noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Hunt, the team's quicksilver guard, slipped in and made the basket.
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the quicksilver beauty of Khan's singing
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Beckett's playing is all quicksilver and lyricism with an often sardonic edge.
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His eyes had lost their quicksilver fear.
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In fact, its core is crystal, shining night and day, veined with quicksilver and gold.
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It wriggled and squirmed like quicksilver and, apart from that, the box was only just long enough to take it.
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The essential Gielgud was all quicksilver intelligence.
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The old man was a cracked leather bottle trying to contain quicksilver .
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The tar on the roads glistened like liquid quicksilver .
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Under that flippant attitude he liked to show at Park Crescent was a mind like quicksilver .