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silkily

adv. In a silky manner.

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silkily

adv. in a silky manner; "the young wheat shone silkily"; "`Darling,' she said silkily"

Usage examples of "silkily".

He was used to death in all its forms, from starvation during the appalling famines of 1315 and 1316, to those killed by swords and axes during the attacks of the trail bastons four years ago, but this little figure, whose hair tumbled silkily from beneath the cloth, seemed still more sad than all those.

The enticingly slender nose, the elegant cheekbones, and the delicate structure of her winsome face in its entirety were admirable enough to bestir the heart of many of his gender, but it was her large, silkily lashed dark eyes, slanting ever-so-slightly upward beneath gracefully sweeping brows, that revived images of the young, gangly sprite she had once been.

Her erect nipples teased the hard muscles of his chest, and her full breasts moved silkily against him as her hands gently stroked his back.

With her fine, porcelain skin, silkily lashed dark eyes, and softly curving mouth, she put to shame all the painted doxies he had ever sampled in London.

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 a flattering charm.

As far as the other element that frequented cop shops, he could still slide in, silkily though, to that dangerous group.

Naismith extended his hand, felt it slide silkily off the bobble, felt the characteristic blood-warm heat - the reflection of his hand's thermal radiation.