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    Use "silken" in a sentence

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    silken


    1. Her silken voice, honey-sweet, helped smooth over the spikes of rage


    2. Pottery vases and dishes trailing ribbons and silken cord stood before effigies of tulips and lilies in pink, white and turquoise behind rows of ornate glassware balanced on the shelves


    3. In the dream the Paint she saw was on a hill over-looking the main herd, and the wind was blowing hard, and the silken longhaired horse was reveling in the cool breeze


    4. Without thinking she raised her hand and began to stroke his chest, running her fingers thru the silken hair


    5. Within the room, Brontes rested on a mattress covered in silken red sheets


    6. He wrapped one hand around her silken hair, lifting her mouth to his


    7. Rorten and Eleisha had joined forces, along with Lady Miranda – short and slim with bright blue eyes and silken black hair – she came with over four hundred soldiers in all


    8. The woman was Torvellen, typically tall and slender with large dark eyes, honey-brown skin and long silken black hair in thin braids tied with coloured beads


    9. Gorgeous State umbrellas, enormous kinkassies or wardrums, brass-studded chairs, beautifully carved stools, European and native swords, native spears, Ashanti daggers and knives, executioners' blades and torture instruments, brass studded cases, leather fetish caps, silken and cotton cloths, execution stools with recent blood stains, valuable old English chinaware, common table knives, large glass vases, carved wooden sandals, silk and gingham pillows of down and soft cotton, a few tusks, ivory pieces for playing “po” and drafts, a few bottles of brandy, common blunderbusses, old flint locks, a few Sniders, and so on ad infinitum


    10. short skirts of silken gauze, in which golden sparkles appeared as they

    11. Every rifle from fort and entrenchment blazed at once at the silken globe; the artillery re-opened, and bullets and shells poured through the tree-tops, dealing death and destruction among the men in the crowded trail


    12. In single rooms fifty persons were sheltered, ladies in silken robes and beggars in rags


    13. The younger man remained outside of the silken ropes of the actual lineup; but came up to proffer his dad a cup of coffee from the courtesy urn by the window


    14. Turning, she saw her hostess dressed in silken pants with a colorful floral top and a scarf about her neck, the ends of which flowed over her shoulder on the light breeze


    15. I closed my eyes at the silken caress, soft and hard at once


    16. Standing once more in his own palatial rooms, he pulled the drawer open and removed the folded, silken rabbit skin from its depths


    17. But at the far end of the silken ropes that would have been appropriate in a museum or a bank, there was a space he could easily get through


    18. The biggest was a v-shaped formation, which looked like a club, due to the striped colours of their knee-length silken t-shirts


    19. Princess Constance wept in a chair, silken tresses covering her face, wet and slick with tears


    20. I let the water fold me in its silken arms

    21. Una went into the closet and shut the door, went down on her knees and pressed her face against the soft silken folds


    22. that?” said Tifa softly, the long fringe of her silken hair hiding one


    23. He pushed away the lock of silken hair from her face and gave her one more hard, searching kiss


    24. A silken strand tethers you to the tack


    25. Silken in the arms of the other, together they are one gorgeous struggle Off I go, with this I’m right


    26. Their eyes met as he continued his ministrations over her silken


    27. He laughed, and his laughter was like the purr of a sword sliding from a silken sheath


    28. Most of them were half naked, but the garments they wore were fine; gold-braided jackets, satin girdles, silken breeches, tattered, stained with tar and blood, vied with pieces of silver-chased armor


    29. In her chamber whose ceiling was a lapis lazuli dome, whose marble floor was littered with rare furs, and whose walls were lavish with golden friezework, ten girls, daughters of nobles, their slender limbs weighted with gem-crusted armlets and anklets, slumbered on velvet couches about the royal bed with its golden dais and silken canopy


    30. But princess Yasmela lolled not on that silken bed

    31. Thus objurgated, Yasmela allowed the girl to garb her in the light sleeveless silk shirt, over which was slipped a silken tunic, bound at the waist by a wide velvet girdle


    32. Wrapping a voluminous silken cloak about her lithe figure and donning a velvet cap from which depended a filmy veil, she passed hurriedly through the corridors and approached a bronze door where a dozen spearmen gaped at her as she passed through


    33. Its rider, under the silken canopy of the seat, was a slim, silk-clad figure, at the sight of which the populace, always mindful of royalty, threw up its leather cap and cheered wildly


    34. But a clean tanging wind bellied her silken sail, and as a wild swan cleaves the sky to her nest, she sped seaward, flames mounting higher and higher from her deck to lick at the mast and envelop the figure that lay lapped in scarlet on the shining pyre


    35. But they had not crossed the first chamber on their new route, when the rustle of a silken hanging brought them about suddenly


    36. From it depended a silken cord


    37. ‘A connoisseurs choice Madame…I’m sure that you will derive much pleasure from these unique creations!…’ He placed the boxes in a silken bag bearing the Company logo and offered this deferentially to her


    38. She shook off the silken swathings and held it up—the head of a young man, the features frozen in a convulsion as if death had come in the midst of inhuman agony


    39. Jehungir clapped his hands, and an impassive Kushite eunuch, an image of shining ebony in silken pantaloons, bowed before him and went to do his bidding


    40. Chunder Shan, struggling frantically to his feet, saw the man poise an instant on the sill in a flutter of silken skirts and white limbs that was his royal captive, and heard his fierce, exultant snarl: 'Now dare to hang my men!' and then Conan leaped to the parapet and was gone

    41. Her cloth-of-gold slippers were in tatters, her robes and silken under-garments torn to shreds that scarcely held together decently


    42. With a deep bow he gave into her hands a small leathern bag, and drew about her shoulders a silken cloak


    43. With dead hands fumbling his silken coat;


    44. Instead of a skirt she wore short, wide-legged silk breeches, which ceased a hand's breadth short of her knees, and were upheld by a wide silken sash worn as a girdle


    45. Then for a space there was no sound in the chamber except the whistle and crackle of hard-woven silken cords on naked flesh


    46. He arranged me on a couch and pulled in front of me the table made of silken pale yellow wood grained like bird’s eyes


    47. Yet there they were—gold breast-plates set with concentric circles of small gems, gilded sandals, and a short silken skirt upheld by a jeweled girdle


    48. The body still lay as he had first seen it, silent, motionless, in breast-plates of jeweled gold, gilded sandals and silken skirt


    49. There was a soft silken breeze here, it carried the scent of the forest and fields and I saw spiders float by on wings of their own webbing


    50. Now through the yelling, cursing lines rode the lords of the conquerors—Strabonus, with his broad dark face and crafty eyes; Amalrus, slender, fastidious, treacherous, dangerous as a cobra; and the lean vulture Tsotha-lanti, clad only in silken robes, his great black eyes glittering from a face that was like that of a bird of prey














































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    Synonyms for "silken"

    satiny silken silklike silky sleek slick luxurious

    "silken" definitions

    having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light