silvern

• One of the few rational things I have met with, Eleanor, in the works of your very objectionable pet Mr. Carlyle—though indeed his style is too intolerable to have allowed me to read much—is the remark that 'speech is silver'—'silvern' he calls it, pedantically—'while silence is golden At this point of the sermon, Lillian fled from the room, to my extreme disgust. —  Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet
• Speech may be silvern, but silence is surely golden The barrister solemnly unfolded the paper, and Smith faded from the room. —  The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective
• His hair was now silvern, but it still curled in the old places, and his gestures had apparently not aged at all Mr and Mrs Orgreave were going to London for the Jubilee celebrations. —  Clayhanger
• And therefore the sprite is called Blessed to this day, which in Latin is Benedict Thus was ULLMANN born, who was the first who ever sold music; and, whereas before his time music was only iron or silvern, after he took it up it became golden--very fine, and ra-ther ex-pen-sive. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
• Speech is silvern, Silence is golden; Speech is human, Silence is divine Silence has been called the father of speech. —  The Art of Public Speaking

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