To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet. From LearnThat.org. [William Shakespeare (1564-1616).]
G has only the sound of g in give, get: gil ‘star’, in Gildor, Gilraen, Osgiliath, begins as in English gild. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
For the protection and regulation of this trade the organization known as the gild merchant had grown up in each town. From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England] Reference
According to what I read in a couple of dictionaries, "gild" means to decorate the outside of something, usually unnecessarily. From Wordnik.com. [Untwisted Vortex] Reference
The world "gild" is what the word "guild" is based on, which is usually an association formed for the protection or support of its members. From Wordnik.com. [Untwisted Vortex] Reference
To gild the far land where their homes were to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
This sun, whose javelins strike and gild the wheat. From Wordnik.com. [Ionica] Reference
Than the tear that Enjoyment can gild with a smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference
Shall gild the heav'ns, he need not urge the fight. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid English] Reference
M21 The London "frith-gild" under Athelstan, 925-940. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
And Night, and all the stars that gild her sable throne. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid English] Reference
And all the pageantries that gild the battle's crimson tide. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
"See how it seems to gild everything as the light rises, Dolly!". From Wordnik.com. [The Camp Fire Girls on the March Bessie King's Test of Friendship] Reference
Them will I gild with my treasure; them will I feed with my meat. From Wordnik.com. [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference
Perhaps the sky would clear itself, and the sun again gild her beauty. From Wordnik.com. [A Husband by Proxy] Reference
To gild glass these solutions are used in the following proportions by volume. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
'You said distinctly,' said Pauer, '"gild the boots that lace the golden legs."'. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
For, let her citizens gild the bitter pill as they may, the cradle of Derry -- the. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
The sun was beginning to gild the eastern heavens when they started to get breakfast. From Wordnik.com. [Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat] Reference
The first documentary evidence of the existence of the merchant gild appears in 1242. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
The growing exclusiveness of the merchant gild led to the great insurrection of 1312. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
T.B. can gild his steel scabbard by following the directions given on p. 106, vol. 34. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
Henry III. in 1227 (confirmed in 1318, 1370, 1380), which gave Bridgwater a gild merchant. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
If it is intended to gild soldered articles, the preliminary coating of copper is essential. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
I tried to gild the lily by reminding Mel that it would open him up to a whole new audience. From Wordnik.com. [Torme Gets Hip to 'Zaz Turned Blue'] Reference
In other cases the plays were performed by gilds founded especially for that purpose: gild of. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
Do not try to polish, paint, gild or otherwise improve the natural appearance of deer antlers. From Wordnik.com. [Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration] Reference
Just as the sun began to gild the water in their wake, Paul stuck his nose out of the blankets. From Wordnik.com. [On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland] Reference
All the splendors of the early morning are mine; they will gild the dull grey of my working hours. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Henry III. conferred several new rights and liberties, among which were a gild merchant with a hanse. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
If it is intended to gild work from the first, with the view of making an exceptionally fine job of it. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
Does success gild crime into patriotism, and the want of it change heroic self-devotion into imprudence?. From Wordnik.com. [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference
Forced to quit Paris for a time, he soon returned, supported in particular by the gild of the butchers and by the university. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
When the ruling members met in their gild-hall, (33) which they did once a month, "if they could and had leisure," they enjoyed. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
The deposit is said to be denser if the solution be heated as directed; but the bath will gild, though not quite so freely when cold. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
If the liquid stream of Fortune should gild him, it would make his happiness nothing greater, because money cannot change his nature. From Wordnik.com. [Horace and His Influence] Reference
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