37 examples of silver hair in sentences

His silver hair strayed from under a nightcap; he wore a light blue bedroom jacket; its color matched that of his restless eyes; his arms were under the clothes from the elbows down.

" Forthwith Beltane brought her a stool, rough and rudely fashioned, and while she sat, he lay beside her in the firelight; and thus, despite her hood and wimple, he saw her face was of a calm and noble beauty, smooth and unwrinkled despite the silver hair that peeped forth of her loosened hood.

Donnegan saw two highlightsfine silver hair that covered the head of the invalid and a pair of white hands fallen idly upon the surface of the big book, for if the silver hair suggested age the smoothly finished hands suggested perennial youth.

Donnegan saw two highlightsfine silver hair that covered the head of the invalid and a pair of white hands fallen idly upon the surface of the big book, for if the silver hair suggested age the smoothly finished hands suggested perennial youth.

The distorted shadows of the twain, dancing on stair and wall with the wavering lamp-shine, seemed phantoms capering in an infernal revel, and he glanced back ever and anon weening to see himself dogged by some frightful monster, but he saw only the silver hair and sable velvet of the dignified old man.

When I from black and he from white cloud free, And round the tent of God like lambs we joy, I'll shade him from the heat, till he can bear To lean in joy upon our Father's knee; And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair, And be like him, and he will then love me.

A gray matron, stout, and too tightly dressed for comfort, received him uneasily, a dark-eyed girl befriended him with a look and a quiet word, while a tall man, nodding a vigorous mop of silver hair, crushed his hand in a great bony fist.

And round the tent of God like lambs we joy, I'll shade him from the heat 'til he can bear To lean in joy upon our Father's knee; And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair, And be like him, and he will then love me.

Etienne Pasquier had become a learned and reverend old man, with silver hair.

The good Abbot of San Lucas, clad in his pontifical robes, with his jeweled mitre, his surplice and his golden crozier reclined, king of the choir, in a large armchair, amid all his clergy, who were impassive men with silver hair, and who surrounded him like the confessing saints whom the painters group round the Lord.

She was a tall and stately dame, with silver hair and a soft musical voicea perfect type of the old marquise, such as one sees portrayed at times on the boards of the Comedie Francaise, and after I had acted as interpreter for a quarter of an hour or so, she suddenly turned upon the master and, to the surprise of all of us, addressed him in perfect French.

THE BLACKBIRD The watering-pot, alias the Intermittent Baldpate, so called because there flows from his copper scalp when he is tilted a marvelous growth of silver hair.

Nan saw her father still standing at the door with smiling countenance, and the moonlight falling like a benediction on his silver hair.

"Dishevell'd by rude winds his silver hair; "O'er his chill'd bosom falls the winter's rain, "I feel the big drops on my wither'd brain: 100 "Not for himself that tear his bosom steeps, "For his lost child it flows, for me he weeps!

Time had dealt kindly with Mrs. Lasette, as he scattered his silvery crystals amid her hair, and of her it might be said, Each silver hair, each wrinkle there Records some good deed done, Some flower she scattered by the way Some spark from love's bright sun.

Let us bear in mind, too, how happily the hours went by with us so recently in the vine-embowered cottage of dear L.H., the beautiful old man with silver hair, "As hoary frost with spangles doth attire The mossy branches of an oak.

"For shame, Sir!" said the elderly woman, raising her distaff,her great glittering eyes flashing beneath her silver hair like tongues of lightning from a white cloud, "Have a care!this child is named for blessed Saint Agnes, and is under her protection.

The light from the carriage lamp glinted upon her silver hair, and gave a Rembrandt touch to a fair old Flemish face.

"That is my mother over there," he said presently, glancing towards the old lady with the silver hair.

The sharp rain, drizzling through that place of fear, Pierces the bones gnaw'd fleshless by despair, And the heart's horror stirs the silver hair.

The patriarch, with his silver hair, The matron grave, the maiden fair.

Mrs. Emerson sat at hand, a woman in her old age of striking beauty, with her silver hair beneath a cap of lace, her violet eyes, and her white face.

She wore a white habit shirt, the collar, bosom, and wristbands of which were visible; but no cap covered her silver hair, which was cropped in the neck, and divided at one side in true manly fashion.

"'And while the caliph, at the monstrous scene, Such as before ne'er shock'd a caliph's eyes, Stares at thy confidence in mute surprise, Then, as the Easterns wont, with lowly mien Fall on the earth before his golden throne, And gain (a trifle, proof of love alone) That it may please him, gift of friend to friend, Four of his grinders at my bidding send, And of his beard a lock with silver hair o'ergrown.

Was that the reason of the calm which made the white wasted face so beautiful, and the strange soft cool hush throughout the room? CHAPTER XXXIV Silver Hair

37 examples of  silver hair  in sentences