quicksilver

How To Use quicksilver In A Sentence

• More impressive still is his quicksilver dexterity in following the ever-changing contours of Sibelius' form.
• Our ability to foresee and avert techno-terrorism or bio slip-ups may be more like Skating on Stilts over ball bearings in quicksilver. The Volokh Conspiracy » Smallpox in the garage
• Thanks to every instructor at BOEC who has allowed me to propel myself, in my monoski, up that hill to the Quicksilver lift. Summit Daily News - Top Stories
• Hanuman smiled, and then he spoke, and his words were as cool as quicksilver, `But we haven't recorded your memories yet. THE BROKEN GOD
• He was a beatnik and hippie, and was once the manager for the rock group ‘Quicksilver Messenger Service.’
• Take half an ounce of samphire, dissolve it in two ounces of aquaevitae, add to it one ounce of quicksilver, one ounce of liquid storax, which is the droppings of Myrrh and hinders the camphire from firing; take also two ounces of hematitus, a red stone to be had at the druggist's, and when you buy it let them beat it to powder in their great mortar, for it is so very hard that it cannot be done in a small one; put this to the afore-mentioned composition, and when you intend to walk on the bar you must annoint your feet well therewith, and you may walk over without danger: by this you may wash your hands in boiling lead. The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé
• The play scoffs at citizens like Gertrude who marry above their station; at wannabe gallants like Quicksilver the apprentice; and at ‘false’ gentlemen such as the new-made knight Sir Petronel Flash.
• Her quicksilver changes of intent, complex multiple qualities, polyrhythms, and opposing body parts warred with Anderson's weeping strings to create a moving picture of grief.
• They were like crystal clear pools of pale green water, emotions, thoughts, flashing like quicksilver fish in their depths. DEVIL'S BRIDE
• Kepler noted with satisfaction that it would be appropriate to correlate the sun with gold, the density of which is greater than that of quicksilver.