I knew not then that the silver chord was already severed, and the veil lifted from the pale face of grief, never again in mercy to lend its secrecy.
Wouldn’t the Madame give all her fine dresses, and silver and goold too, for my health and strength or yours?
In fact, her thoughts were again far away, and scarcely to be recalled by the tempting nature of the repast or the magnificence of the solid silver and rare old china.
He snapped at her with a short, sharp bark, and, laughing, she took up another piece with a silver fork, and silently offered it.
Just bring the darling’s silver bells, and a pink ribbon to tie them with.
Kathleen came in at that moment bearing a tempting little repast upon a silver waiter, which she set down before her mistress.
As the door closed on her solicitor, the Madame lifted a tiny silver bell from the table at her side and tapped it lightly.
Perhaps it was my persuaders,” said the boy, lifting his boot and exhibiting a huge Mexican spur, ornamented with little silver bells, which tinkled musically as he moved his feet about.
Hark, hark, I hear the silver trumpet sound, It summons me from off this bloody ground.
He need not hesitate to employ Bessemer's gold and silver paints, with discretion, and the two sides of the screen can be done in different ways.
What is described as a silver coin, afterwards lost, was found with this pipe.
How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succor us that succor want!
Now hath fair Phoebe with her silverface Thrice seen the shadows of this nether world, Sith last I left that honorable place, In which her royal presence is enrolled.
The burglar sells at the same time his own skill and courage and my silver plate (the whole at the most moderate figure) to a Jew receiver.
When the two slim lads had gone, he let himself fall wearily into a tall, carved chair that was placed near an ebony table with silver feet in the middle of the room.
And in all the week that followed that unearthlysilver music was with me, infinitely soothing and solacing.
And drawing from his breast a little silver box, he proceeded to perform the last rites upon the body from which the soul was already fled.
Thigh-boots encased his legs; sword and dagger hung in the silver carriages at his belt; his handsome, aquiline face was very solemn.
Her robe was of cloth of silver and of a dazzling sheen, and it hung closely to her lissom, virginal form, defining every line and curve of it; and by the chaste beauty of her I was moved to purest ecstasy of awe and worship.
It was as a sound of silver bells, and yet it was not quite that.
Behind us the moon hung a silver bow almost on the horizon.
What mattered the well-meaning propriety, what the honorable privilege of the guild overcome through generations to the young man tempted by the gold and silver mines of Mexico and Potosi?
Gold and silver were already used for ornament and decoration, and must have been far more precious than copper and bronze.
The pieces of armor found in the bogs of Sleswick--a long iron sword, a coat of mail, a silver helmet, etc.
There is a recent contrivance by Major Rhodes, to be seen at Silver and Co.
The operation is more sure to succeed if the jewels are put into a silver tube with rounded ends, for silver does not irritate.
If they wanted to come and dine with him on inexpensive vegetables, he would gladly himself superintend the polishing of his few pieces of silver and the setting of his cheap table.
Maecenas reached for the silver ladle and slowly filled his cup once more from the mixing-bowl before replying.
As he lay and watched the silverbloom spread over the sand dunes, he felt suddenly a great terror.
In the woods above him chestnut and walnut trees showed vividly against the silver olives.
Its beauty, whether of silver Nile or lilac mountains or tawny desert, enervated by its appeal to the love of easy delight, and bred mad, vagrant thoughts, precursors of moral disaster.
Above her right shoulder hung a silver cage containing a little bird which chirped and twittered in silly ignorance of its mistress's mood.
His loin-cloth is decorated with a beautiful quatrefoil pattern; he wears a silver ear-ornament, silver rings on the neck and the upper arm, and on the wrist a bracelet with an agate gem.
Also he set therein a vineyard teeming plenteously with clusters, wrought fair in gold; black were the grapes, but the vines hung throughout on silver poles.
Its framework was of ivory, which had originally been overlaid with thin gold plate, and it was covered with a mosaic of strips and discs of rock-crystal, which in their turn had been backed alternately with silver and blue enamel paste.
This was the fresco-painting, preserved almost perfectly in its upper part, of a youth bearing a gold-mounted silver cup (Plate VI.
A pond just behind his father's garden had its legend of a maiden who rose from its waters each midnight, bearing a silver bowl.
Below them came four large medallions, set among crystal bars backed with silver plate, and then eleven bars of ribbed crystal and ivory, alternating with one another.
He put in the news that I wore silver buttons; which was false, for they were but alchemy.
The mermaids, the dolphins, the little sea-horses sported in the wake of these vessels, leaving a long line of foam and silver as they sped on.
Marian Manville Pope A Foreword The Pastel City by the Sea There is a hill-crowned city by a silver sea, near a Golden Gate.
Then come the Evening Mists, followed by the Star Dance and Luna, goddess of the Silver crescent.
One sees turquoise green domes floating in a silver-moated ether, long colonnades of glacial ice columns leading to regions beyond, where quiet silver pools throw back the mirrored glories.
Perhaps the strangest thing of all was the readiness with which Australian silver was accepted.
In the distance the moon rose grand and full, illuminating the scene with itssilver rays, and blending its pale shimmer with the ruddy flames.
The festoons of her robe of silver gauze were fastened up with diamond buttons, and beneath appeared a green robe embroidered with silver.
The generals--the officers dressed in the gold and silver embroidered uniforms--stood around the room with bared heads; in their midst stood the stranger with the dusty boots.
Even the book he had been reading that morning lay upon the table in front of the sofa; beside it stood the same silver candlesticks, with the same half-burnt candles.
The chandelier that hung from the ceiling lighted her lovely face, and made the gold and silver embroidered robes and jewels of her mother sparkle brilliantly.
The Cossacks, at a sign from the adjutants, sprang from the floor and drew from a corner of the room a number of bottles and silver cups, which they hastened to place upon the table.
This star, which had thrown its silver veil over his most beautiful and sacred remembrances, over his young life of liberty and love, this star was Amelia.
Already was seen around her mouth those yellow, treacherous lines which vanished years imprint upon the face; already her brow was marked with light lines, and silver threads glimmered in her hair.
An old soldier, with silver hair, and the scars of many wounds upon his face, approached the king.
In brief, the lady journalist is the silver mounting of the newspaper staff.
As a coup d'oil the swan, resting on a great silver dish, carried to the table by two servitors, could scarcely have been surpassed even by the classical peacock or the mediaeval boar's head.
It sounds large in pence, to be sure, but when you think of it from the standard of the silver currency it doesn't seem so formidable.
I had not believed there was so much gold and silver in Sweden," he said.
Then Sigurd asked to be shown the treasure; "And they tell me, Gunnar, that you have more than gold and silverwith you.
They said that they had many victims whom they were anxious to dispose of, and not much gold or silver at any rate, and none which they could spare.
Farewell Rollins, wery appropriate to his business as it turned out--in letters that they was modelled after silver screws.
A red spot as large as a silver dime painted upon a feather shows the wearer to have been wounded by a bullet.
The second post is also painted red, but has scattered over its entire surface spots of white clay, each of about the size of a silver quarter of a dollar, symbolical of the mī´gis shell.
Only this," answered the Koli, "that Government will grant me the exclusive privilege of roofing my house with silver tiles.
Some of the dishes had evidently been put away in a hurry, for silver spoons and forks had been left in them.
We then partook of some of the cold meat and fine white bread which the pantry had furnished; and, while we thus regaled ourselves, we debated what we should do with the silver forks and spoons.
Thither did the lost one stray: upon the margin of that water did she hover like the ghost of one who had sought repose beneath that silver surface;--and, oh!
Ellen really felt grateful to the selfish harridan; and having changed her gold for silver coin at a shop where she stopped to buy provisions, she counted ten shillings in the withered and sinewy hand which the hag thrust forth.
Even the chimneys and gables of the squalid houses of Globe Town appeared to bathe their heads in that flood of silver light.
We next proceeded to open the bundle, which I found to contain a quantity of food, six silver forks, and six spoons.
In Bethnal Green, a place inhabited by the poorest of the poor is denominated Silver Street; and, in the same district, a filthy thoroughfare is christened Pleasant Street.
A bowl of chrystal water, containing gold and silver fish, stood upon a table in the recess of the casement.
The stranger pointed as he spoke to a very handsome phaeton and pair at a little distance, and attended by a dapper-looking servant in light blue livery with silver lace.
Why, I have been a reveller, and at my cloth of silver suit and my long stocking, in my time, and will be again Hor.
GARD, guard, trimming, gold or silver lace, or other ornament.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "silver" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
