Sentence examples similar to war silver from inspiring English sources

It was dusk as we drove through the Fiesole woods in that enormous black vehicle, down a long gravel driveway bordered by conifer trees towards a villa with just the right amount of peeling stucco and faded geraniums in old stone pots, where the Contessa stood waiting to welcome us in her pre-war silver lame evening gown.

The war's silver lining, he thinks, could be its political impact on Lebanon.

Perl calls the decade after the war a Silver Age; he is in love with the moment, and he makes it glow.

"And I'm the Pa," exulted Mr. Murphy, a 62-year retiree who described a roustabout career from the Korean War to silver mining to pool shark.

Mid-zenith hangs the fascinated day In wind-lustrated hollows crystalline, A wan valkyrie whose wide pinions shine Across the ensanguined ruins of the fray, And in her hand swings high o'erhead, Above the waste of war, The silver torch-light of the evening star Wherewith to search the faces of the dead.

After the American Civil War, gold and silver extraction became more important.

During the war, gold and silver discoveries drew prospectors and later settlers into Oregon, Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, and Montana.

During the 1645-51 civil war, almost every silver and gold object in the country was melted down or smashed.

In the war on malaria, silver bullets inevitably morph into rubber ones: the parasite and its mosquitoes develop resistance to every miracle drug and pesticide that comes along.

Zombies would now be waging all-out war across the silver screen, a tradition that has endured for almost 40 years.

After he returned from the Vietnam War with a Silver Star and three Purple Hearts and joined the antiwar movement, Mr. Kerry was often skeptical of military spending, finding it bloated with pet projects or weapons systems that he said he thought would not work or were superfluous.