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Silvern   Listen
adjective
Silvern  adj.  Made of silver. (Archaic.) "Speech is silvern; silence is golden."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Silvern" Quotes from Famous Books



... to praise A lady, princess, goddess, artist such; For great ones crane their foreheads to her touch, To change their splendours into crowns of bays. But poets never rhyme as they are bid; Nor never see their ft goal; but aspire, With straining eyes, to some far silvern spire; Flowers among, sing to the gods cloud-hid. One of these, onetime, opened velvet eyes Upon the world—the years recall the day; Those lights still shine, conscious of power alway, But flattering men with ...
— Silverpoints • John Gray

... to him; he used the old greeting, in case they had any magic whereby they should overcome and deceive him. But they came endowed—not with devil-craft, but with divine might. They bore Christ's rood-token—a silvern cross of Christ and a likeness of the Lord Jesus colored and delineated on a board; and were crying the names of holy men; and singing prayers together, made supplication to the Lord for the everlasting health of themselves and of those to whom ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 4 • Various

... me chainlets, silvern, golden, I that sow shall surely reap; While as yet my Spouse is holden Like a Lion in mountained sleep.' 'Make her chainlets, silvern, golden, She hath sown and she shall reap; Look up to the mountains olden, Whence help comes with lioned leap.' By what gushed the bitter ...
— New Poems • Francis Thompson



Words linked to "Silvern" :   bright, silver, silvery, euphonious, euphonous



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