was silvering
- past progressive of silver.
Example Sentences
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“What a lovely morning!” said Harry to Mavers, who was leaning over the bows, looking seaward and eastward where the sun was silvering a broad belt of long rippling wavelets.
From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Stables, Gordon
The moon was silvering the bush of the plains, forty miles off and three thousand feet below us.
From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John
Her eyes were widely set, and blue, and mother-sweet, and her hair was silvering with the caress of the years.
From The Stars in the Pool A Prose Poem for Lovers by Wallace, Edna Kingsley
The sun was silvering the waves of the river when the boat was lifted from the ground, and the journey resumed.
From Little Oskaloo or, The White Whirlwind by Harbaugh, Thomas Chalmers
When they looked up, the moon was silvering the tops of the trees, and the distant peaks of the Welsh mountains, and glimmering and flashing to and fro, like strings of diamonds, on the water.
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
