When the chief captain of the temple police was seen to approach stealthily, a man whose long, silvery beard descended upon his breast, and in whose eyes burned the fire of desert suns cried out: "Seest thou these men?
He was a tall man, and his beard descended upon his breast in waves of silvery whiteness.
Annas uttered these words in a low, smooth voice, drawing his long silvery beard through his delicate fingers and looking keenly from under his half-closed eyelids at the dark, eager face before him.
At the top was a flat, spear-shaped piece of light-coloured silvery metal, with three points or prongs instead of one.
He placed it on his outstretched palm, and again were heard the clear, silvery notes of the little gongs.
Into the open part, one of Mars' two moons was peeping, throwing down a warm, mellow light, very different from the pale silvery beams of our own moon.
Very still and mild it was, wrapped in a great, white, brooding silence--a silence which was yet threaded through with many little silvery sounds which you could hear if you hearkened as much with your soul as your ears.
The moon rose in the silvery sky, empearling the clouds around her.
In the morgue-like silence her silvery voice rang with startling clearness.
The massive columns, silvery in the bright moonlight, were covered with inscriptions and outline drawings, crudely made in hieroglyphic art.
Alicia peals a delicious silvery laugh and then I see a film as of tears in her eyes.
Joanna with her silvery eyes now lay somewhere at the bottom of the Atlantic.
Among the scattered rocks are patches of shell-strewn sand on which the surf falls in silvery cascades as the tide comes rolling landward.
The abbey ruin and church, always the dominating feature of East Cliff, stand out clearly against the silvery horizon and present a totally different aspect from that which impressed us last evening.
The lake lies still and blue as the heavens above, and beyond its shining expanse rise the snow-capped forms of the Swiss Alps, their rugged ranks standing sharply against the silvery horizon.
The green wooded vales lying between the bold, barren hills, with here a church-tower or country mansion and there a glint of tarn or river, all combine to make an entrancing scene which stretches clear and distinct to the silvery horizon.
It roughly follows the coast, though there are only occasional glimpses of the sea which to-day, half shrouded in a silvery haze, shimmers in the subdued sunlight.
The Seine becomes silvery to the American conjuring up that bright summer morning when Robert Fulton started from the Place de la Concorde in the first steam boat.
As they sail overhead, with every now and then a descent to the water to secure a frog or small fish, their silvery wings stand out boldly from a dark cloud on the southern horizon.
Each is black with a conspicuous silvery shaft, which renders it a thing of unusual beauty.
The Deadwater is a curving silvery thread in a black setting of peat-moss.
The burly fishermen stride about in their oilskin coats, plentifully besprinkled with silvery scales, and glittering in the morning sunlight.
The narrow streak of gleaming water which made a silvery line across Deadwater Bog has now taken toll of wide lands-- "The struggling rill insensibly has grown Into a brook of loud and stately march, Crossed ever and anon by plank and arch.
So they stand with their limbs enlacing, Nymph and mortal, upon this shore, He forever a vine embracing Her a silvery sycamore.
Now golden celandine Is hairy hung with silvery sacks of seeds.
I know not what her word may mean, I know not what may mean the voices She sends as messengers serene, That through the silvery silence lean, To tell me where her heart rejoices.
It was a pure white star that sent down a veil of silvery radiance.
Slipping down from the boulder, I made my way round, just in time to see scores of beautiful silvery fish, exactly like English grayling in shape, dart away from under the tree out into the deep water.
And if there isn't a moon, we will set to work by the light of the silvery lantern, I reckon!
Wee silvery fish, who nobly braves The dangers o’ the ocean waves While monsters from the unknown caves Make thee their prey; Escaping which the human knaves On thee lig way.
And then matters were relieved by the silvery voice of Cintilla.
He himself would not mix with it, under the cedars there, but would finish his cigar with his arms crossed on this ledge of clean stone balustrade, all silvery with lichens in the moonlight, where he would see and not be seen.
As we neared the mouth of the well-known salmon-stream where we intended making our camp, we noticed jets and flashes of silvery light caused by the startled movement of the salmon that were on their way to their spawning-grounds.
Wrangell Island came into view beneath a lovely rosy sky, all the forest down to the water's edge silvery gray with a dusting of snow.
Perhaps in less than half an hour the silvery material was gathered, condensed, and welded into a glowing, evenly proportioned arc like the first and in the same part of the sky.
On we sped over the silvery level, close alongshore.
The faint silvery warblings heard over the partially bare and moist fields from the bluebird, the song sparrow, and the red-wing, as if the last flakes of winter tinkled as they fell!
I know not the hour of my awakening, yet it greatly heartened me to be greeted by the sight of a nearly full moon, and to observe how the clear silvery light flooded the rocks, revealing the winding path leading upward.
And between these groves stretched what seemed to be little silvery lakes, with the reflection of the great mountains in them.
Seconds passed as he stood listening to the roar of the wind in the tree tops, heedless of the fine powdering of stinging snow particles that glistened like diamond points upon his silvery hair and sifted beneath his shirt collar.
The smile had faded from the clean-cut lips of the priest, and Sister Mercedes noted a touch of sadness in the voice, as she watched a slanting ray of sunlight play for a moment upon the thinning, silvery hair.
But as they drove their canoes ashore on the little, silvery beach below the green knoll where the pennant fluttered, Bess could find in her heart no complaint.
Polly, smiling, held up a long withe on which wriggled at least two dozen silvery fish.
Across the field could be seen the silvery wings of the Mortlake aeroplane.
And that second craft--its silvery sheen betrayed it--was the Mortlake Cobweb, as Roy had called it.
But Mortlake himself did not take up the silvery aeroplane on this occasion.
Then suddenly--as if a recollection of Peggy's mischievous flight of a few days previously had occurred to him--Mortlake swung the delicate silvery machine about and dashed straight down at the boy and girl standing by the garden gate.
The silvery aeroplane was rushing through the atmosphere at a great rate.
So fast were they traveling that by this time they could plainly make out the ocean, which, from a silvery streak, was now changed into a dark-blue rolling expanse of salt water.
All at once a silvery peal of child's laughter came from within the house, and little Sunlocks dropped the barley cake from his mouth to listen.
I've heard hissilvery voice, though," said Sunlocks.
A light breeze rose, and gradually the tops of the rushes began to shine, and the leafage before, beside, and above her to glitter in the silvery light.
A web of shimmering silvery radiance covered the edges of every island, and suddenly the brilliant full moon was reflected in argent lustre like a magnificent quivering column upon the surface of the water, now rippled by the evening breeze.
The silvery globe stretched from the base almost to the tops of the trees.
Nothing can be prettier than the crags of Provence; they are beautifully modelled, as painters say, and they have a delightful silvery color.
It is true that this bareness results in a kind of silvery whiteness of complexion, which carries out the tone of the quiet pools and even that of the scanty and shadeless park.
