silveriness
- a word derived from silvery.
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
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
All round him there was silveriness and silence, and overhead the moon.
From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by King, Basil
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
Moreover, along with the silveriness of Rameau, the simple solidity of French prose, and some of the old jollity of the medieval French artists, is in the music of Franck.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul
