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gilding
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
