I know exactly which mirrors in my house are soothingly cast in silvery shadow, and which cause me to bolt past, eyes averted from the blast of capillary-exposing reality.
Medical illustration developed hand-in-brush with the disciplines and methods of easel painting, so it's no surprise to see here the same stippling and chiaroscuro that, in other contexts, would be used to make the sylvan silvery or the steed puissant.
Sir John may have hair that is more silvery than ever, and his sky-blue tie shines like the sun on a tropical sea at daybreak, but he still brings a powerful whiff of the past.
He's 6ft 4in with a strikingly handsome face, a writerly beard and a thick mane of swept back silvery hair.
All intently watched their 43-year-old commander, a sturdy man with silvery hair from Little Rock, Ark., who had driven in especially from the battalion headquarters to bolster their spirits and their courage.
This confronts visitors as they stand on the steps of the old "wedding cake" Parliament House to take in the vista of clipped lawn and silvery lake, across to the Australian War Memorial, Australia's foremost secular shrine.
The airport is fringed with abandoned Mercs and Beemers, many with maxed-out credit cards taped to the windscreens...The presumption of building a five-minute city to vie with Paris or New York by copying the coloured shapes is stupid, dangerous and wrong...Dubai is a beautiful parable - as beautiful as those silvery buildings rising from the dust, and as ephemeral.
Few of them, canoeing in the Masurian lakes or sprawled on silvery Baltic beaches, bothered with the details of a crisis package pushed through the cabinet this week by their new finance minister, Grzegorz Kolodko.
The plant was small, with spiny, silvery leaves, woody stems and blue flowers.
Mr Harding writes of the way the ocean fog "poured across fairways…salting everything in a cold mist", and of the "liquid, silvery" phrase of birdsong, "so limpid it seemed without a source".
