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"Will that answer?" asked Mr. Petrofsky, when they had reached his house, and he had handed Tom several strips of the precious silverlike metal.

From Tom Swift and His Air Glider, or Seeking the Platinum Treasure by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]

A bell smote the still air, a silverlike bell.

From True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin by Pierce, H. Winthrop

The scene from it is most picturesque, nearly three hundred feet above the silverlike Cumberland, which winds nearly around the city.

From An Artilleryman's Diary by Jones, Jenkins Lloyd