In the Louis Quinze, gilt-bedded, gilt-framed, gilt-edged bridal-suite de luxe on the seventeenth floor, Mrs. Charley Cox sat rigid enough and in shirt-waisted incongruity on the lower curl of a gilt divan that squirmed to represent the letter S. "Charleyare yousorry?" He wriggled out of his dust-coat, tossing it on the gilt-canopied bed and crossed to her, lifting off her red sailor.

His was the short, stocky kind of assurance which seemed to say, "Greater securities hath no man than mine, which are gilt-edged.

"An invitation to Professor Joliette's," and Isabelle tossed a gilt-edged card across the table to Marion; "Wednesday evening.

The book was a slender one, bound in calf, gilt-edged, and stamped with a gold wreath in the centre of each cover.

He will not as a rule be willing to go to this expense, unless he sees his way to obtain for the farm an annual payment, which represents at least a fair return on this capital outlay, as big a return as he could have got, for instance, by investing the same amount of money in some gilt-edged security.

I am prepared to make you an offera gilt-edged offer for that (pointing toward it) hill above the town.

He should not be confounded with those parlour pacifists covered with official decorations and grand cordons of international orders, for whom peace is a gilt-edged investment in quiet times.

Is it the gilt-edged butter you give him for his ash-cakes?" "A pusson that's pious," said Phoebe, "don't want to get rich onter a minister of the gospel" "Which would be wearin' on their hopes if they did," interrupted Molly.

Merchants on the brink of ruin had deposited missives whose answer would make or break them; others had dropped upon the swelling heap tidings that would make poor men richrich men richer; maidens came with delicately written notes, perfumed and gilt-edged, eloquent with loveand cast them amidst invoices and bills of lading.

Oh! the table's fixed up gaudy with the gilt-edged chiny set, And we'll use the silver tea-pot and the comp'ny spoons, you bet; And we're goin' ter have some fruit-cake and some thimbleberry jam, And "riz biscuits," and some doughnuts, and some chicken, and some ham.

Mr. Taynton had not been dealing in gilt-edged securities lately, and could not absolutely trust his memory, but he rather thought that the repurchase could be made at a somewhat smaller sum than had been realised by their various sales dating from two years ago.

Mills might, if he chose, proclaim on any convenient housetop, that his partner had gambled with Morris's £40,000 that according to the ledgers was invested in certain railway debentures and other gilt-edged securities.

It was the Miss Heydinger who had addressed him, the owner of that gilt-edged book in the cover of brown paper.

Later, Myra sold the grove and the house where you men live, now, and bought the little place next doorputting the rest of the money into gilt-edged securities in Sibyl's name; which insures the girl against want, for years to come.

Am I to understand that that gilt-edged special that passed us just now brought you to your appointment?

"Coming out all right," he wrote shakily in that gilt-edged diary.

Ethelyn had kept her vow, and Richard felt for a moment as if all the world were as completely a blank as that bit of gilt-edged paper he crumpled so helplessly in his hand.

"What you've seen uh me, so far, ain't been what I'd call a gilt-edge recommend.

Davidson, primus, got two gilt-edged volumes of poetry.

No. 5. (gilt-edged, sweet-scented)"more sentiment,""heart's outpourings.

he replied,"that will gilt-edge them."

The paper may be gilt-edged, but not coloured.

The paper may be gilt-edged, but not coloured.

In the perspective they are statuettes rather than statues, of Parian spotlessness, ribboned and gilt-edged through an elegant culture, well appointed according to the best taste, companion Sévres pieces, highly ornamental, and effectually shelved.

These letters are all written upon the old-fashioned square sheet of letter paper, some gilt-edged, entirely written over, even to the turned-down ends, and heavily sealed.