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Example sentences for "silver and"

  • The wealth of Croesus had enabled him to lay up almost inexhaustible stores of food and clothing, as well as treasures of silver and gold.

  • There were also many other smaller presents, such as basins, vases, and statues, all of silver and gold, and of the most costly workmanship.

  • Waxen full of heavenly zeal, King Abenner made a sturdy assault on the idols, wrought of silver and gold, that were within his palace, and tore them down to the ground.

  • Ceylon, like the continent of India, produces no silver and gold, save in the scantiest quantities.

  • Thou shalt be dearer to me than the mountains of silver and gold.

  • But the third said, "Silver and gold do not move me, I will not renounce my chance of fortune, perhaps something better still will be given me.

  • The tradition which records the existence of a silver and of a gold image, cannot be dismissed as unfounded, because it meets with a certain amount of corroboration by other data.

  • Human faces, of silver and mosaic, on necklace of statue, 265.

  • The wainscoting is of silver and gold, and a perfume breathes through it more exquisite than the perfume of Lebanon.

  • The third division is built of silver and gold.

  • Now give me the boy, that we may slay him before evil comes upon us from him, and I will give thee thy house full of silver and gold in exchange for him.

  • He descanted upon the delicious clime, the luxuriant soil, the populous cities, the architectural splendor of the edifices, and the inexhaustible mines of silver and of gold.

  • Even the mind of De Soto was so far in accord with these infamous doctrines of a benighted age, that he allowed his troopers to plunder the temple of all its rich treasures of silver and of gold.

  • They brought a countless treasure of silver and of gold.

  • And here they run in debt apace, and there again they pay, For they thought to have great profit and increase manifold, And whatso they should desire, goods of silver and of gold.

  • Here I deliver you my land, all my silver and all my gold, and all my treasures--your worship is the greater.

  • But if thou lovest Ygaerne, thou shouldest hold it secret, and send her soon of silver and of gold, and love her with art, and with loving behest.

  • Now king Antiochus was going through the higher countries, and he heard that the city of Elymais in Persia, was greatly renowned, and abounding in silver and gold, 6:2.

  • That hoard up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and there is no end of their getting?

  • And how great things they had done in the land of Spain, and that they had brought under their power the mines of silver and of gold that are there, and had gotten possession of all the place by their counsel and patience: 8:4.

  • Now Ptolemee, the son of Abobus, was appointed captain in the plain of Jericho, and he had abundance of silver and gold.

  • And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.

  • Silver and gold of equal coining value are, therefore, as to weight always in the ratio of 16 to 1.

  • Silver and gold, step by step, often making little progress in a century, became the staple and dominant forms of money in the world, while copper and nickel still continued to be used for the smaller monetary pieces.

  • What fairy bowers of some Northern Undine are suggested in those sudden flashes of silver and green!

  • Her swarthy brown limbs were covered to above the calf with rings of silver and gilt, and her arms were similarly decked.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    advance from; animal intelligence; course they; dirty work; marry thee; not appear; numerous company; scientific discovery; silver bell; silver bowl; silver certificates; silver chloride; silver coin; silver coinage; silver coins; silver dish; silver dollars; silver fork; silver knife; silver medal; silver money; silver penny; silver ring; silvery white; true virtue; would hardly