(4 quotes found)
“In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; / In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Because there were all kinds of hell - some were black and dirty, and some were silvery and high.”
Mark Helprin
“[The confetti that 30 minutes earlier had exploded from the ceiling in a silvery rain now lay in clumps on the bleachers. Caroline Kennedy had left with her two daughters. Uma Thurman had come and gone. Robert Duffy, the business partner of Marc Jacobs, stood on the littered runway. He remarked that there were things in Mr. Jacobs's show on Monday night that he had first seen him attempt at the start of his career.] But 15 or 18 years ago we had no money for beautiful fabrics, for embroidery, ... We had, like, five pairs of shoes for a whole show.”
Robert Duffy
“Last week, two watermelon growers called me describing a silvery-whitish cast to the crowns of the melons, that ran along the row. When I inspected the fields, I could see no signs of any disease that would cause a problem like this.”
Tim Baker