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  • A few pieces of my silver-furred feline's backstory whacked me upside the head again and are fitting in nicely with the ivory and the gears.

    jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2009

  • I've always been a scarred, scared, silver-furred feline with dead, dark eyes that only see the wrong sort of dreams and steel cuffs around her wrists to make sure she'll never forget where those dreams come from.

    jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2007

  • "That may have been, my old messmate, but look at my paws now, silver-furred, battered, scarred and so full of aches and pains that they're no good for anything!"

    Excerpt: Lord Brocktree by Brian Jacques 2000

  • A tribe of black-faced, silver-furred monkeys had fled the irruption of men into the rocky gorge, and those beasts now gathered behind Sharpe where they gibbered and screamed.

    Sharpe's Fortress Cornwell, Bernard 1999

  • She came out of the forest like a ghost;. a tall Indian woman riding a great bull moose, a pair of silver-furred wolves padding along either side.

    Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990

  • The two wolves had awaited them at the camp, silver-furred in the moonlight.

    Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990

  • Smiling and making Tsla gestures of friendship, he forced his way through them to find Tyl deep in conversation with a silver-furred elder.

    Voyage To The City Of The Dead Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

  • The silver-furred man looked at the point where the runner had disappeared.

    Dancer's Luck Maxwell, Ann, 1944- 1983

  • While our friends admired the loveliness of the Hall of the Beavers, the silver-furred King spoke again, in his soft voice:

    John Dough And The Cherub Baum, L. Frank 1906

  • After all, walking with an Esquimau belle is not so very different from walking with a Yankee girl: only I fancy it must have looked a little odd; for, as I have already stated, they wore long-legged boots with very broad tops coming above the knee, silver-furred seal-skin breeches, and a jacket of white hare-skin (the polar hare) edged with the down of the eider-duck.

    Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' 1887

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