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Definition of Silkening
1. silken [v] - See also: silken
Lexicographical Neighbors of Silkening
Literary usage of Silkening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of Howitt, Milman, and Keats by Mary Botham Howitt, Henry Hart Milman, John Keats (1853)
"All thy bright glittering of fantastic dews With their thin tissue silkening the
green meads, And all thy music of blithe leaves that dance In the caressing ..."
2. The Poetical Works of the Rev: H. H. Milman by Henry Hart Milman (1840)
"All thy bright glittering of fantastic dews With their thin tissue silkening the
green meads, And all thy music of blithe leaves that dance In the caressing ..."
3. The British poets, including translations by British poets (1822)
"... if your sheep are of Silurian breed, Nightly to house them dry on fern or
straw, silkening their fleeces. Ye nor rolling hut Nor watchful dog require, ..."
4. The Rural Poetry of the English Language: Illustrating the Seasons and by Joseph William Jenks (1856)
"... among the whistling winde : Or, if your sheep are of Silurian breed, Nightly
to heuse them dry on fern or straw, silkening their ..."
5. A Prairie Prayer, and Other Poems by Hilton Ross Greer (1912)
"bides: Grey ruin, grey dreams, and, deepening every side, Grey sunset shadows,
silkening to dusk. Yonder, clear-limned against a brooding sky, Vibrant, ..."
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