117 examples of steely in sentences
The Marne winds, steely grey, through the white landscape, and we run down to it quickly.
The steely armour glitter'd o'er the fields, And lightnings flash'd from gold emblazoned shields; Thou wouldst have said, the clouds had burst in showers, Of sparkling amber o'er the martial powers.[30] Thus, close embodied, they pursued their way, And reached the Barrier-fort in terrible array.
It" "Has a special compartment for chocolates; hasn't it, Grace?" asked Mollie Billette, whose dark and flashing eyes, and black hair, with just a shade of steely-blue in it, betrayed the French blood in her veins.
To your point!" Seven hesitated under that steely stare.
Mr. Downing's voice was steely.
First in its brazen cell reluctant roll'd Bends the dark spring in many a steely fold; 175 On spiral brass is stretch'd the wiry thong, Tooth urges tooth, and wheel drives wheel along; In diamond-eyes the polish'd axles flow, Smooth slides the hand, the ballance pants below.
Far to the right, the shining rivera riband of burnished steel, for its waters were a deep steely bluerolled its swift flood along amid shining sand-banks.
" Well may Adolf Stahr observe that Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth and husband-murdering Gertrude are mere children by the side of this awful giant-shape of steely feminine cruelty.
He had to remind himself of the steely purpose with which Howells had marked him as the murderer; and the man's power persisted after death.
" The ambassador's eyes grew steely, then blank again.
We can't all be clear and steely unsentimentalists like Katherine Varick.
And, pendent from each rusty nail, Helmet and steely dress, With bright and gilded morion, To grace that dim recess.
"Is this true?" asked Evan, presently, and I had never seen his eyes look so steely cold.
Wilbur Cowan did all the talking; he was grim, steely eyed, imperious.
Her new schoolshe was always going to new schoolswould be only five miles from Steely Bank, and it was in the Steely Bank Polytechnic, and one or two first-class schools, that Mr. Snooks did his teaching.
Her new schoolshe was always going to new schoolswould be only five miles from Steely Bank, and it was in the Steely Bank Polytechnic, and one or two first-class schools, that Mr. Snooks did his teaching.
The two latter communications contained urgent invitations for her to come to Steely Bank on a visit during the Christmas holidays.
The sprinkling of quiet army officers on the train were in the new uniform of peculiar steely grey, in place of the target blue and red.
She fixed her steely blue eyes sternly on the visitor, and inquired stiffly what he thought she wanted a husband for, and what use he reckoned sich-like 'ud be to her.
I saw the steely smile on Duke Otho's face.
From the rim the slopes looked steely and dark, thinned out, showing the rocks and slides.
How dark in the shade and steely and cold they looked!
The shadows of the tree-trunks lie black and defined across the roadbranches, twigs, every thingthen comes a sweep of steely cloud, and they disappear, swallowed up in one uniform gray: a colorless moment or two passes, and the sun pushes out again; and they start forth distinct and defined, each little shoot and great limb, into new life on the bright ground.
Late in the afternoon of November 3d, just as the long northern twilight was fading into the peculiar steely blue of an arctic night, our dogs toiled slowly up the last summit of the Samanka Mountains, and we looked down from a height of more than two thousand feet upon the dreary expanse of snow which stretched away to the far horizon.
" Burke said nothing, but his grey eyes had a more steely look than usual as he digested the news.
