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  • Star-Born One, this mysterious deity, as bestial-conducted as the black and kinky-headed and monkey-like human beasts who worshipped it, and whose silver-sweet, bull-mouthed singing and commanding he had heard at the taboo distance for so long?

    THE RED ONE 2010

  • And silver-sweet the village bells o'er mount and valley toll'd,

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various

  • May this great game go on forever, serene in its power to bring out the best that is in us, and when the Great Bugler sounds the silver-sweet call of taps for all too many, there will still be those who in their turn will answer the call of reveille to carry on the traditions of the great day that was ours.

    Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball William Hanford Edwards

  • A long note and a shower of silver-sweet echoes, so it ran, the invisible singer seeming to sing for himself alone.

    Diane of the Green Van Leona Dalrymple

  • "How silver-sweet sound lovers tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears!"

    The Doctor's Daughter [pseud.] Vera

  • One, this mysterious deity, as bestial-conducted as the black and kinky-headed and monkeylike human beasts who worshiped it, and whose silver-sweet, bull-mouthed singing and commanding he had heard at the tabu-distance for so long?

    The Red One 1918

  • Star-Born One, this mysterious deity, as bestial-conducted as the black and kinky-headed and monkey-like human beasts who worshipped it, and whose silver-sweet, bull-mouthed singing and commanding he had heard at the taboo distance for so long?

    The Red One 1918

  • QUOTATION: How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night,

    Quotations 1919

  • The love-dialogues of Romeo and Juliet, those silver-sweet sounds of lovers’ tongues by night; the more intimate and sacred sweetness of nuptial colloquy between an Othello or a Posthumus with their married wives, all those delicacies which are so delightful in the reading, as when we read of those youthful dalliances in Paradise—As beseem’d

    On the Tragedies of Shakspere Considered with Reference to Their Fitness for Stage Representation 1909

  • "Thanksgiving should be celebrated in the spring," said Anne one evening to Marilla, as they sat on the front door steps and listened to the silver-sweet chorus of the frogs.

    Anne of Avonlea 1909

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