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
Canopywork, more universal than ever, was represented almost entirely in white touched with yellow stain, but not in sufficient quantities to impair its silveriness.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
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
All round him there was silveriness and silence, and overhead the moon.
From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by King, Basil
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
