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Silkily

adverb
1.
In a silky manner.  "'Darling,' she said silkily"





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"Silkily" Quotes from Famous Books



... In his slim boating-attire his figure looked heroic. His hair, rising from the parting to the right of his forehead, in what his admiring Lady Blandish called his plume, fell away slanting silkily to the temples across the nearly imperceptible upward curve of his brows there—felt more than seen, so slight it was—and gave to his profile a bold beauty, to which his bashful, breathless air was ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... We heard Vincent silkily sympathetic. Would they, he asked, repeat their assertions in public—before a vast public? Only let Vincent give them a chance, and the Planet, they vowed, should ring with their wrongs. Their aim in life—two women and ...
— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling


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