Their soft and silky plumage glitters with the most brilliant hues, and their tails are extremely long.
These consist of lichens, and are most artistically interwoven, the crevices being closed up with the bird's saliva: the interior is padded with the silky fibres furnished by various plants.
It was a most fascinating experience, to wander along holding these silky slippers which had twinkled through the evening of this night.
Her head was on his shoulder; the astrakan collar was silky to his chin.
I do not believe that she can be seriously impressed with that silky mother's boy.
I was silent for a few minutes, stroking Dido's silky head, letting her rippled ears fall through my fingers.
The remainder of the limbs and under surface and sides of the body beneath the overlapping lateral parts of the back shield are clothed with rather long, soft silky hair.
Its horny covering is pinkish, and its silky hair white.
When a glass rod is heated in a flame until perfectly soft it can be drawn out in the form of very fine threads which may be used in the production of handsome silky fabrics.
Lincoln Wool= is a typical wool obtained from the long wool sheep, and noted for its long, lustrous fiber, which is silky and strong.
By the action of these, the short fibers are separated and combed out, and the long ones arranged in parallel order in the form of a thin, silky strand, in which condition it is sent to the drawing frames to be drawn out.
With considerable pressure between smooth rollers a soft, silky luster is given by equal flattening of all the threads.
The seed is covered with a greenish fur and is enveloped in a fine, silky down, yellowish white in color.
Egyptian cotton, on account of its long staple and silky gloss, is imported in considerable quantities.
This is a process of treating cotton yarn or fabrics with caustic soda and sulphuric acid whereby they are made stronger and heavier, and given a silky luster and feel.
After it is bleached and combed it makes a fine silky fiber, one-half the weight of linen, and three times stronger than hemp.
It is made from the long, silky hair of the Angora goat of Asia Minor, a species which is being introduced into the United States.
The beautiful silky pelt now rests on the parlor floor of Young's home with a ferocious wide open mouth waiting to scare little children, or trip up the unwary visitor.
Of course, he had long claws like the bear in the beginning, and fine silky fur.
Her head, slightly thrown back, as she greeted him with frank and self-possessed composure, was beautifully poised, and crowned with a bounteous coil of silky brown hair.
This little girl is a red-hot patriot, Colvin," said Stephanus, resting a large hand lightly upon the silky brown coil.
Darkness washed over Chris Travers, lying limp beneath the shreds of a silky white shroud.
A silky canescent wormwood about one foot high, its leaves pinnate; found on the north side of the mountain by Flett.
The "silky willow" is plentiful along the Nisqually at Longmire Springs.
The collar of his tunic was of bears' claws, and among the scalp-locks which fringed his leggings were several of silky fair hair.
It is a scalp--the blood trickling freely down the long, shining, silky tress.
Then, soundlessly, the wide-slitted mouth opened; and Hamil saw its silky white lining.
She has great, soft, trusting eyes of a deep rare gray, that looking compel the truth; above her low white forehead her hair rolls back in silky ruffled waves, and is gathered into a loose knot behind.
Most workers prior to 1900 utilized the family name Ampelidae to include waxwings, silky flycatchers, and palm-chats.
Silky Flycatchers (subfamily Ptilogonatinae) became modified to catch insects, and have specializations that roughly parallel those of the Tyrannid flycatchers.
It might be advisable to set up three subfamilies in the Bombycillidae, one for Bombycilla, one for Hypocolius, and a third for the silky flycatchers, Ptilogonys, Phainopepla and Phainoptila.
The characters in the diagnosis (page 478) of the family Bombycillidae are common features regarded as warranting a single family unit for the waxwings, silky flycatchers, and palm-chats.
The silky flycatchers, waxwings, and palm-chats are included in the family Bombycillidae; the Ptilogonatidae and Dulidae are reduced to subfamily rank.
She made a step forward, raised her arm, drew thesilky neck within her embrace, whispered a few words into the nervously alert ear, and the hour was won.
In a second the exquisite silky coat was a-blaze, and poor Tzaritza's joyous barks became cries of agony.
I hope they will have a happy time," said Mrs. Howland gently as she stroked back Polly's silky curls.
The somewhat silky fur is a reddish-brown on the upper parts, slightly paler beneath.
He is clad in a coat of soft, close, silky fur whose dark upper part pales to dirty yellowish-grey beneath, and his hairy feet and tail are flesh coloured.
She lives in a Castle in Spain"; sighed the calm, silky voice, with the odd break or rasp in it I knew so well.
Come to our beech-tree, now a vast indistinguishable tent of whispering, silky leaves, Fanny seated herself upon a jutting root, and I stood panting before her.
Before escaping from the pods, the small end of the seed contains a cluster of spreading silky hairs (coma) 2-3 cm.
Before escaping from the pods, the small end of the seed contains a cluster of spreading silky hairs.
The little ant-eater is not more than about twenty-one inches in length, has a shorter and more natural looking head, and fine silky fur.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "silky" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
