silken-textured

Updated: May 17, 2025

Oh, it was a fine night outside, and why should a moth, soft-winged and cream-tinted and silken-textured, come whisking in from the dark, as silently as a spirit, to supervise Nehe-miah Yerby's letter, and travel up and down the page all befouled with the ink?

Mary Noailles Murfree - The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls: 1895