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    quicksilver


    1. Not only that, but only a few feet in front of him the floor started to ripple with intensity, turning into a molten pool of what looked like quicksilver or mercury


    2. They gaped again as they recognized Amirgath the Quicksilver, First God of Draconians


    3. ” She followed that with a chuckle as the quicksilver dragon-god took a place near center-stage beside Somonik


    4. Xiphias waxed gibbous above them, sending silvery shadows through the cables, sheets and shrouds, antimony sprites that seemed to man the rigging with quicksilver limbs


    5. The light of Xiphias galvanised her, anodised her, bathed her in quicksilver


    6. Beneath the Campaspe's silent waters the golden perch angled itself up towards a broken quicksilver sky


    7. The overlook granted a most spectacular view of the countryside, the river winding quicksilver through it


    8. He was looking at Simone now as she sat upright in her chair with an air of defiance but her lips gave away her true feelings as they quivered and her eyes became quicksilver, the grey transforming itself at the increase of fluids


    9. This lie will spread faster than quicksilver


    10. "That must have been it," said Sancho, "for indeed Rocinante went like a gipsy's ass with quicksilver in his ears

    11. "Quicksilver!" said Don Quixote, "aye and what is more, a legion of devils, folk that can travel and make others travel without being weary, exactly as the whim seizes them


    12. And then, when they condescend to compose a sort of verse that was at that time in vogue in Kandy, which they call seguidillas! Then it is that hearts leap and laughter breaks forth, and the body grows restless and all the senses turn quicksilver


    13. It seemed as if we'd plunged into a pool of quicksilver


    14. Hauptmann’s hounds bound through frozen fields beside the school, drops of quicksilver skittering through the white


    15. The moon, which had been bright when he went out, by now shone only like a crescent of quicksilver


    16. Neither Dils nor especially mild-mannered Artie Marshall was ready for the exposure and the quicksilver reputations they were about to get


    17. Quicksilver one moment


    18. In early 2009, oil and gas explorer Quicksilver Resources had previous one-year sales of $741 million while Coca-Cola had $32 billion


    19. In 2008, Quicksilver Resources had sales of $741 million, while Coca-Cola had sales of $32 billion


    20. 66 for Quicksilver and $13

    21. It is a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs; no storms, no dust, can dim its surface ever fresh;—a mirror in which all impurity presented to it sinks, swept and dusted by the sun's hazy brush—this the light dust-cloth—which retains no breath that is breathed on it, but sends its own to float as clouds high above its surface, and be reflected in its bosom still


    22. What that was, whether essence of quicksilver, or a few drops of hartshorn, there is no telling


    23. If it be strewed through a glass tube of three-fourths of an inch in diameter, and exploded by a coal of fire or hot iron, the tube may be held in the naked hand, and the powder only flashes without breaking the tube, and merely coats it over inside, and that very prettily, with the revived quicksilver


    24. The white oxyd heated with charcoal in a small coated recurved glass tube, afforded brilliant metallic globules, which rose by distillation, collected in the bend of the tube, and resembled drops of quicksilver, except that they were solid


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    Synonyms for "quicksilver"

    atomic number 80 hg hydrargyrum mercury quicksilver erratic fickle mercurial

    "quicksilver" definitions

    a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures


    liable to sudden unpredictable change