silvern
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of silvern
before 900; Middle English silver ( e ) n, selvern, Old English seolfren, seolfern. See silver, -en 2
Example Sentences
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The tone was the faintest of whispers, but the voice was as if the silvern echoes of heavenly harps had suddenly been wafted to the listener’s anxious ear.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Bertram Mitford
To recommend contemplation in preference to action is like preferring sleeping to waking; or saying, as a full expression of the truth, that silence is golden and speech silvern.
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Sir Leslie Stephen
The silvern chords of the piano trembled Still with the music wrung From them; the silence of the room dissembled The closes of the songs that she had sung.
From Poems by William Dean Howells
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
Or else the seraphim would call: "Minstrels, your dulcimers let fall And break the silvern psalteries!"
From The Piper and the Reed by Robert W. Norwood
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