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Meanings of silver-lace in English
Shrubby perennial of the Canary Islands having white flowers and leaves and hairy stems covered with dustlike down; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum.
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Examples for "dusty miller"
Examples for "dusty miller"
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From left to right, ivy geranium, snapdragon, geranium and dusty miller]
2
Sometimes one still came upon him in dusty miller's clothes, giving his man a day off.
3
Small insects of night gathered, and at last a little dusty miller, but nothing came of any size.
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The dusty miller was scratching his head in puzzled wonder at just the minute Dick arrived on the scene.
5
Look at him, just look at him, Looizy, sweating himself a day like this, over a common dusty miller.
Usage of silver-lace in English
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The strawberry crop is meager, half-choked by a tangle of silver-lace vine.
2
The rippling current was shining like silver-lace, and, by contrast, the brown earthy strip that rose vertically above it, could be observed more distinctly.
3
I like that fashion best, and two silver-laced hats for the above servants.
4
My Papa's large silver-gilt shoe-buckles for H., and red silver-laced saddle-cloth.
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Even the silver-laced porter had retired from the freezing vestibule.
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The usual equipages, with their gold and silver-laced attendants, were nowhere to be seen.
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Ray looked at me in shocked disbelief as I tore his heart into silver-laced confetti.
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From the heights over there my husband has just seen the silver-laced hats and the muskets of the gendarmerie.
9
He was handsomely dressed in a dark-blue velvet coat, silver-laced, a long white satin vest and black satin breeches.
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Only... his hands fanned on my bare lower back and tilted my strong, silver-laced, satin-clad pelvic bones against his.
11
MacLean looked with whimsical anxiety at several white particles upon his suit of fine cloth, claret-colored and silver-laced, and quickened his pace.
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That same evening a gorgeous silver-laced heyduke might have been seen looking for Master Boltay's workshop, and making inquiries for Alexander Barna.
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He put his faith in a recusant priest-oneJohn Ballard-whogoes ruffling about as Captain Fortescue in velvet hose and a silver-laced cloak.
14
He followed her mechanically to a bedroom, where was a bright fire, and a fine shirt, and his silver-laced suit of clothes airing.