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  • adjective superlative form of silvery: most silvery.

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Examples

  • The blood of a dozen captured freights crieth to Heaven in silveriest accents against it.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • "Salaam!" purred Yasmini in her silveriest voice, as Ranjoor Singh strode down the middle of the room with the dignity the West may some day learn.

    The Winds of the World Talbot Mundy 1909

  • "Oh, you have come back!" she said, looking from one to the other, and for a moment seeming puzzled by the likeness; "and -- why, there are two of you," and the child broke into the merriest and silveriest of laughs.

    The Lord of Dynevor Evelyn Everett-Green 1894

  • And of all de silvery flutes and violins and pineannas and bells as ebber rung out for a wedding, dat truck did ring de silveriest t'rough my brain.

    Self-Raised Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859

  • "I have reason to be sad," at last replied the Dewdrop, in the quietest, mildest, silveriest voice imaginable, and trembling with an emotion real or pretended.

    The Story of a Dewdrop 1856

  • What silveriest cloud could hang 'neath such a sky?

    The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

  • Pattaquasset, though she was innocently busy with all pleasant things that came in her way, and the silveriest of tones called Mr. Linden's attention to them.

    Say and Seal, Volume II Susan Warner 1852

  • I have so many in Japan, when my old shell is too exhausted to move, and so permits my soul to wander where it will, a dream night, when the moon is its silveriest and biggest and I want to hug it for I know that twelve hours before it looked down on my loved ones, and now it comes to make more beautiful this fairy land, hiding the scars and ugly places, touching the pine trees with silver points, and glorifying the old Temples, till one wonders if they _could_ have been made by hands.

    The Lady of the Decoration Frances Little 1902

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