1 Mirrors have a backing of quicksilver.

2 His mood changed like quicksilver.

3 His eyes had lost their quicksilver fear.

4 The essential Gielgud was all quicksilver intelligence.

5 The tar on the roads glistened like liquid quicksilver.

6 The old man was a cracked leather bottle trying to contain quicksilver.

7 Beckett's playing is all quicksilver and lyricism with an often sardonic edge.

8 It wriggled and squirmed like quicksilver and, apart from that, the box was only just long enough to take it.

9 In fact, its core is crystal, shining night and day, veined with quicksilver and gold.

10 Under that flippant attitude he liked to show at Park Crescent was a mind like quicksilver.

11 Whenever that happened, a quicksilver feeling went skidding through her bloodstream.

12 It is the quicksilver panacea for weakness - the quintessence of a dedicated existence.

13 Hunt, the team's quicksilver guard,[] slipped in and made the basket.

14 A map of Lough Erne resembles a giant spoonful of quicksilver emptied over Ireland to form and re-form in myriad fluid blobs.