Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like silver, as regards either appearance or tone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Like silver in appearance or in sound.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb poetic With a
silver appearance or sound.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Suddenly the first bird called silverly, startling the dusk.
Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904
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Near at hand a fountain tinkled silverly, and other unseen fountains in various parts of the great garden whispered an everlasting symphony.
Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006
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Along the mountain stream that slipped silverly away in the valley below, there were oleanders in bloom, such as we had left in Bermuda the April before.
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Near at hand a fountain tinkled silverly, and other unseen fountains in various parts of the great garden whispered an everlasting symphony.
The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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Near at hand a fountain tinkled silverly and other, unseen fountains in various parts of the great garden whispered an everlasting symphony.
The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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Near at hand a fountain tinkled silverly and other, unseen fountains in various parts of the great garden whispered an everlasting symphony.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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Near at hand a fountain tinkled silverly, and other unseen fountains in various parts of the great garden whispered an everlasting symphony.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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Near at hand a fountain tinkled silverly, and other unseen fountains in various parts of the great garden whispered an everlasting symphony.
The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989
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They were talking by broken snatches, as in a shared dream where precise expression was not needed, and their voices, mellowly male and silverly female, sounded even in the distance like brief peals of laughter.
The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983
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They were talking by broken snatches, as in a shared dream where precise expression was not needed, and their voices, mellowly male and silverly female, sounded even in the distance like brief peals of laughter.
The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983
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