ghostly_silver colors

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In literature, ghostly silver often emerges as an ethereal hue that transforms natural landscapes into realms of mystery and subtle beauty. For instance, it is used to tint boughs and bushes in moonlight, lending a quiet, otherworldly shimmer to the scene [1]. Similarly, trunks and branches become veiled in ghostly silver (or gray), blurring the line between reality and imagination [2]. In another evocative depiction, ribbons of mist weave through alders and marshes, their cloaking ghostly silver adding to the transient, spectral atmosphere of the natural world [3].

Not a single human being would have been visible to an ordinary eye there in the moonlight, which tipped boughs and bushes with ghostly silver.
— from The Scouts of the Valley by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
The moonlight deepened again, and veiled the trunks and branches in ghostly silver or gray.
— from The Young Trailers: A Story of Early Kentucky by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
Ribbons of mist, weaving in and out above the stream, clothed the alders in ghostly silver and rested in billowy masses upon the marshes.
— from Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' by Roy Chapman Andrews

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