silverly

(ˈsɪlvəlɪ)

adv

1. (Colours) resembling silver

2. with a clear, metallic sound

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sil′ver•ly

(ˈsɪl vər li)

adv.

with a silvery look or sound.

[1585–95]

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One June evening, when the orchards were pink blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake of Shining Waters, and the air was full of the savor of clover fields and balsamic fir woods, Anne was sitting by her gable window.

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The same "silverly blue" gun was used in both raids.

NAE DANGER! Be quiet. Fill this bag with money or I will shoot you in the face. Chop, chop.. Brave bookie forces armed thug to flee empty-handed by daring him to pull trigger

oh what sweetest of silverly notes waft up to my ears.

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Now, seven years' worth of tree and bush growth on the building's west and north sides have softened the silverly blandness.

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But if a poet will not bring us closer to an understanding of lines that, in Keats's words, "leave the dinned air vibrating silverly," who will?