Example Sentences

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Often on a cold day, Francie came in chilled and put her arms around the boiler and pressed her frosty cheek gratefully against its warm silveriness.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

For interminable miles a vast icy plateau stretched before them—a plain glistening with snow and reflecting like a burnished mirror the misty silveriness of the moon.

From The Eternal Maiden by Harré, T. Everett

Truly Giorgione has here foreshadowed Velasquez, whose silveriness of tone is curiously anticipated; yet the true Giorgionesque quality of magic is felt in a way that the impersonal Spaniard never realised.

From Giorgione by Cook, Herbert

He glanced around him, unusually contented—at the ruddiness of the low fire, the brass bedstead, the warm red curtains, the soft silveriness here and there.

From The Return by De la Mare, Walter

For with a whisk of my wing I brush my feet clear of the tell-tale silveriness!

From Chantecler Play in Four Acts by Rostand, Edmond