deep cloud of sleep, a silvery bolt of lightning flashing through the underwater dream-currents.
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What was once an empty backdrop of a starry sky was filled with a bright, silvery object.
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In the international pearl market, the demand is for large-sized coloured pearls of black, silvery green and green to deep purple hues.
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The cool elegance of the shapes, such as stemmed goblets, is matched by the smooth silvery-grey burnished surfaces.
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Atop the huge craft were, here and there, clusters of brassy and silvery machinery, like boilers and furnaces, with shiny chimneys that belched no smoke, but seemed only to vent a thin steam.
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Aspens and cottonwoods turn from green to gold, meadows are dotted with milkweed pods spilling their silvery strands, and a peaceful splendor invites you to relax.
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This results in the leaves taking on a silvery appearance and, more importantly, an extensive dying back of the affected branches and a reduction in fruit production.
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Katherine laughed, her silvery laugh echoing in the silent night.
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Soon we were above ground in a silvery twelve-seater custom van, my seatmate fiddling with a loaded ashtray, fine gray dust sprinkling his shiny black tasseled loafers.
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These are smooth, with a slight silvery sheen on the grooved upper surface, sculptured with raised veins on the convex lower surface, and with a few crenations on the margins.
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THOR: I wash it fortnightly in the sacred waters of the Rhinemaidens, then comb it straight by the light of a silvery moon.
Robert Brenner: A Thor Subject
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The adult insect is a moth with silvery-white forewings and brown stripes and black markings on each wing tip.
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At first I scarcely noticed them, supposing them to be vast beds of silvery bottom sand glittering under the electric pencil of the hydroscope.
Police!!!
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We walk a boardwalk in the Point of Rocks area to King's Pool, where we watch the silvery blue pupfish dart about like liquid lightening.
Richard Bangs: Death Valley Daze, Part II
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When he came out of it, he held a short, slender wand of a light silvery color.
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He was seeing a head of rich chestnut hair marked by a flash of silvery grey.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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The adult insect is a moth with silvery-white forewings and brown stripes and black markings on each wing tip.
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His silvery hair was unkempt, blood and bruises marred his slender body and he was skinnier than when he had come in.
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This plant has sprawling stems of tightly packed silvery leaves and white flowers that make it ideal for growing over the edge of containers.
Times, Sunday Times
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In early designs bullet jackets were made of cupro-nickel and these have a silvery appearance.
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They reminded me of bees and flies, and sometimes with a strong light on them they were like those small polished black and silvery-white beetles (Gyrinus) which we see in companies on the surface of pools and streams, perpetually gliding and whirling about in a sort of complicated dance.
Afoot in England
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This condition is characterized by thick, red plaque with a white, silvery micaceous scale on top.
Simple Skin Beauty
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Silvery fish with scales like pearls and translucent blue fins like moonlight swam through the clear, cold water, hiding underneath duckweed and water-flowers floating above the pond's surface.
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His facial appearance was fair, with the placid blue eyes and short silvery hair.
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Wearing black trousers and a grey polo shirt, he is still handsome with shoulder-length silvery hair and a twinkle in the eye.
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When wet, the basalt changes colour from silvery grey to gleaming black.
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The silvery globe of the moon hung in the sky.
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Head, thorax, and legs black; the two former closely punctured and thinly covered with short cinereous pubescence; the metathorax with the punctures running into transverse striæ in the middle; the sides of the thorax and the legs with a fine silky silvery-white pile; the tibiæ and tarsi strongly spinose; wings fusco-hyaline; abdomen entirely red, smooth and shining.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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In the pool she could see little silvery fish darting around.
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Thorax: the metathorax finely transversely rugose, the sides with bright silvery-white pubescence; the coxæ, the thorax beneath and on the sides, with fine silky sericeous pile; the anterior tibiæ and tarsi, and all the femora at their apex beneath, ferruginous; wings hyaline and iridescent, nervures black; the outer margin of the tegulæ testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The one thing they all had in common - aside from the black-tie dress - was a love for the unique artist with the shock of silvery hair.
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Some lepidopterists believe that the Xerces Blue was the same species as Silvery Blue.
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The silvery globe of the moon sank towards the horizon.
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High rocky cliffs pitted with little sandy coves melt away into long stretches of silvery beach.
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Down the silvery cascade he glided and whirled away through the running water, frightening the minnows and miller's thumbs lying among the stones in the shallow places, and startling the crawfishes and little fresh water lobsters hidden under the hollow banks.
The Magic Soap Bubble
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Awash in that destroying beam, Gerrard's sword wilted and fell to the ground in a silvery puddle.
Mercadian Masques
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She had a sweet, low voice, "that most excellent thing in woman;" while her light, silvery laughter rippled forth ever and anon, like a chime of well-tuned bells, enchaining me as would chords of Offenbach's champagne music.
She and I, Volume 1
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Abruptly, the creature's wild silvery eyes snapped open, and a guttural screech echoed from its throat, as it spread is massive feathered wings and stood.
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It's a silvery world of mauves, soft greens and occasional outbursts of clear colour.
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A lattice of thin white strands flashed dimly on the oak, forming a binding, blinking silvery spiderweb.
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Stachys byzantina is a herbaceous perennial grown mainly for its soft, hairy silvery-green leaves, which often remain evergreen.
Times, Sunday Times
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Onward it came across the moonlit strip of grassy plain and the soft light falling upon it revealed a plump body clothed in a coat of black fur with white stripes while above, like a silvery halo, waved a bushy, plume-like tail.
The Black Phantom
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A beam of silvery light was shining through the old windows, the moss already creeping up and encircling them in emerald tendrils.
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He was a 40-year-old man with silvery hair, small eyes, a small nose, a large mouth and faint wrinkles.
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However, it was a pretty picture the nuthatch made, holding in her bill a large beetle with silvery wings, sometimes holding it straight out from the bark as she glanced around to see whether the coast was clear and at the same time calling her nasal "yank," so full of woodsy suggestion.
Our Bird Comrades
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By adding copper to the silver, the mediaeval craftsmen were hardening and lowering the melting point of silver, although it still remained silvery in colour.
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The river birch trees spread their silvery shade over the slate walkways.
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In early summer, the silvery foliage of snow-in-summer is smothered with white blossoms.
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On a clear day, the snow-capped range of the Atlas Mountains hangs above Marrakesh like some silvery curtain.
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The oculus windows depicted in each of their two cells illuminate the figures with an otherworldly silvery light.
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Enjoy the silvery catkins in full sun or dappled shade.
Times, Sunday Times
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The flowers are arranged in a silvery, cylindrical, branching structure, called a panicle, up to 11 inches long and 1.5 inches wide.
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In the international pearl market, the demand is for large-sized coloured pearls of black, silvery green and green to deep purple hues.
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A silvery-white figure approached her, its edges blurred and its features undistinguishable.
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Of course I am!" cried Meg, smoothing the silvery folds of her first sild dress, for Mr. Laurence had insisted on giving it.
Little Women
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She laughed her silvery laugh.
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Among the other seafood dishes, we liked the silvery appetizer of pickled sardines and the house lobster chowder, which is peach-colored and stocked with bluefoot mushrooms and squares of smoky bacon.
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Iron is a silvery white or grayish metal that is ductile and malleable.
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Even though it was mainly scales or the repetitious construction of a melody Chuck might be working out, there was always something soothing about his silvery sylvan songs drifting from our home.
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His hands now were lustrous with silvery scales flaking off ugly patches of red.
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_ Head and thorax with bright silvery tomentum, facialia without bristles, epistoma slightly prominent; eyes bare; mouth black, testaceous towards the base, full as long as the thorax; antennæ tawny, not reaching the epistoma, arista plumose; legs black, coxæ and femora testaceous; wings grey, veins black.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Over the gunwale of the banca, in a sparkle of flying spray, silvery in the morning sun, the maskalonge gleamed.
Darkness and Dawn
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It was a long, silvery iridescent gown covered with glittering stars and moons.
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Face silvery; antennæ testaceous, black towards the tips, arista full as long as the thorax; thorax with three cupreous stripes; pectus silvery; abdomen with cupreous purple bands and with whitish spots along each side; legs testaceous, tarsi and hind tibiæ black; wings slightly greyish, blackish brown along the costa and about the transverse veins, veins black, fore branch of the præbrachial vein curved inward, discal transverse vein undulating; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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By chance the ship had arrived at the perfect time of year, and the silence of the forest at noon was broken everywhere by the sounds of exploding capsules of hevea fruits scattering seeds one hundred feet from the bases of the tall, silvery trees.
One River
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Around this bundle of neurones, that is around the nerve, is still another wrapping, silvery-white, called the neurilemma.
The Mind and Its Education
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Head white, face brilliant silvery; mystax with four bristles; mouth black, short, slender; eyes flat in front; antennæ black, almost as long as the breadth of the head; third joint long, slender, lanceolate; thorax deep black; scutellum reddish tawny; hind tibiæ black, with tawny tips; wings greyish, veins black; discal veinlet and third externo-medial vein forming one straight line, as in the genus
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The silvery globe of the moon sank towards the horizon.
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Cerdic was a big disman, with silvery hair and beard, and blue eyes.
The Wicked Day
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As I turned, far off in Cairo I saw the first lights glittering across the fields of doura, silvery white, like diamonds.
The Spell of Egypt
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When the velamen is too dry, its color is silvery or white while a watered velamen will appear green or slightly mottled.
EzineArticles
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The wild geranium was already showing its pink stem and scarlet-edged leaves, themselves almost gorgeous enough to pass for flowers; the periwinkle, with its wreaths of shining foliage, was hanging in garlands over the precipitous descent; and the lily of the valley, the fragrant woodroof, and the silvery wild garlick, were just peeping from the earth in the most sheltered nooks.
The Ground-Ash
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At first, it appeared to be an atmospheric abstraction made of green and silvery blue brushstrokes.
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The two violas produce an earthy sound breaking the silvery brightness of the flute and violin.
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The silvery moonlight dappled Luka's skin like sunlight, bleaching it to a state of porcelain perfection.
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A crack appeared, growing slowly until a pink beak and then a wet, silvery-grey head emerged - a trumpeter swan cygnet.
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The year was ushered in by starlit skies, a bright silvery moon and biting cold.
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I let out a silvery laugh which echoed through the courtyard.
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When he reached Manfred and Diego, they were passing a silvery, saucer-shaped UFO trapped in the frozen wall.
ICE AGE
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About her shoulders was a shawl that seemed at first an ashy gray, but upon closer inspection was revealed to be interwoven with silvery threads and beads, rippling with a watery sheen as she moved.
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He leads by following opinion, he trims, he shifts, he glides on the silvery sounds of his undulating, flexible, cautiously modulated voice, winding his way betwixt heaven and earth.
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The glow touched the roses in the front yard, its silvery incandescence casting light into the shadowed bushes.
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Another boat chugged past and at that moment our world exploded in hissing silvery blue, the sea whisking and shining in a turmoil of a bustle of fish and phosphorescence, like coins gleaming in a dark, still pool.
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Bluebeard comes on strong in spring with silvery, almost-white toothed foliage, followed by the clearest blue, starry flowers in late summer.
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How tranquil! How quiet! What silvery moonlight! Where are you, my dearWhen can we sit together by the window enjoying this quiet, tranquil evening.
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Green darners are large, showy dragonflies with silvery iridescent wings.
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The mailbox was one of the usual silvery aluminum boxes, with the numbers written neatly in Magic Marker, 22219.
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Slowly it rose — its mighty neck cuirassed with gold and scarlet scales from whose polished surfaces the amber light glinted like flakes of fire; and under this neck shimmered something like a palely luminous silvery shield, guarding it.
The Moon Pool
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As they fly they call a tumbling silvery trill, musical and intimate, that seems to keep them together and makes you look up.
A Year on the Wing
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It was very sentimental: 2,000 of us listened to pop songs rather than singing hymns, and the gadgetry that Heselden loved was used to project his chunky face in silvery light on the factory wall of his company, Hesco Bastion.
A life lesson from the late, great Jimi Heselden
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Face and pectus silvery; antennæ black, arista longer than the thorax; thorax with three broad reddish cupreous stripes; abdomen with broad cupreous purple bands; femora lutescent, tibiæ piceous, fore femora blackish towards the tips, tarsi black; wings black, tips snow-white, fore branch of the præbrachial vein slightly curved inward, discal transverse vein much curved outward; halteres tawny, with black tips.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Within an hour's drive of Scotland's elegantly-terraced capital are snow-dusted crags and high, peaty moors, tumbling cascades, sinuous, copper-coloured rivers and silvery lochs a mile or more deep.
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I'm just trying to compose my face into the right look of condescending congratulation when she heaves on to the deck not one but six beautiful, silvery, shiny mackerel.
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Tombstone could see the silvery arc of one of the Russian's outboard turboprops, could see the markings painted on the backswept wing, a huge red star bordered in white.
Carrie
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As he chipped the stone away, Michael realized it was a cylindrical object, tapering gradually to a point at each end, made entirely of the odd, silvery metal.
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Brunswick are to her what the railroads are now to other countries: and richly is she blessed with sparkling waters from the diamond flashings of the mountain rill to the still calm beauty of the sheltered lake, the silvery streams, the sweeping river, and the unfrozen width of the winter harbour of her noble bay.
Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America
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She stopped for a moment, then broke out in silvery, childlike laughter.
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Back in the woods a little patch of harebells grew, and lower down, in a protected hollow, were bleeding-hearts and adder's-tongue, closely guarded by the clasp of their furry silvery leaves.
My beloved South,
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The bonefish are right over there, a silvery school materializing out of the greener water to graze the shrimpy mud of the flat.
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The underwings are two-toned: silvery flight feathers with black wing-linings.
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But the skyscape that greets me is an indistinct silvery grey and looks almost like backlit cloud.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another common thistle is spear thistle, which is sturdy, silvery and even pricklier.
Times, Sunday Times
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His pale, blond hair stuck out unkemptly, almost looking silvery under the dim light.
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His silvery hairline was receding and he really needed a shave.
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The real kicker for this cover is its silvery, holographic pattern of a butterfly's wing as a background to the larger white silhouette.
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Catmint is a perennial with aromatic silvery foliage and lilac-blue flowers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The timber cladding on the outside is untreated and has taken on a bleached, silvery colour as it has weathered.
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The silvery globe of the moon hung in the sky.
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Away below a silvery stream snakes its way downhill, one of the hill's two Cleuch Burns that run down to feed the infant Clyde.
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The bismuth resinate luster had fired to perfection, a haunting film of silvery-black metal with strange bluish lights in it as it turned before the eyes, and the Problem of Population seemed very far away to Hawkins then.
Science Fiction Hall of Fame
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Colour of the tubers may be white, silvery, light tan, red, or purple.
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The silvery figure stood in front of him, arms akimbo.
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With their silvery outlines and flashes of colour, the drawings have a sublime grandeur.
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The leathery foliage is bright green and the catkins silvery grey.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is made of a thin, silvery metal with the letter X punched through it.
Times, Sunday Times
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She had long silvery hair framing her delicate face.
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We headed back, stopping to watch the area's famous pink flamingos in the silvery moonlight.
Times, Sunday Times
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On a shallow rocky reef, two silvery sea bass accompany us during a 45-minute dive.
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He heard a silvery, feminine laugh nearby and turned to see who it was.
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Caviar in tins and jars range from salmon's red (ripe and briny) at 99 roubles for a 113-gram can to the luscious, silvery-grey beluga at 500 roubles.
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It was a sharp, angular face with high arching eyebrows and a mop of perfectly messy red-gold hair mixed with silvery gray crowing the head.
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Hurting and helpless, he was in no immediate danger from Rose who chose to advance on me, holding the silvery black five-foot long punty iron loaded ready to strike if I didn't dodge fast enough.
Shattered
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Its underside is covered with a dense layer of very fine, silky hairs that trap air contained in the cocoon to form a thin, silvery cushion, called a plastron.
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The contamination appeared to be mostly contained in a first-floor science classroom, where the silvery metal leaked from a manometer, a U-shaped glass device used to measure air pressure, Dieringer said.
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Lepra vulgaris was described as enlarging, sharply marginated erythematous plaques with silvery-white scale that occurred most frequently on the knees, and were associated with nail pitting.
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The silvery sheen displayed by many pelagic fishes is an example of structural color.
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The olive is an evergreen with foliage of a distinctive silvery-green.
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Her silvery hair was pulled up in a neat bun.
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Horace Andy takes control of the sound system with his silvery vocals.
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repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen
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Litchfield - About one-fifth of the 117 butterfly species native to the state - including the silvery checkerspot, northern metalmark and frosted elfin - are listed as rare and endangered by the Department of Environmental Protection, a decline that has hastened in the past three years.
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The leaves are green on top and silvery on the underside.
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I will blame anything and everything I can for the gray hair which a friend suggested I call silvery since it sounds less old and more pretty.
New Glasses!
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He was only several feet from his destination when light, silvery laughter rang out behind him.
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IN front of Molly, the path, deep in silvery orchard grass, wound through the pasture to the witch-hazel thicket at Jordan's Journey; and when she entered the shelter of the trees, Gay came, whistling, toward her from the direction of the Poplar Spring.
The Miller of Old Church
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She giggled, filling his ears with that same surreal silvery laugh.
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Each one has its silvery gray live-oak lintel, still supporting the column of lovely pink brick.
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‘Well, then I'm surely going to get along royally with him ’, the silvery blonde boy laughed humourlessly.
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This dulotic nest belongs to a red slave-raiding Polyergus species which is parasitic on the silvery field ant Formica argentea.
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At the back of the store, the silvery gleam of a large opah (moonfish) was on display with other catches from the ocean.
Starbulletin Headlines
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Sea bass is a silvery grey fish with succulent white flesh.
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Through a common magnifying glass each tiny barbule was seen to be ringed with gray and silvery white, so finely that the rings could hardly be seen.
In Nesting Time
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Leaves on the sweet bay and bigleaf (M. macrophylla) have silvery undersides that shimmer in the wind.
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The _spikelets_ are 1/8 to 1/6 inch concealed by long silvery hairs of the callus and the glumes, articulate at the base; callus hairs are about twice as long as the spikelet or longer.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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But what pleasure to be left hanging as the sticky captive in the center of the silvery web!
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Everything seemed so strange and silvery in the starlight and every so often my head would nod and I'd stumble and start.
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LEAVES: Alternate with short petiole hardly 3 mm long, usually elliptic with a rounded tip, base cuneate or slightly cordate, blade leathery, light green above, silvery grey and softly hairy underneath.
Chapter 7
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Little rags and shreds of smoke, so unlike the great silvery plumes that uncurled from the Sheridans 'chimneys.
The Garden Party, and Other Stories
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It crowded up to the raised barrel of 1-70 on both sides, silvery and shim - mering, making the signs and guardrails and stalled cars waver like mi-rages; it gave off that liquidy humming sound like a stench.
Wizard and Glass
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Cora was a short and unnaturally skinny pale girl with silvery blonde hair and cerulean blue eyes.
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A sigh escaped from his lips just as he was pushing back his long silvery platinum bangs.
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Once spun, the cocoon takes on a silvery appearance, indicating that it is full of air that seeped out from the slit-like incisions in the root made by the larval hooks.
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How tranquil! How quiet! What silvery moonlight! Where are you, my dearWhen can we sit together by the window enjoying this quiet, tranquil evening.
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_cyprieres_, draped with the silvery _tillandsia_, form a background to the picture with all the grandeur of the pyrogenous granite!
The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
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That was the total fulfillment of the dream of the little fat girl from Utah, who had sat with her dad on a broken-down couch, basking in the silvery glow of the television in an otherwise empty living room, on that weird little street in that most enchanted of cities—the city where I lived under at least two or three spells before I even got to la-la land.
Roseanne Archy
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She came through the doors a few moments later, her long silvery hair flowing around her.
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In 1751, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt of Sweden attempted to extract copper from the mineral niccolite and to his surprise got a silvery-white metal, instead of the copper.
Nickel
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THE silvery Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) speaks to two of man's most basic instincts: the need to hunt and the need to tell stories.
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Wandering Jew (Tradescantia zebrina): Also known as "Inch Plant", Wandering Jew has leaves with strong dark green and silvery green contrast.
Lifehacker
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Antennæ tawny, arista white; thorax and abdomen with bright silvery tomentum; tarsi whitish testaceous; wings limpid, veins pale.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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It's a silvery world of mauves, soft greens and occasional outbursts of clear colour.
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Beside the stream she found a patch of flowers with silvery green leaves and golden petals.
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Hafnium is a bright, silvery gray metal that is very ductile.
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It causes grey or silvery flaky patches on the skin which are red and inflamed underneath.
The Sun
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Mercury is also known by the popular name of quicksilver, derived from the Greek words, hydros meaning water, and argyros meaning silver, because this silvery mineral occurs at room temperature as a liquid.
Mercury (element)
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Earlier, three canoeists wended along the quiet millstream on the outgoing tide – passing marsh marigolds and partially submerged trunks of silvery willows towards reed beds, with spears of new growth and the scratchy song of returned sedge warblers.
Country Diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley
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Psoriatic lesions usually have thicker scales that appear silvery after rubbing and bleed on removal.
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A fairy in short, silvery skirts rode by on two horses.
Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings
