764 examples of silvery in sentences

She springs into the sea, and mingles with the silvery rays of the sun, which sparkle on the dimples of the laughing waves.

Apollo's upward fire Made every eastern cloud a silvery pyre Of brightness so unsullied that therein A melancholy spirit well might win Oblivion, and melt out his essence fine Into the winds.

Empires have been overturned, crowns trodden into dust, the face of the Western world quite changed; your friends have all got old, those you left blooming, myself (who am one of the few that remember you)those golden hairs which you recollect my taking a pride in, turned to silvery and gray.

How pleasant the life of a bird must be, Skimming about on the breezy sea, Cresting the billows like silvery foam, Then wheeling away to its cliff-built home!

He went to the windows of those who slept, And over each pane, like a fairy, crept; Wherever he breathed, wherever he stepped, By the light of the morn were seen Most beautiful things; there were flowers and trees; There were bevies of birds and swarms of bees; There were cities with temples and towers; and these All pictured in silvery sheen!

See me! 'tis this silvery bill Ever cures the good man's ill.

In the sky alone, A matchless, wonderful, silvery light, Radiant and lovely, the Queen of the night. Said the Wind"What a marvel of power am I!

She laughedher low, sweet, silvery laugh, the like of which I have hardly heard among Earthly women, even of the simpler, more child-like races of the East and South; a laugh still stranger in a world where childhood is seldom bright and womanhood mostly sad and fretful.

Again she resumed her way; and, regardless of fatigue, she never paused again until she reached the border of the quiet and lonely lake, on which the rising moon was now shining in all her silvery splendor.

But first the rose-cheeked handmaids gathered round, And washed obsequiously the stranger's feet; Then on the margin of the silvery lake Attentive sate.

I remember nothing but the silvery apparition of a good white head emerging; nigh which a staff (the hand unseen that wielded it) pointed upwards, as feeling for the skies.

Longest Day set off westward in beautiful crimson and goldthe rest, some in one fashion, some in another; but Valentine and pretty May took their departure together in one of the prettiest silvery twilights a Lover's Day could wish to set in.

It was a grateful sight to see old men, with long and silvery beards, reclining in mute and serious attention; young men lounging in the pride and consciousness of animal strength; little children intermixed, but without prattle or merrimentall fixed and fascinated with the charm of vocal song.

The elm, the first big tree to stir in its sleep, showed tiny, curled leaflets of a doubting, yellowish green; and the later moving oaks were frankly sceptical, one glowing faintly brown and crimson, another silvery gray and pink.

and still she sat on the front porch and watched the gradual spread of a misty, silvery sheen over the brow of the bench and the distant peaks of the shadowy Costejo range as the pale moon, in its last half, lifted itself above the sand-hills at the gap through which the Cimarron tumbled out of the valley.

she whispered, "Listen!" Now as they sat there, very silent,faint and far-away upon the still night air, they heard a sound; a silvery, rhythmic sound, it was,like the musical clash of fairy cymbals which drew rapidly nearer, and nearer; and Bellew felt that Miss Priscilla's hand was trembling upon his arm as she leaned forward, listening with a smile upon her parted lips, and a light in her eyes that was ineffably tender.

Those who had already reached the chapel streamed back in wild confusion to answer the summons which filled the court with clanging echoes, while the silvery notes of the chapel chimes sounded faintly in the pauses of the deeper reverberationslike the voice of a timid child crying to be comforted when it does not understand.

They had passed Fusina, and the lagoon lay silvery, like a trail of moonlight behind themVenice in the distance, opalesque, radiant, a city of dreams.

At 10.0 the country was covered with an open scrub of terminalia, with silvery leaves, and triodia replaced the grass.

That, at least, was her father's verdict; for, as to me, I found it the perfection of happiness merely to sit and look at hera state of mind that would have been in no wise disturbed even by Silvery Waves or The Maiden's Prayer.

The fawn-colored damask curtains had given place to crimson; and in lieu of the silvery paper, the walls were covered with bird-of-paradise color, touched with golden gleams.

On the day when I again take up the thread of this story, she was seated in her parlor, in a dress of silvery gray silk, which contrasted pleasantly with the crimson chair.

The moon and snow lighted the earth as if by day, and with a silvery glory.

And her easy manners, and ready, silvery words, would have given a dangerous charm to a much plainer woman.

One or two were so handsome, under their noble silvery locks, that almost any womanClotilde, for instance,would have thought, "No doubt that one, or that one, is the head of the house."

764 examples of  silvery  in sentences