silvern
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of silvern
before 900; Middle English silver ( e ) n, selvern, Old English seolfren, seolfern. See silver, -en 2
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As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,—"Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
I heard soft voices of birds 234 and the music also of gentle human voices singing, and tenderly played instruments of silken and silvern strings.
From The Singing Mouse Stories by Emerson Hough
Wiser eyes than Sara's saw the cloud--observed that it grew blacker and more thunderous as it lowered nearer earth--that its lining, instead of being silvern, was lurid red.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
And still the moonbeams fling a silvern dart, Straight through my window's iron barricade....
From Mavis of Green Hill by Faith Baldwin
It was even visible in the sky already, giving faint white promise of silvern glory to come.
From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by J. E. (James Edmund) Vincent
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