It may have been violet, once; time and sun and salt had faded it to a vague tarnished silver, like twilight on the ocean.
More important, he sees the mirror-black sheen of inactive wellstone, alive with glints of green and purple and tarnished silver.
The sand was the shade of tarnished silver that hadn't gone entirely black.
Everything around him was in shades of silver-even the bark on the trees was not truly black, but the deep grey of tarnished silver.
Old silver is a color that was formulated to resemble tarnished silver.
The setting sun had turned the water a tarnished silver.
Chandeliers of tarnished silver hung from the ceiling; despite the summer weather, a fire burned in a hearth at the far end of the hall.
It gleamed sullenly, like old and tarnished silver, yet the glow it gave off was sufficient to light the corridor and filter into the vault beyond.
Six days they marched, six days in which the sky was as dull as tarnished silver.
She rummaged inside her sweater and pulled out a packet of Embassy Regal and a tarnished silver lighter.