Silvery

['sɪlv(ə)rɪ] or ['sɪlvəri]

Definition

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

(a.) Besprinkled or covered with silver.

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

Editor: Ricky

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. Silver.

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Examples

They watched the plane moving high and silvery and steady in the sunlight. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Hardly, returned Bulstrode, in the same deliberate, silvery tone; except by some changes of plan. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Gentlemen, was uttered in Miss Keeldar's silvery but vibrating tones, spare my locks, if you please. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
How perfect it was, how VERY perfect it was, this silvery isolation and interplay. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
There was a strange, loud whiz and a long, silvery tinkle of broken glass. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
A low, silvery laugh rang out behind me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
She laughed a silvery little mockery, yet intolerably caressive. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
As Riah followed to attend him down the stairs, the little creature called out to the Jew in a silvery tone, 'Don't be long gone. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
They looked very well in their simple suits, Meg's in silvery drab, with a blue velvet snood, lace frills, and the pearl pin. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
The silvery mist was touched with the first rays of the moonlight, and the same rays touched the tears that dropped from her eyes. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
She could feel their voices, hers and his, ringing silvery like bells in the frozen, motionless air of the first twilight. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
On the silvery space slept two sable shadows, thrown sharply defined from two human figures. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Let but a flute Play 'neath the fine-mixed metal listen close Till the right note flows forth, a silvery rill. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
A cold silvery mist had veiled the afternoon, and the moon was not yet up to scatter it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
A white-winged gull flew by, with the flash of sunshine on its silvery breast. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
After boiling for five or six hours, they have a thin coating of tin, which gives them their silvery appearance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
When the two boats were beached upon the silvery sand it was a strange assortment of humanity that clambered ashore. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
Having removed this impediment, and lifted certain silvery envelopes of tissue paper, she merely exclaimed-- Oh ciel! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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