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Meanings of silvery sheen in English

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Usage of silvery sheen in English
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A thick, shaggy beard fell in a silvery sheen over his breast.
The Hunted Woman
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The light bounced back at me with a dull silvery sheen.
The devil's bones: a body farm novel
3
The cottage roofs are of shingle, buff-coloured and grey, with a silvery sheen.
From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
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Its headlights speared upward, imparting a silvery sheen to the mist.
Phantoms
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Frost gleamed upon the earth in a silvery sheen under the torches' smoky flames.
The Iron Furrow
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In the east, above the maple woods, was a silvery sheen that hinted the moonrise.
The Story Girl
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Presently he saw the silvery sheen of the mesquite when the sun is streaming westward.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
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A silvery sheen covers meadows where corncrakes and tree frogs call under a yellow moon.
The Irish Times
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The air had gone cool, and the approaching twilight gave the land a muted, silvery sheen.
The Black Unicorn
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The moon cast a silvery sheen over the extravagant carving on the veranda and window frames.
The blood spilt
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The moonlight shining through the casement fell in silvery sheen on a few feet of the floor.
In Kings' Byways
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Night fell and the moon rose and cast a silvery sheen over the surface of the water.
Glinda of Oz / In Which Are Related the Exciting Experiences of ...
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The gray day about him grew sweet; its very grayness was sweet, and of a silvery sheen.
What's Mine's Mine — Volume 1
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The sun came at last, and with such a silvery sheen, too, that the children were dazzled.
Crusoes of the Frozen North
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Everything was covered with a silvery sheen.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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The silvery sheen had disappeared now.
The dark side of the sun
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