silky-looking

• “The sun rose over a monotonous plain covered with grass, rank, high, and silky-looking, blown before the breeze into long, shiny waves.”

  The Englishwoman in America

• “The robe was silky-looking like lingerie, and his fantasy about her without panties and bra arose again.”

  Male Wanted

• “I saw a hat on a shelf; its brim was covered with small silky-looking brown and beige feathers.”

  Borrowed Finery, A Memoir

• “Her face was pale beneath her piled'up, silky-looking gray hair.”

  Borrowed Finery, A Memoir

• “His hair, like the gypsy boy's, wasn't long by modern standards, but it was dark as the boy's, and long enough and silky-looking enough to make her itch to run her hands through it.”

  Children Of The Night

• “He was hand­some, pale, his hair brownish and silky-looking.”

  The Old Silent

• “The ether allowed to evaporate will leave the corrosive sublimate in white silky-looking prisms.”

  Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

• “The white laces of Chantilly much resemble Lille, having the same fine, clear ground and a thick, silky-looking thread outlining the pattern.”

  Chats on Old Lace and Needlework

• “From it floated a silky-looking veil of gray-white, which gave her face that airy, cloud-like setting that photographers of the baser sort so passionately admire.”

  Queed

• “The girl was dressed in brown -- one of these smooth, half-shiny, silky-looking affairs with lace collar and cuffs, and what I believe they call an accordion-plaited skirt.”

  Whirligigs

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