How To Use Gilded In A Sentence
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It felt like a gilded cage.
Consuelo & Alva: Love and Power in the Gilded Age
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A whirling flash of sapphire suddenly rotated --- in a delirious foxtrot --- with Doc's own dizzy nimbus of gilded amber.
BEHINDLINGS
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Ramses handed the ornate gilded wine list back to the maître d '.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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This embossed, etched, and gilded steel close helmet is attributed to German armourer Kolman Helmschmid.
Would This 16th Century Helmet Terrify a Jousting Opponent?
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Cooke gilded that story for days, insisting on its veracity and refusing to tell the police where the boy lived.
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And internet users have been quick to point out the difference between his own gilded existence and that of those in the struggling steel town.
The Sun
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The gilded silver pinhead, styled in the image of a bird of prey, is one of a handful of examples discovered in Britain and will go on display in London.
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The true doctors are those in general practice, outside the gilded edifices.
Times, Sunday Times
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She gripped a fancy mat which covered an ornate table by her side, and dragged a begilded vase on to the floor without even noticing it.
The Box with Broken Seals
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The collection ended on a high note with a sequence of little black sack dresses with gilded metallic trim.
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After the castings were attached, the entire frame was gilded in antique gold.
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Finally 100 grams of whiting, dry and sifted, are mixed with 5 grams of pulverised supertartrate of potass; this new powder is dissolved in a portion of the above described liquid, in sufficient quantity to form a paste of the proper consistency to be spread with a pencil on the article or part to be gilded.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
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The piano, decrepit on its legs, though made of good wood painted black and gilded, was dirty, defaced, and scratched; and its keys, worn like the teeth of old horses, were yellowed with the fuliginous colors of the pipe.
A Daughter of Eve
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It is the age of omber, of sonnets to Chloe's false ringlets, of odes to red heels and epics to lap dogs, of tinseled struttings in gilded drawing-rooms.
Journeys to Bagdad
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Most were gilded, although painted faux-marble frames are also found.
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West of Eden is an unusual take on life in the gilded cage.
Times, Sunday Times
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An ancient Russian icon in nielloed silver and one of these Christs in carved wood, executed in the seventeenth century by Bogard de Nancy, in an antique frame of gilded wood backed with velvet, were the only things that slightly relieved the banality of the decoration.
Là-bas
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He was gazing idly at the baroque Italian candelabra in the painted dome above his head and reflecting how much more jolly it would have been if the posturing Loves and gilded amoretti had been replaced by lifelike models of the Board of Directors, when a subdued feminine voice in his ear startled him to attention.
Sweet Danger
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I saw him run after a gilded butterfly: and when he caught it, he let it go again; and after it again; and over and over he comes, and again; catched it again; or whether his fall enraged him, or how ’twas, he did so set his teeth and tear it; O, I warrant it, how he mammocked it!
The Tragedy of Coriolanus
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If the pills were pleasant, they would not be gilded.
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The voice is always in evidence, of course, but it's in public that it becomes shaped, like a piece of music, and one almost consciously listens for all the gilded glissandoes, the curlicues of wit, the velvet pauses.
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But King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent family in Newport: for thirteen years he lived a double lifeas the celebrated white explorer, geologist, and writer Clarence King and as a black Pullman porter and steelworker named James Todd.
Passing Strange: Summary and book reviews of Passing Strange by Martha Sandweiss.
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It is easy to see the superrich as different, with gilded and unattainable lives.
Times, Sunday Times
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A set of twenty-four carved and gilded chairs appear on the inventory of the house for 1736.
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The dragon, gliding across its vast emptiness, was a mere gilded fly in a banqueting hall.
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Much of the ceiling is fretwork, and fresco par-excellence, in gilded gold.
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Gilded Finish Gilding is a process of overlaying a base metal with a very thin layer of gold.
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The rooms are filled with frou-frou frills, flowery saucers used as ashtrays, china figurines and over-gilded frames.
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The sun lanced through the overcast veil of blizzard-clouds and snow-squalls and gilded the twin vessels in shining gold.
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The gilded wooden carvings around the windows had turned brown, but now they gleam.
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In the old days a young chef with ambitions to write their own menu would have raised £1.5m to launch something gilded and marbled and sconced.
Restaurant review: Pitt Cue Co
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The cult image of Artemis was brought out from the inner sanctum and, gilded and white, shone brilliantly in the morning sun.
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Dynamite By Louis Adamic (1931) Louis Adamic 's "Dynamite" was — and remains — the only popular overview of the violent clashes that accompanied the flourishing of American industry from the Gilded Age through the New Deal.
Terror in America From Another Era
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If so, the major Latin-American directors are not gilded wetbacks, fleeing home in search of the Yankee dollar.
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Fourteen columns of colored marble sustain a domed ceiling of gilded cedar, with an exterior deambulatory under a tunnel-vaulting also roofed with cedar.
In Morocco
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The butler suavely tries to inform her; the housekeeper removed the white crotcheted scarfs and things from the gilded chairs, and I am sure Mrs. Denning had a heartache about their loss; but she saw that they had also vanished from
The Man Between, an International Romance
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Ninety percent of the store's offerings are gilded in 22 to 23 karats or 12 - karat white gold, according to Carroll.
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The ceremony of the gilded man supposedly ended in the late 15th century when El Dorado and his subjects were conquered by another tribe.
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A critical taste might have objected that the plush curtains which shaded the windows were too heavy for summer; that the begilded wallpaper "swore" a little at its own dado and frieze, as well as deadened the effect of the pictures which hung against it; and that the drapery of lace and velvet which veiled the fireplace made a fire inconvenient and almost impossible, however cold the weather might be.
A Little Country Girl
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_ Black, with gilded tomentum, which forms two bands on the thorax, and one on each side of the pectus; abdomen with three gilded tomentose bands, the third subapical, first segment ferruginous beneath; legs tawny, femora at the base and coxæ black; wings blackish-brown, dark cinereous hindward; halteres tawny.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Sidonie was an 'etagere' covered with childish toys, petty, trivial knickknacks, microscopic fans, dolls 'tea-sets, gilded shoes, little shepherds and shepherdesses facing one another, exchanging cold, gleaming, porcelain glances.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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Elzevir Terence, printed in red letters, and a curious Birman book, whose pages consisted of thin leaves of ivory, gilded at the edges; and here too were black rhyta from Chiusi, and a cylix from Vulci, and one of those quaint Peruvian jars, which was so constructed that, when filled with water, the air escaped in sounds that resembled that of the song or cry of the animal represented on the vase or jar.
St. Elmo
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The scabbard occasionally had sheets of silver or gilded bronze applied to it to protect the mouth of the scabbard and the chape.
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The actor has more adoring acolytes than any gilded idol in Achilles' day.
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And now he showed me pieces of armour, that is, a vizored headpiece or armet, with cuirass, backplates, pauldrons and vambraces, all very richly gilded, the which it seemed he had chosen for my defence.
Martin Conisby's Vengeance
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Sunlight gilded the children's faces.
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The porcelain handles, which curve to enclose florets, are gilded to imitate gilt bronze.
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A clothesbrush and a tin cup were the only foreign objects on the overwrought, gilded table to the other side of a red velvet chair beside the fringed canopy bed.
Temple of the Winds
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Without its gilded splendour and cheap bars, some peers might want to call it a day anyway.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some continental examples were of copper alloy, of golden sheen when newly cast, while others were actually gilded.
Times, Sunday Times
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The most promising ingress appeared to be across the blockade of a robust and much-begilded young man, who was occupying the familiar position of an "end-seat hog," and displaying the full glories of the Hochwaldian dress uniform.
The Unspeakable Perk
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Irrawaddy, which is the main river of Burmah; and the first you see of the town is the Shway Dagohn Pagoda, the gilded cone above the trees.
The Belted Seas
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The figurehead was a bull, with a flower on his brow and gilded horns.
The King Must Die
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Her godmother scooped out the inside, leaving nothing but the rind; she then struck it with her wand, and the pumpion instantly became a fine coach gilded all over with gold.
Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk
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One of his most autobiographical works, it follows a gilded couple torn apart by wealth and mental instability.
Times, Sunday Times
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Almost everything was gilded in gold, and the room seemed to sparkle.
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The butler suavely tries to inform her; the housekeeper removed the white crotcheted scarfs and things from the gilded chairs, and I am sure Mrs. Denning had a heartache about their loss; but she saw that they had also vanished from Dora's parlor, so she took the hint, and accepted the lesson.
The Man Between: An International Romance
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He stepped off the high-heeled cothurnus, and came down into common life; he held out his great hearty arms, and embraced us all; he had a bow for all women; a kiss for all children; a shake of the hand for all men, high or low; he showed us Heavens sun shining every day on quiet homes; not gilded palace roofs only, or court processions, or heroic warriors fighting for princesses and pitched battles.
On Charity and Humor
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Fat gilded cupids sprawled abandonedly above the cupboards, tooting horns, waving their draperies, and generally looking as though they had been imbibing some of the more alcoholic wares of the shop.
Dragonfly in Amber
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The altar, intricately carved in limewood, painted and gilded, represents the Dormition of the Virgin, and took its creator 12 years to make.
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The massive and elaborately gilded furniture and furnishings of the late baroque were so entrenched in Italy, that rococo took longer to establish itself there than in France, southern Germany or even England.
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Armies of gilded statuettes of saintly figures adorned little notches in the chiselled stone walls and framed iconographic pictures hung from any spaces which weren't already occupied.
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The organ from "Saint-Roch, Paris IV" 2009 is shown in a 60-by-50-inch print that does justice to its grandeur, the steel pipes, the gilded putto with a viol, the bas-relief angel playing a bagpipe on one side of the supporting balcony and the angel with a keyboard on the other side, and the ornate clock keeping time high on top of it all.
Where Man Has His Place
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A whirling flash of sapphire suddenly rotated --- in a delirious foxtrot --- with Doc's own dizzy nimbus of gilded amber.
BEHINDLINGS
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There are also ritual lamps, and a charming gilded swing with push-rods to lull the deity into a kindly tolerance of human failings.
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In Venice — as in Tuscany — painting came to perfection after the heroic period; and the arts have been truly described as the gilded bark which covered the cankered trunk of a luxuriant tree. '
Explaining Titian's Egg Seller
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The Egyptian military standard was generally surmounted by the figure of a lion in gilded bronze, the lion being sometimes surmounted by a fan-shaped ornament.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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Desperation abounds, especially among the young and those beyond the gilded circle of the Parisian elites.
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gilded icons
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Past the gilded harp and the bamboo chairs awaiting arrangement, we march upstairs to the East Room, where the patina of history these are the famous portraits of George and Martha Washington, these are the iconic nineteenth-century chandeliers has been freshened for the evening with flowers for the tables and arrangements of cacti for the mantles, with the Clinton china and vermeil flatware and tiny gilded eagle place card holders sans cards.
Mayhill Fowler: A Citizen Journalist Covers an Obama State Dinner [PHOTOS]
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These mostly 20-somethings are a million miles away from gilded superclubbers and heroin chic.
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The photographs also record, albeit subtly, the wear that evidences the many people who have gathered together under these gilded ceilings.
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A whirling flash of sapphire suddenly rotated --- in a delirious foxtrot --- with Doc's own dizzy nimbus of gilded amber.
BEHINDLINGS
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As many as goe out to warfare doe prouide all things of their owne cost: they fight not on foote, but altogether on horsebacke: their armour is a coate of maile, and a helmet: the coate of maile without is gilded, or els adorned with silke, although it pertaine to a common soldier: they haue a great pride in shewing their wealth: they vse bowes, and arrowes, as the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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The Outsides of their Pots were Gilded with the Titles of Preservatives, Cordials, and Panpharmacons.
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She diarised en route, ‘I am tired of the gilded chaff of single life and my being craves for more substantial food of married life - even though it be rye bread.’
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It's a small oil on board in a gilded, original frame.
Times, Sunday Times
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Before his gilded galiot ran naked vine-wreathed corybants,
Ballad of Reading Gaol
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Because he squirmed in protest as she tried to remove his gilded, gemmed gauntlets, she had to leave them on.
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He wears a gilded crown and carries a gilded mace.
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The facade, with its richly gilded crest on the front window and French doors, has been carefully restored.
Beechworth's Victorian Architecture
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She painted and stencilled, and stippled and sponged and gilded until the house became a jewel.
Times, Sunday Times
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She came bravely enough to the showy entrance way, with the polished and begilded lobby, set with framed pictures out of the current attraction, leading up to the quiet box-office, but she could get no further.
Sister Carrie
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It's bow was adorned by a woman's figure crafted by San Francisco sculpture Monica Maduro and it's inside was described as opulent, with gilded frames and velvet trim.
Merced Sun-Star: front
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And in the United States, it was the Gilded Age that saw the new industrial economy engulf the entire continent.
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The autumn sun gilded the lake.
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As Parisian chair makers began adopting Tillard's designs, the frames of both caned and Louis XV bergère chairs were at times gilded or painted.
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The king rideth on a triumphant cart or wagon all gilded, which is drawen by 16. goodly horses: and this cart is very high with a goodly canopy ouer it, behind the cart goe 20. of his
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Gold and silver medals must be made of 92.5 percent pure silver; the gold medal must be gilded with at least six grams of gold.
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The text on the invitations is die-stamped; the invitation's edges are beveled and gilded.
Details on the royal wedding guest list, sort of
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They crept out of the city under the oppressive darkness, and were on the slave roads once more by the time the sun burned through the dry clouds and gilded the plains.
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The plaques recording connections with famous residents are usually blue but this one was gilded to reflect the star's love of bling.
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The inventory of 1700 describes 'its wooden frame gilded with unburnished gold'.
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All the frames in the Simoni collection were found in near-perfect condition; none were ever regilded, restored or altered.
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Its two golden domes and four golden minarets had been last regilded in the 1870s.
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Sudun then went in, clothed himself in gilded armour, girt on a saw-like sword, and came out holding a shining club in his hand.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The corridors and halls may be lined with gilded mirrors and priceless art, but under the antique tables lie plastic toys and remote-controlled cars.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not just the stunning performances of our gilded athletes.
The Sun
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There rode ships from France, England, Holland, China and Japan, while innumerable boats and gilded barges rowed by sixty men plied to and fro.
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There were also a lovely gilded desk, soft comfortable chairs and loungers that invited a person to grab a book and read for the whole day.
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All the colors were bright, and brightest of all were the small gilded dollhouse things at the corners of streets.
THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT
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The lavish wedding celebrations of the period were marked by extravagant gifts, such as maiolica decorated with narratives or portraits; rare Venetian glassware; rings (including one of the earliest known diamond wedding rings) and other jewelry; delicate gilded boxes; and vividly painted cassoni, or bridal chests, which would be filled with costly linens and clothing.
Undefined
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Gilded Hawke is a variegated curly ivy with grey-green central colouring and gold margins.
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Head with gilded pubescence, cinereous behind and beneath; antennæ tawny, second joint above towards the tip and third joint piceous; thorax slightly covered with gilded tomentum; pectus with cinereous tomentum; abdomen with gilded tomentum towards the tip; legs tawny, femora mostly black, tibiæ with black stripes; wings cinereous, dark-brown about the costa, veinlet which bisects the subapical areolet incomplete, as it is also in the following species; halteres tawny.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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This opens on to a bright restaurant with gilded mirrors and ceiling lights with fittings shaped like oak leaves.
Times, Sunday Times
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The golden light gilded the sea.
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* The term “Vandal,” he said, “best describes the roving, independent, free-and-easy character of that class of traveling Americans who are not elaborately educated, cultivated, and refined—and gilded and filagreed with the ineffable graces of the first society.”
Mark Twain
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Late though it was, a dim light from the great East window fell in broad slabs of purple and green shadow across the grey; everything was indistinct; only the white marble of the Reredos was like a figured sheet hanging from wall to wall, and the gilded trumpets of the angels on the choir-screen stood out dimly like spider pattern.
The Cathedral
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The choir takes their places in the lofted stalls, some thirty feet above the floor of the sanctuary, giving them a distant, angelic quality that complements the gilded sword-and-trumpet-bearing cherubim scattered throughout the room.
American Grace
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A gilded silver twopence might well pass for a gold half-crown to the unwary.
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They came to it rather quickly, the largest building in the village that was covered in jewels and gilded with gold.
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Mark Twain
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By this means, when the heavens are filled with clouds, when the earth swims in rain, and all nature wears a lowering countenance, I withdraw myself from these uncomfortable scenes, into the visionary worlds of art; where I meet with shining landscapes, gilded triumphs, beautiful faces, and all those other objects that fill the mind with gay ideas, and disperse that gloominess which is apt to hang upon it in those dark disconsolate seasons.
Essays and Tales
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Although mass produced, these clocks were finely if not heavily gilded, and some wear should be expected if the gilding is claimed as original.
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What gilded theatre or country pile can beat that number?
Times, Sunday Times
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If the pills were pleasant, they would not be gilded.
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As we sauntered forward I noticed all about lesser circles where the yellow-girted ones were drawing delighted laughter from good-tempered crowds by tricks of sleight-of-hand, and posturing, or tossing gilded cups and balls as though they were catering, as indeed they were, for outgrown children.
Gulliver of Mars
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A fantastic gilded bronze bibelot featuring three sirens astride an elephant once stood on a mosaic plinth with three tiny yet accurate models of the Greek temples at Paestum.
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An exquisite embroidered bed hanging and cover of silk and silver wire, known as a "Lit à la Duchesse" and acquired by the Getty in 1979 but never before displayed, makes its debut amid a surfeit of gilded framed paintings and articles related to the morning toilette, the ritual of dressing, coiffing and applying cosmetics that was often a surprisingly public affair for women in polite society.
With All the Time in the World
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The flame from the candle on the tallboy gilded the muscles of his back, then he turned and picked up the candlestick.
DEVIL'S BRIDE
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Armies of gilded statuettes of saintly figures adorned little notches in the chiselled stone walls and framed iconographic pictures hung from any spaces which weren't already occupied.
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Stepping ashore, you see a long line of carriages drawn up in several rows, and of every conceivable variety -- from the Turkish araba to the most coquettish-looking Parisian coupé -- gilded and adorned in a style to make a French lorette stare with amazement at a lavishness of expenditure exceeding her own.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873
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The stoneware piece is made from fired ceramic clay, glazed and gilded in 23-carat gold.
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Page view page image: where dwelt priests and nobles, illumined the propyla of the temples, burnished the lakes, gilded the obelisks, and flooded the whole City of the Sun with magnificence; — for there is a splendor and glory in the sunshine of Egypt unknown in other lands, the result of the purity of the crystalline atmosphere.
The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage
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This doesn’t surprise, since Lubitch’s stamp of forced gaiety is all over this gilded fabergé egg of a film chronicling Catherine the Great (Tallulah Bankhead) as she seduces a young army officer (William Eythe).
2009 June : Scrubbles.net
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Its stout ribs, curving outwards and downwards from this magnificent balk, supported the carvel-built roof, so that the upper half of the building appeared -- and indeed was -- a large inverted hull, decorated with dormer windows, brick chimneys, and a round pigeon-house surmounted by a gilded vane.
Wandering Heath
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At night the graceful mantle of leaves becomes a gilded dome in the reflected firelight.
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He does not wear a look of melancholy resignation, neither does he live in love-gilded poverty, in a cottage embosomed in roses.
The Englishwoman in America
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The chairs were of different forms and shapes, some had been carved, some gilded, some covered with damasked leather, some with embroidered work, but all were damaged and worm-eaten.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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The players have been forced to decamp while the historic building—with its sumptuous red velvet and gilded interior—is renovated.
The Comédie-Française Pops Up in Paris
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Armies of gilded statuettes of saintly figures adorned little notches in the chiselled stone walls and framed iconographic pictures hung from any spaces which weren't already occupied.
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If made of bronze and gilded, it is possibly a knife or dagger pommel.
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If we allow ourselves to be voluntarily imprisoned in gilded mansions on the hillsides ... we are nevertheless in prison.
Please Tell My Why
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A set of twenty-four carved and gilded chairs appear on the inventory of the house for 1736.
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She wore a white gown with a gilded leather girdle about her slender hips and her hair gleamed like molten gold in the morning sun.
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An interesting feature of the church is the array of gilded heads high up on the walls of the nave.
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Man from Snowy River and Other Verses "published 20 October 1895. toff: dandy, swell tote: short for totalizator, that is, someone who runs a betting pool, usually horse racing gilded youth: Fashionable, usually idle, young men. peeler man: police officer Find the poem online at: www. uq.edu.au My source for this recitation:" Banjo Paterson Favourites "1993 Penguin
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He had a neat little shop close to a jeweller's; next morning I passed that shop and noticed my name placarded there, surrounded by gold lockets, for that cunning nigger and his gilded friend were making a rich harvest of my shaved curls.
My Life as an Author
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Adam staircases and marble floors, gilded mirrors and curtains of swagged silk beside tall windows.
The Dressmaker
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For nearly two years, the country's gilded salons have been abuzz with chatter that the "end of the Berlusconi era" is nigh.
In Italy, Only Berlusconi Still Retains Confidence
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All the previous repairs to the gilding were removed, and following consolidation of the worm-eaten panel, the losses were filled with gesso and regilded using traditional materials.
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Numerous taxicabs and limousines pulled up to the gilded doorway, dropping off guests while young bellboys carted luggage up the service elevator to various suites.
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This opens on to a bright restaurant with gilded mirrors and ceiling lights with fittings shaped like oak leaves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Considerably more remarkable than the altar paintings are the reredoses or retables of carved and gilded wood (talha dourada) into which the paintings were inserted.
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Stones of deep red color like glowing carbuncles are let into gilded woodwork, and Limoges enamels ornament the walls.
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A tabletop glows with help from simple arrangements of gilded eucalyptus leaves, allium seed heads, poppy pods, and a cardoon.
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There were also an assortment of expensive, though useful household items, including silver salvers, tea services, silver coffeepots, paintings and books, along with signed photographs of members of the royal family encased in gilded or leather presentation frames.
Christmas with Queen Victoria | Edwardian Promenade
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All the previous repairs to the gilding were removed, and following consolidation of the worm-eaten panel, the losses were filled with gesso and regilded using traditional materials.
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Cavernous, gilded, former ballroom of the Great Eastern hotel, adorned with nudes and chandeliers.
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A panel painting might have a background of stamped, gilded gesso and enamels and precious stones in its frame.
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The splits in the party extend to the gilded social circle that seized control of the party a decade ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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One female mummy was found wearing a gilded mask, a rare treasure at the site known as the necropolis of Deir el-Banat.
Archive 2008-01-01
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On or near the sites of the famous Feuillants and Jacobins he now laid down splendid thoroughfares; and where the constitutionals or reds a decade previously had perorated and fought, the fashionable world of Paris now rolled in gilded cabriolets along streets whose names recalled the
The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)
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He was standing in a vast hall, lined with gilded mirrors from tessellated floor to Florentine ceiling.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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Later fauteuils of this type by Jacob Freres and Jacob Desmalter are typically entirely gilded, rendering them more opulent than those designed for the Salle du Conseil.
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So the Kugels indulged his eccentric whim, laboring to reconstitute the Noailles vignette, down to the very last gilded bibelot.
The Things Yves Loved
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Carven dragons reared over its gables; horns of elk and aurochs above the doors were gilded; pillars within bore the images of gods - save for Wodan, who had a richly bedecked halidom nearby.
Time Patrolman
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Not knowing a pesade from a pirouette or a courbette from a capriole, I was seduced by the riders' dashing livery of black boots, white tights, brown dress coat and gilded bicorn hat, and the ambiance of aristocratic Vienna.
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Jerry designed the enormous frames, which are all hand-carved, layered with red clay and water gilded with 22 - karat gold.
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A pueblo city that scouts had described as ringed with gilded ramparts proved to be built of mere mud and clay, which happened to glimmer deceptively in the setting sun.
Colossus
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And what's more scarey is that the remedial principles being dismantled (or which Alito et al. are trying to dismantle) are the product of the Gilded Age of the late 19th and early 20th Century.
Is That Legal?: High Noon At The Supreme Court On The Purpose Of Criminal Appeals?
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The "purple" is the badge of empire; even as in mockery it was put on our Lord. decked -- literally, "gilded." stones -- Greek, "stone." filthiness -- A, B, and Andreas read, "the filthy (impure) things.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Like the bonbons that line the gilded boxes of Godiva chocolates, their names adorn one storefront after another above displays of leather coats, designer purses and gold bracelets.
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Laura dated Tom first, and, unbeknownst to the gilded Waspy bride, has for years sustained an intimacy with the groom-to-be.
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I saw him run after a gilded butterfly; and when he caught it, he let it go again; and after it again; and over and over he comes, and up again; catched it again: or whether his fall enraged him, or how twas, he did so set his teeth and tear it; O! I warrant, how he mammocked it!
Act I. Scene III. Coriolanus
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Fréron's name was given to the youth of the day, which was called the jeunesse Fréron, or the _jéunesse dorée_ (gilded youth).
The Companions of Jehu
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Only the topmost branches were still gilded by daylight, the illuminated areas shrinking as the sun dropped below the misty horizon.
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In this gilded-bronze equestrian monument, one of Manhattan's finest public sculptures, General William Tecumseh Sherman is led on his horse by a winged classicized
Art Knowledge News
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If made of bronze and gilded, it is possibly a knife or dagger pommel.
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By the time the white petals died and the mint-colored berry poked out, the leaf shine was gilded tight and waxy.
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Gilded and jewel-encrusted have been the favors we have bestowed on our friends; odorless and radioactive is the justice we have meted to traitors who sought safety abroad.
The Committee to Re-Elect Putin
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And hard by this drug-market they came upon a palace, imposingly edified and magnificently decorated; so they entered and found therein banners displayed and drawn sword blades and strung bows and bucklers hanging by chains of gold and silver and helmets gilded with red gold.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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It felt like a gilded cage.
Consuelo & Alva: Love and Power in the Gilded Age
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In addition to apprenticeship and journeyman requirements, the regulations stipulated that all gilded work had to be stamped by the gilder.
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You will be lured to a gallery of Gilded Age portraits, including John Singer Sargent's legendry "Madame X.
The New World Reborn
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The chanting stilled as the leader, face shadowed by a heavily gilded hood, stepped forward and began to intone a ritual in some indecipherable tongue.
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Hardly any of them was a political reject, who had to be accommodated in a gilded cage like the Raj Bhawan.
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If the pills were pleasant, they would not be gilded.
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The old woman eyed him slily, and hitching her chair nearer his, and looking in at the parrot, who came down from the gilded dome at her call, said:
Dombey and Son
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If ever a palace came close to encapsulating what they describe in the fairy tales, this would be it, all spires, towers, and gilded gates.
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There, on a gilded stand, under a brilliant gasolier, lay a large and handsome volume, which Salome indicated as the one referred to by her father.
The Lost Lady of Lone
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A gilded New England chimney glass of about 1835 provides a handsome backdrop for the Paris porcelain garniture, about 1820 to 1825, on the mantel.
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Out of the shadows behind the gilded throne seat stepped a familiar figure.
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A set of twenty-four carved and gilded chairs appear on the inventory of the house for 1736.
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A huge black chaliko all armored in gold looked down at him, its benign eyes peering from the openings of a gilded chamfron.
The Golden Torc
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The golden light gilded the sea.
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They came swarming downstream, transports filled with palace servants and slaves and all their accoutrements and paraphernalia, barges laden with oxen and goats and chickens for the kitchens, gilded and gaily painted vessels bearing cargoes of palace furniture and treasure, of nobles and lesser creatures, all uncomfortably jumbled together in a most unseamanlike fashion.
River God
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The Victorians had a dream that Whitby could match the gilded splendour of Harrogate, and the thermal spring waters of Bath.
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The upstairs drawing room is a deep turquoise colour, and its ceiling is studded with gilded stars.
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Amid simple, wood-panelled walls, 10 black neo-classical columns support a vault of gilded beams and a complex ambulatory of exquisitely painted murals depicting male and female saints.
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The story revolves around the gilded youth of the 1920s and their glittering lifestyles.
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Geraghty showed off a picture on his phone standing in front of a giant gilded Oscar statue in front of the Kodak Theatre, while Renner proudly squired his mother, Valerie Cearley, to their table at the ball.
Oscar casts glow on after-parties
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Its giant gilded strongbox glared bullion-brilliant, and paradoxically appeared to float at the centre of a giant olive-green pool.
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It was of gigantic size, it was of princely splendor and the wood carving on the completely gilded outside was so elaborate and varied that the surface seemed to be alive.
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The walls were light pink and the ceiling was gilded.
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They can also be relined and frames repaired and regilded.
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Though no longer known as 'Lansbury's lido', his spirit lives on, since despite being situated in one of the most gilded areas of London, this remains as much a people's lido as it was 80 years ago.
Londonist
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They are framed in hand-gilded, 22 - karat gold and include a blue-green lacquer insert to highlight the beauty of the flowers.
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West of Eden is an unusual take on life in the gilded cage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oval ones were gilded or made of pine with mahogany veneer.
