Example Sentences

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In the second, the gray of that day of art is silvering the self-painted portrait of the prematurely frigid and facile formalist, Andrea del Sarto.

From Men and Women by Porter, Charlotte Endymion

But he is gazing on the moonlit brow Of his dead Agathè, and fondly now, The light is silvering her bloodless face And the cold grave-clothes.

From The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras by Lang, Andrew

Once more the starlight is silvering all; The roses sleep by the garden wall; The night bird warbles his madrigal, And I hear again through the sweet air fall The evening bugle-call.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Shelley's white-orbed maiden sits in the sky, and already her pale torch is silvering the peaks of the ruins.

From The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 by Stewart, George