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silvery

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1. silvery - Adjective

2. silvery - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright.

Besprinkled or covered with silver.

Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound; as, silvery voices; a silvery laugh.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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And then, a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now... I knew such lovely pictures. Anthony Burgess

The first night, a rock, big as two fists. The second, a rock big as three. But nary a curse cursed Rudolph Reed. (Though oaken as man could be.) The third night, a silvery ring of glass. Patience arched to endure, But he looked, and lo! small Mabel's blood Was staining her gaze so pure. Gwendolyn Brooks

[Jem] looked from Will to Tessa and raised his silvery eyebrows. "A miracle," he said. "You got him to speak." "Just to shout at me, really," said Tessa. "Not quite loaves and fishes. Cassandra Clare

In the case of a writer like Musil writing is often a graceful act, like a silvery fish leaping. Elfriede Jelinek

That memorable day died in purple and gold, and just as the last traces of the sunset faded in the west and the star-lilies filled the sky, the full moon looked down over the rim of the valley, and the great rocks, catching the silvery glow, came forth out of the dusky shadows like very spirits. John Muir

BEAUTIFUL Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay! With your numerous arches and pillars in so grand array And your central girders, which seem to the eye To be almost towering to the sky. William McGonagall

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