I will venture to say he feels more at home amid these gauds and giddy flowered damasks and soft cushions and numerous things the elect would term idols of the carnal sort," glancing around.
Then there was the trim foot with its fine shoe and steel buckle, all gauds of worldliness to be sure, but they would attract a man's eye.
Winona's assumption of carelessness had been meant to deceive passers-by into believing that she looked upon these gaudswith a censorious eye, and not as one meaning flagrantly to purchase of them.
And the hearts that throbbed so wildly For vain pleasure's dreams alone, For its gilded gauds and follies, Now at length have calmer grown.
It may be pleasure's roseate dreams Possess thy wayward heart, Its gilded gaudsfor better things Leaving alas!
The marbled Saint, so cold and pure, Minds naught of earthly ways; Nor can man's gauds entice or lure That fixed heavenly gaze.
I fear you will think I have suddenly grown servile to the gaudsand shows of mere royalty.
She was capricious, vain, aware of her beauty, and sighing for the pleasures or the gauds beyond her reach.
Why do nogauds those limbs adorn Where priceless gems were meetly worn?
The endless succession of shops where Fancy miscalled Folly is supplied with perpetual gauds and toys, excite in me no puritanical aversion.
Wherefore I have ordered the craftsman to have all thy gauds and gear ready at thine hostelrie, and I have engaged thee henchmen and horses for thy fitting appearance.
I am bound for Kioto, and the Mikado's Palace, to sell mygauds to the ladies of the Court.
Nor, love as he did the gorgeousness of wealth, was it mere transitory pomp, the gauds and trappings of the world, which he admired.
It is not my pleasure to advertise my quality by the gauds on my garb.
The majestic chamber with its marvellous carvings was filled with a company decked out with all the gauds and colours that fancy could conceive.
He had a store of jewels and gauds of the most costly kind, which were only in fraction his own, seeing that he had bought them (as the custom is) in partnership with other merchants.
The robe and the glittering gauds of which Phorenice had recently despoiled the merchant, drew the eyes of these people with keen attraction.
I have given no orders for this change, but to-night there are no perfumes in the air; the food is so plain and I have half a mind to burn the cook; and as for the clothes and gauds of these diners, by my face!
I can admire a man with a mind great enough to forego the silly gauds of clothes, or the excesses of feasts, or the pamperings of women.
There is raiment in all these chests which stand by the walls," said the girl, "and jewels and gauds in that bronze coffer.
The "purposed affectation" sprang from an unaffected delight in gauds of attire, gauds of fancy and expression.
She sold all her gauds and fine things and gave the money to the needy; she came often to the prayers and devoted herself to household stuff as was beseeming one in her situation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gauds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
