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    1. Gild gloriously the bare feet


    2. They were neither the first nor the last to gild the name of thief


    3. discourses, we could so gild and beautify the


    4. was duly contracted by the retired engineer turned inventor, Keith Gild, to write a


    5. The intrepid engineer Keith Gild


    6. Mr Gild was happy with the


    7. Dearer than the whole world would she be to him and gild his days with happiness


    8. Dimmesdale's own sermon, on the Sabbath after his vigil—to barter the transitory pleasures of the world for the heavenly hope, that was to assume brighter substance as life grew dark around her, and which would gild the utter gloom with final glory


    9. A number of biotech stocks had big moves in 2003, including Gilead Sciences (GILD) and Celgene (CELG)


    10. Gilead (NASDAQ: GILD) concentrates on developing medications that help patients who are suffering from life threatening diseases in what they consider areas of unmet medical need

    11. It is widely used to gild furniture, to edge the pages of books and in jewellery manufacture


    12. He could carve a bit, and gild and frame, and do odd jobs


    13. "It will take all his gold to gild a pill like him, that's what," said Mrs


    14. I asked Akim Akimitch, the best gilder in the jail, whether you really could gild a goat's horns


    15. The attempt to do this would, indeed, be to gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to add to the perfume of the violet—in all cases a most ridiculous and wasteful excess


    16. And with its glories gild their faces still!


    1. There are bars on the windows and the same genre of drab reproductions in gilded frames that we saw in John’s room adorns the walls


    2. Gaudy green armchairs with gilded wooden armrests shaped into lions’ paws line the walls


    3. The dinnerware is gilded


    4. and who is gilded with guilt


    5. The woman was quite mature and had a long and gilded robe on


    6. They spoke with the voices of women of purpose, and even the girlish banter which sprinkled their conversations was gilded with the genuineness of heartfelt joy, lacking the trivial frivolity so mechanically tittered by other young women tiresomely and without depth


    7. received this surname: gilded, polishing with


    8. Fair in the midst, with gilded cups around:


    9. high, hollow, and gilded


    10. He imagined the spoiled, gilded residents in panic, screaming and running in desperation for their very lives - in undiluted terror

    11. But hearing it took her back to the Imperial City and lovely Anvil, in which gilded musicians would often share their artistry at the auditory pleasure of all


    12. Privilege that saw generations-old luxury, gilded ballrooms, and finest porcelain


    13. He did not see the gilded flag of the purple lion enter Saparen, or the Thanes, their armor gleaming in the rising sun, cut through the line of ern


    14. Allowing him to seduce her in this place gilded with gold and silver, on a bed with the finest satin sheets, surrounded by classical paintings


    15. are gilded with today


    16. The seats were high-backed rectangular gilded thrones with colourful cushioned material


    17. Celebrations poured out on to the streets of Nordhel from the houses and inns within the city where people held grand parties in fancy costumes and gilded and feathered masks


    18. The furnishings inside Jean’s tent were suited to a queen’s palace, everything was gilded, the chairs, the bedposts, the mirrored lamps, the carpets, everywhere she looked was golden


    19. Terese had salvaged the desk from piles of furniture and other gilded items that were gathered for a bonfire, one of the more disturbing practices emerging from revolution


    20. 8 As for their tongue, it is polished by the workman, and they themselves are gilded and laid over with silver; yet are they

    21. The tome Prince Dizil magically Retrieved and held to Mark was finely tooled and gilded, the covers were sixty centimeters long and forty-five wide, and it was seven centimeters thick


    22. She was whisked to the top floor of the hotel, just glimpsing something of the wonderful gilded foyer and gigantic arrangements of flowers everywhere


    23. The tome Prince Dizil magically Retrieved and held to Mark was finely tooled and gilded, the covers were two feet long and eighteen inches wide, and it was three inches thick


    24. All I could see were his knuckles on the gilded arms of his chair, like a throne


    25. photograph in a gilded frame, which was the exact moment when I figured out that I was


    26. striking resemblance to the "conspicuous consumption" of the Gilded Age of the late19th century


    27. one for a hedonist in the Gilded Age, are now the aspirations of most people in developed


    28. It was shaped like a black flower, gilded with gold


    29. Clinging to the mountainside were dozens of multileveled palaces-a city of mansions-all with white-columned porticos, gilded terraces, and bronze braziers glowing with a thousand fires


    30. A different statue came to life—a gilded wooden pharaoh with a

    31. The altar was rising to the bottom, dressed with white and purple tablecloth and a thin lace gilded in the shores


    32. A season of Sweeney and Apollo in Bradford saw my gilded bum in the paper captioned “Theatrical Grin and Bare It” or some such, so we played to good houses


    33. No! There was a time in which he was a child so tender and delicate as any other, whose loops, gilded by the sun, abundant, hung from his head as grapes from a French vineyard in harvest time; and with the smooth face of an angel, as the one emulated by Raphael Sanzio hands in his wonderful painting, “The Two Angels”


    34. With exaggerated care he passed me the shallow gilded bowl flanked by a pair of elegant lions


    35. Her coiffure imitated that of the queen's, on her feet were gilded sandals such as Taramis wore in her boudoir


    36. Jewels glittered in the torchlight on her gilded sandals, on her gold breast-plates and the slender chains that held them in place


    37. and gilded chairs are set about


    38. This Aram lifted and showed the Cimmerian into a well-appointed chamber, the windows of which, Conan instantly noted, were small and strongly set with twisted bars of iron, tastefully gilded


    39. Yet there they were—gold breast-plates set with concentric circles of small gems, gilded sandals, and a short silken skirt upheld by a jeweled girdle


    40. The body still lay as he had first seen it, silent, motionless, in breast-plates of jeweled gold, gilded sandals and silken skirt

    41. They hurried down the corridor with reckless speed and stopped before a gilded door which bore the royal dragon symbol of Aquilonia


    42. His reason was candid; his motives, loudly proclaimed, gilded his actions with something of the glamor of a crusade


    43. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments


    44. It was not always a gilded life she had led


    45. The carnival had reached its highest level of madness and Aureliano Segundo had satisfied at last his dream of dressing up like a tiger and was walking along the wild throng, hoarse from so much roaring, when on the swamp road a parade of several people appeared carrying in a gilded litter the most fascinating woman that imagination could conceive


    46. Watching the glow of the fire as it gilded the persistent woman who neither then nor in any instant of her life seemed to exist completely, he suddenly remembered that on one October eleventh in the middle of the war he had awakened with the brutal certainty that the woman with whom he had slept was dead


    47. Systematically, serenely, in the same parsimonious way in which he had papered the house with banknotes, he then set about smashing the Bohemian crystal ware against the walls, the hand-painted vases, the pictures of maidens in flow-er-laden boats, the mirrors in their gilded frames, every-thing that was breakable, from parlor to pantry, and he finished with the large earthen jar in the kitchen, which exploded in the middle of the courtyard with a hollow boom


    48. The woman of every day, the one with her head held high and with a stony gait, did not arrive, but an old woman of supernatural beauty with a yellowed ermine cape, a crown of gilded cardboard, and the languid look of a person who wept in secret


    49. They jumped in en masse, swimming like birds flying through a sky gilded with fragrant bubbles, while José Arcadio, floated on his back on the edge of the festivities, remembering Amaranta with his eyes open


    50. In wire pens that surrounded the dance floor and among large Amazonian camellias there were herons of different colors, crocodiles as fat as pigs, snakes with twelve rattles, and a turtle with a gilded shell who dove in a small artificial ocean












































    1. No paint or dye can give so splendid a colour as gilding


    2. In the manufactures of Birmingham alone, the quantity of gold and silver annually employed in gilding and plating, and thereby disqualified from ever afterwards appearing in the shape of those metals, is said to amount to more than fifty thousand pounds sterling


    3. We may from thence form some notion how great must be the annual consumption in all the different parts of the world, either in manufactures of the same kind with those of Birmingham, or in laces, embroideries, gold and silver stuffs, the gilding of books, furniture, etc


    4. The prohibition of exportation cannot detain a greater quantity of gold and silver in Spain and Portugal, than what they can afford to employ, than what the annual produce of their land and labour will allow them to employ, in coin, plate, gilding, and other ornaments of gold and silver


    5. And judging by the expensive fabrics of their robes and the gilding of the temple building, the clergy of this temple were quite successful at it


    6. paint work or the gilding on the dome seems to have been


    7. Like gilding the lily, confusedly occurred to her


    8. Perhaps Meg felt, without understanding why, that they were not particularly cultivated or intelligent people, and that all their gilding could not quite conceal the ordinary material of which they were made


    9. Great care would be necessary when deciding what parts were to be gilded because - whilst large masses of gilding are apt to look garish and in bad taste - a lot of fine gold lines are ineffective, especially on a flat surface, where they do not always catch the light


    10. It had plate-glass windows, resplendent with gilding, marble-topped tables with snow white covers, vases of flowers, and all the other appurtenances of glittering cut glass and silver

    11. The glow reached upward, gilding her lower masts and rigging with a faint patina of gold, and he grunted in satisfaction


    12. The effect of the frontage is completed by the cupola of the auditorium, topped with a cap of bronze sparingly adorned with gilding


    13. There were painted white chairs, with gilding and wreaths on them, and some lingering red silk damask with slits in it


    14. and instead of the threatened cage in Bride Street provided one all flowers and gilding, fit for the bird of paradise that she resembled


    15. He rested again until the sun was well up and gilding the great river with its splendor, and then he plunged into the stream


    16. In the chimney stood a pair of firedogs of iron, ornamented above with two garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered with silver leaf, which was a sort of episcopal luxury; above the chimney-piece hung a crucifix of copper, with the silver worn off, fixed on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the gilding had fallen; near the glass door a large table with an inkstand, loaded with a confusion of papers and with huge volumes; before the table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed from the oratory


    17. Gilding is gold


    18. In 1817, in the sidealleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling


    19. His massive couch, all covered with gilding, with great branches of lilies painted on the panels, thundered noisily along


    20. Beneath the gilding of heaven I perceive a poverty-stricken universe

    21. Rushworth’s guidance were shewn through a number of rooms, all lofty, and many large, and amply furnished in the taste of fifty years back, with shining floors, solid mahogany, rich damask, marble, gilding, and carving, each handsome in its way


    22. Varnish and gilding hide many stains


    23. It is a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs; no storms, no dust, can dim its surface ever fresh;—a mirror in which all impurity presented to it sinks, swept and dusted by the sun's hazy brush—this the light dust-cloth—which retains no breath that is breathed on it, but sends its own to float as clouds high above its surface, and be reflected in its bosom still


    24. It was the eighth year that, when visitors were present, she lay in lace and ribbons, surrounded with velvet, gilding, ivory, bronze, lacquer and flowers, never going out, and only, as she put it, receiving intimate friends, i


    25. Bowing and crossing themselves, they entered the empty church, which glistened with gilding


    26. For eight years she had reclined in laces and ribbons, amid velvet, gilding, ivory, bronzes and flowers


    27. The village painter was set at work on the new gilding of the chariots in the big barn


    1. The greater glory gilds the victor's crown


    2. She was fragile as the foliage in autumn; the radiance of heaven shone through her as the sun strikes athwart the withering leaves and gilds them


    3. The gentleman gilds the pill he would give us; but it is a slow poison that would creep upon us, and bring on a distemper heretofore unknown to us, that sooner or later would carry us to the grave


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    Synonyms for "gild"

    club gild guild lodge order social club society begild engild whitewash sugar-coat embellish electroplate overlay tinsel

    "gild" definitions

    a formal association of people with similar interests


    decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold