17804 examples of gold in sentences

Silver is the pervading gleam of his oval form; but while he is yet wet and fresh, the silver is flushed with a chromatic radiance of gold, and violet, and pale metallic green, all blending and harmonizing like the mother-o'-pearl lustre in some rare sea-shell.

"'You gave that rascal a gold dollar for a half-dime,' said my friend.

"'Did I?' "A gold dollar!

A gold dollar!

I went to my office, and sat there all day, stupid, only twirling my watch-key, and repeating to myself,'A gold dollar!

a gold dollar!'

he cried, in a low, hurried voice,"I'll give you a hundred dollars in gold to let me go.

I'll give you a hundred and fifty dollars in gold, now, here on the spot,and the watch out of my pocket; take it yourself, with your own hands!"

Some one in a company quoting the passage from "Henry V.," "So work the honey-bees," and each "picking out his pet plum" from that perfect piece of natural history, Wordsworth objected to the line, "The singing masons building roofs of gold," because, he said, of the unpleasant repetition of the "ing" in it!

The peace of Villafranca surprised every one, from the Czar on the Neva to the gold-gatherers on the Sacramento.

From the Amulet we turn to Mr. Watts's El Dorado of poetry and romance in superb crimson silken sheen and burnished gold edges.

she's fretful, I have bands Of pearl and gold to bind her hands; Tell her, if she struggle still, I have myrtle rods at will, For to tame though not to kill.

When Jack no more on duty call'd, His true love's tokens overhaul'd; The broken gold, the braided hair, The tender motto, writ so fair, Upon his 'bacco-box he views, Nancy the poet, love the muse.

And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies; A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroider'd o'er with leaves of myrtle; A gown made of the finest wool, Which from our pretty lambs we pull; Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold; A belt of straw and ivy-buds, With coral clasps and amber studs, And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love.

By and by he awoke, and a beautiful gold robin sat on the spray, and sung a song of joy.

" We cannot promise our young friends that they will find money in the leaves of their Bibles, but you may be assured that if you study its pages, and follow its precepts, you will find wisdom, which is better than silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

When the very soul gets to be absorbed in the process of rolling gold over and over, in order to make it accumulate, the spirit grudges the withdrawal of the smallest fraction from the gainful pursuit; and here lies the secret of the disdain of appearances that is so generally to be met with in this description of persons.

Zabra: The King's favour is like gold.

Chamberlain: It is like much gold.

Chamberlain: No one will give us gold for many days.

Chamberlain: A little gold perhaps from evil-doers for justice.

But if he be not Thakbar but some greedy man who demands more gold than we would give to Thakbar? Chamberlain: Why, then we must give him even what he demands, and God will punish his greed.

The fellows with the gold spots on their foreheads.

Sniggers: What? Albert: No heathen black devils with gold spots on their face.

The designs purport to represent the Duke's battles and sieges; and everywhere we see the hero himself, as large as life, and as gorgeous in scarlet and gold as the holy sisters could make him, with a three-cornered hat and flowing wig, reining in his horse, and extending his leading-staff in the attitude of command.

17804 examples of  gold  in sentences