ADJECTIVE
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resembling or reminiscent of silver
singing in her silvery tones
a soft silvern voice -
having the white lustrous sheen of silver
a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap
repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen
How To Use silvern In A Sentence
- Round the pavilion ran a channel of water, turning a Persian wheel317 whose buckets 318 were silvern covered with brocade. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Therewith up sprang the gardener lad and mounting one of the young men's mules, was absent awhile, after which he returned with a Cairene girl, as she were a sheep's tail, fat and delicate, or an ingot of pure silvern ore or a dinar on a porcelain plate or a gazelle in the wold forlore. Arabian nights. English
- He put the silvern tray onto the nightstand table.
- She was clad in brocades befitting Kings; her breasts were like twin pomegranates, a woven zone set with all kinds of jewels tightly clasped her waist which expanded below into jutting hips; and her hinder cheeks stood out as a mound of crystal185 supporting a silvern shaft. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap
- For it is only by being convinced of the truth and importance of our thoughts that there arises in us the inspiration necessary for the inexhaustible patience to discover the clearest, finest, and most powerful expression for them; just as one puts holy relics or priceless works of art in silvern or golden receptacles. Essays of Schopenhauer
- Speech is silver [silvern], (but) silence is gold [golden].
- They stepped out again into a silvern meadow.
- Although both girls had unusual eyes and silvern blond hair, no one would have mistaken one for the other.
- At the upper end rose a throne of gold whereon sat a damsel, whose face was like the moon, arrayed in royal raiment and beautified as she were a bride on the night of her displaying; and at the foot of the throne was a table of forty trays spread with golden and silvern dishes full of dainty viands. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night