In it the influence of the enfeebled Roman style is much stronger; the detail is far less refined and decorative, in spite of a copious use of burnished gold.
Manuscripts written in burnished gold, on vellum stained with the brilliant purple from the murex shell, were largely produced, especially for the private use of the Byzantine Emperors.
Whose this second ponderous weapon stout and massive in the hold, On the staff are worked by artists elephants of burnished gold?
The latter is almost always of a squared or tabular design, traced and painted on a ground of burnished gold.
In the twelfth century when, as far as we know, the word illuminator was first applied to one who practised the art of book decoration, it meant one who "lighted up" the page of the book with bright colours and burnished gold.
She wore a beautiful gold-coloured vest, and over all a bright-tinted mantle, plaited fivefold on its upper border, and fastened at the neck with a brooch of burnished gold.
Their colour is the colour of burnished gold; they have the taste of honey; and if a wounded warrior or a man in deadly sickness eat of them, he is cured immediately.
They wore mantles of scarlet satin, and each mantle was fastened in front by a brooch of burnished gold.
The Versals ("Pp") in burnished gold; the rest in red or blue.
Prompt at the summons thousands flew To cars which noble coursers drew, Bright-gleaming, glorious to behold, Adorned with wealth of burnished gold.
There with his lofty peaks upraised Bright as a hundred suns he blazed, And crest and crag of burnished gold Flashed on the flood that round him rolled.
With faultless lip and nose and eye, Dear as the moon that floods the sky With gentle light, of perfect mould, She seemed a thing of burnished gold, Though on her cheek the traces lay Of tears her hand had brushed away.
A bracelet with wrought links burnished on a dead ground; the clasp a heart of burnished gold with a turkois in the centre, graven with Hebrew characters.
To-morrow we shall either be on our backs gaping for the death-fee, or pressing our lips to nothing meaner than a chalice of burnished gold.
Who was that beau, Beth, that wrote about your 'waves of burnished gold'?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burnished gold" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
