Lexicographical Neighbors of Silverpoints
Literary usage of Silverpoints
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pageant by Charles Hazelwood Shannon, Gleeson White (1896)
"... or to the title-page of silverpoints, or to still earlier books for which he
is responsible, to find absolutely new arrangements of older motives. ..."
2. Letters by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas James Wise, Edmund Gosse (1919)
"... and most of all by some silverpoints of women's heads, by Leonardo da Vinci,
to which he announced his intention of dedicating a cycle of sonnets. ..."
3. The Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1919)
"... and most of all by some silverpoints of women's heads, by Leonardo da Vinci,
to which he announced his intention of dedicating a cycle of sonnets. ..."
4. Poetica Erotica: A Collection of Rare and Curious Amatory Verse by Thomas Robert Smith (1921)
"From silverpoints.) I DREAMED I was a barber; and there went Beneath my hand, oh!
names extravagant. Beneath my trembling fingers, many a mask Of many a ..."
5. Book-prices Current: A Record of Prices at which Books Have Been Sold at Auction (1896)
"silverpoints. (250 printed.) BENSON (E.). From the Asolan Hills. 55. HENLEY (WE)
and WHITBY (0.) English Prose. Large paper. Jap. vellum. ..."
6. Retrospective Reviews: A Literary Log by Richard Le Gallienne (1896)
"But to whatever school he may now, or eventually, belong, he has a gift of epithet,
of dainty colour and subtle rhythm, such as distinguish his silverpoints ..."
7. The Symbolist Movement in Literature by Arthur Symons (1919)
"... silverpoints, 1893, there are translations of " Charleville " and " Sensation."
The latter, and " Les Chercheuses de Poux," are translated by Mr. T. ..."
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