Gilding

Examples

• There were painted white chairs, with gilding and wreaths on them, and some lingering red silk damask with slits in it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Ginevra seconded me; between us we half-changed the nature of the _r?le_, gilding it from top to toe. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Space will not permit the enumeration of the vast variety of processes and machines for coating and gilding that have since followed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I suppose I was truly tempted by the mere gilding of the bait. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I suppose they are those heavy ones, sir,' said Oliver, pointing to some large quartos, with a good deal of gilding about the binding. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• They were covered with gilding, and resembled the shoe of a Chinaman. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The gilding of the Indian summer mellowed the pastures far and wide. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• In the same year he superintended the gilding, by electro-plate, of the iron dome of the Cathedral of St. Isaac at St. Petersburgh, using 274 pounds of ducat gold. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Its altar, like that of all the Greek churches, is a lofty screen that extends clear across the chapel, and is gorgeous with gilding and pictures. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• No paint or dye can give so splendid a colour as gilding. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Fizeau ingeniously contrived to fix the images on the plate by gilding it. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It did not occur to him, however, that any use could be made of that mode of gilding, and the experiment had no result. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Varnish and gilding hide many stains. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.

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