silver point

American  

noun

1. the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.

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Example Sentences

Then they will inspect Leonardo’s tools — red chalk, ink and silver point — and use their own versions to create imaginative art.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2014

The whole point of the book is to delight people who can understand that "Debussy is the wettest music —passion done in silver point," and similar subtle apperceptions.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is more suited to drawings where extreme delicacy of form is desired, and is usually used in silver point work, a medium capable of the utmost refinement.

From The Practice and Science of Drawing by Speed, Harold

Below them came slopes in delicate silver point: olive trees quivering in the dazzling light, and, in the foreground, a low belt of pines, straggling out like a fringe round the sandy race course.

From The Man with the Double Heart by Hine, Muriel

That their faces shine Betwixt the solemn clasping of their wings Clasped high to a silver point above their heads,— We only guess from hence, and not discern.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett