This garment was confined at the waist by a massive belt of solid gold composed of square placques hinged together, and each elaborately sculptured with conventional representations of the sun.
Illustration: He induced them to build him a temple of solid gold.
He induced them to build him a temple of solid gold, and while they were doing this the river bed became choked up and the stream was diverted into another channel far from the town.
The temple of the Great Sloth was built of solid gold.
Famous in history is its throne, a worked nugget of solid gold, weighing 30 lbs.
The King of Gyáman became immensely rich by the produce of his mines; and, according to Bowdich, his bed had steps of solid gold.
His brave sister presently replaced it by a seat of solid gold: this the Ashanti again requisitioned, together with a large gold ornament in the shape of an elephant, said to have been dug from some ruins.
They had learned that the bracelet was of solid gold, with five small diamonds set in a row.
If it is solid gold it ought to be worth forty or fifty dollars.
Around one skate was a watch chain that appeared to be of solid gold.
The first monk in the procession bears a pot of solid gold, which one of the monks before the throne takes from him to fill the cup of the Tashi Lama.
Those who are rich wear large heavy ear-rings of solid gold and a few turquoises, but others simpler and smaller rings.
On these stand large silver gaos containing images of the gods, and before them smaller ones of solid gold, between bowls with offerings or wicks burning with a dull flame in butter.
At receptions the table is adorned with costly services in solid gold, gifts of the English nation to the victor of Africa (Illustration 6).
Her jewellery was all of solid gold; hollow gold and silver ornaments being only worn by the poor.
Among the extraordinarily lavish uses of gold and gems is a golden globe twenty inches in diameter, turning on a frame of solid gold.
But the main fact is that it is made of solid gold, and may weigh anywhere from one to two tons.
And the whole figure, weighing many pounds, seemed to be of SOLID GOLD!
In front of the main entrance are two guns of solid gold, weighing two hundred and eighty pounds each, and the carriages, ammunition wagons and other accoutrements are made of solid silver.
But their bodies are actually buried in the basement, and, the guides assert, in coffins of solid gold.
A coat of mail worn by Bani Singh, grandfather of the present rajah, is made of solid gold, weighing sixteen and a half pounds, and is lavishly decorated with diamonds.
Akbar the Great is buried in a coffin of solid gold in a mausoleum of exquisite beauty about six miles from Agra on the road to Delhi.
So he became a solid gold card-receiver, and the beautiful but terrible palace awaited its next visitor.
The Scarecrow is solid gold, and so is Tiktok; but I don't exactly know what the Tin Woodman is, because the Nome King said he had been transformed into something funny.
Solid gold is what I'm hunting for when I'm working," said Trask with a smile.
We are the prize boobs," he said, "if we've come here because a cracked old man thinks a beach is solid gold.
Not that I expect to find a solid gold island, but if it's off the coast of Luzon it might give me a lead to something up in the mountains.
The walls of the Palace were of coral, the trees had emeralds for leaves and rubies for berries, the fishes' scales were of silver, and the dragons' tails of solid gold.
The frame of the large globe is said to be of solid gold and so is the tripod stand, set in rubies and diamonds.
Enormous riches in solid gold, silver and jewellery are stored in the monastery and are daily increased by devout gifts.
The second, from the Webb Collection, is that of an ancient Greek ring, of solid gold, with the representation of a comic mask in high relief.
The following engraving represents a ring of duplex form, of solid gold, weighing 5-1/2 dwts.
To the right flowed a river of liquid gold, to the left rose high mountains of solid gold, in the centre lay a large meadow covered with millions of flowers.
It was supported on a cock's foot, and was built entirely of silver, except for its steel gates and roof of solid gold.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "solid gold" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
