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Example sentences for "gold and"

  • Spain towered, a figure dressed in gold and red.

  • But still naked, but still unwise as to gold and spices, traders and markets.

  • I have seen but little of him myself, but our cellarer and treasurer have dealt largely with him, and report says that his house at York is so full of gold and silver as is a shame in any Christian land.

  • For they knew that in the gloomy heart of the mountain, the Metal King and his Spirits of the Mines wrought in gold and iron.

  • All I beg of thee is one bar of gold and a handful of the jewels that lie here.

  • Dig well thy garden and thy fields, sow them and tend them diligently, search the mountain-sides; and thou shalt gain through thine industry mines of gold and silver!

  • It was the design of Constantine to transplant the warlike colony from the Italian provinces to the Persian war; and the son of Melo distributed among the chiefs the gold and manufactures of Greece, as the first-fruits of the Imperial bounty.

  • The spoil was inestimable; many banners and crosses of gold and silver, precious stones, silver and gold chains, and innumerable suits of the richest armor and apparel.

  • Nor were the gifts concealed by them at court, which Siegfried gave them, gold and vesture; these they brought for the vassals of the three kings to see.

  • Then spake Hagen of Troneg: "My lady, be it told you that the king of the Rhineland hath such great store of gold and robes to give, that we have no need to carry hence aught of Brunhild's weeds.

  • It was often of flowers or leaves, but not infrequently of gold and silver.

  • Many of his regulations are characteristically Spartan; such as the prohibition of gold and silver, the common meals of the men, the military training of the youth, the gymnastic exercises of the women.

  • Gold and silver we will tell them that they have from God, and this divine gift in their souls they must not alloy with that earthly dross which passes under the name of gold.

  • A portable and universal standard of exchange was found in the coined and uncoined metals of gold and silver, which each captor, at home or abroad, might convert into the possessions most suitable to his temper and situation.

  • All these books are bound in velvet in different colours, though chiefly red, with clasps of gold and silver; some have pearls and precious stones set in their bindings.

  • Very good," said King Kaliko, nodding approval, for like all the nomes he loved treasures of gold and jewels.

  • He then commanded Kitticut and Garee to lay before the Nome King the bags of gold and jewels, and they obeyed, being helpless.

  • But in these mountains were mines of gold and silver, which the slaves of the King were forced to work, being confined in dark underground passages for that purpose.

  • In vain I may cover this magnificent bust with gold and diamonds, I shall still be your debtor.

  • Wonderful to the heroes Argo looked with her long oars and her high sails, with her timbers painted red and gold and blue, and with a marvelous figure carved upon her prow.

  • There he bestowed upon the banishers of the Harpies crowns and arm rings of gold and richly-colored garments and brazen chests in which to store the treasure that he gave.

  • The King should have his fifth part of all ore of gold and silver; the laws and religion of England should be upheld, and no man let go to Virginia who had not first taken the oath of supremacy.

  • It seems that he began to make it when he was a boy, and for many years worked upon it steadily until it was stiff as cloth of gold and voluminous as a puffed-out summer cloud.

  • As to mines of gold and silver, that first rich vision had proved a disheartening mirage.

  • Here they found Indians outside the Powhatan Confederacy, but no South Sea, nor mines of gold and silver, nor any news of the lost colony of Roanoke.

  • Most notable is this year 1619, a year wrought of gold and iron.

  • He was as anxious as any one to get back to those beautiful islands and hunt for gold and jewels.

  • If Columbus cannot find us gold and spices, they said, other men can.

  • I know, he said, if I could go off on my own hook I could find plenty of gold and pearls, and perhaps I could find Cathay.

  • The Indies and Cathay are full of gold and jewels; Columbus will bring you home shiploads of treasures.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acute attack; gold bullion; gold coins; gold ground; gold letters; gold medal; gold mining; gold pieces; gold production; gold reserve; gold snuff; gold would; golden apple; golden brown; golden calf; golden chain; golden crowns; golden hair; golden ring; golden seal; good profit; mild weather; order and; sliding down; speak more; ultimate success