This final act of generosity is what she calls gilding the lily. From Wordnik.com. [Grilled Taleggio-Walnut Sandwich With Roasted Fall Grapes] Reference
The phrase gilding the lily comes to mind but it's more like drenching- in pure picante goodness!. From Wordnik.com. [Saturday Morning Egg Muffin Melts (Kalyn Gets Creative With Leftovers)] Reference
They are electro-gilt -- that is, the gilding is fixed on them by means of a bath through which an electric current passes. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
The "gilding" was in truth the trace of a spell so old that no one could say what folk had first cast it. From Wordnik.com. [Conan and The Mists of Door]
Yet there are many who pass through life without even realising what we may call the 'gilding' of the world -- the delights of colour. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
He practices a kind of gilding in his style of living, and hammers out every guinea into gold leaf. From Wordnik.com. [The Crayon Papers] Reference
It is called gilding by immersion. From Wordnik.com. [Samuel Brohl and Company] Reference
Its contents torn out, and script of its lettering and gilding. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
(The available power hardtop for 2007 seems like gilding the lily.). From Wordnik.com. [Final thoughts: Mazda MX-5 Miata] Reference
These excellent methods of silvering and gilding were discovered in. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
The same remark applies, though to a less degree, to Mosaic gilding. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
A small boat -- a frail thing of white and gilding -- floated at anchor. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Rustchuk; they are graceful in form and sometimes decorated with gilding. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
The gilding all stripped from the bauble which till then had made her happy. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
Sunrise was just gilding the sea: it flashed and sparkled as if there were no woe. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
Silver by laying a piece of zinc in contact with the article, the same as in gilding. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
I was now in a superb apartment, where everything was marble, jasper, or rich gilding. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
The village painter was set at work on the new gilding of the chariots in the big barn. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
A gilding powder is sometimes made from Dutch gold, which is sold in books at a very low price. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
And I shall set my care on this, that I may be of his gilding; nevermore will I complain of him. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
The new one strikes me as gilding the lily at best, and at worst makes driving it more complicated. From Wordnik.com. [Personal picks: Luxury SUVs, part 3] Reference
After the guardroom succeeds a series of rooms with much gilding, inlaid floors, and rich furniture. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
They set up in the Rue Vivienne, in a shop resplendent with gilding and ornamented with looking-glasses. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
For women are like books, -- too much gilding makes men suspicious, that the binding is the most important part. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Cucumber is possibly gilding the lily, but some like its refreshing crunch for a picnic or high-summer lunch box. From Wordnik.com. [Nigel Slater's classic cream cheese and smoked salmon bagel recipe] Reference
El Nino has brought life to California's Death Valley, where sunflowers are gilding the desert with golden petals. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Weather's Silver Lining] Reference
Inexperience may fail to recognise them and suffer for it; or the gilding of rank and fashion may win for such persons. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
The gallery has been thoroughly painted and beautified; and I never saw a place more radiant with gilding and frescoes. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
When the plastering was finished and the gilding applied, this would form, as seen from below, a handsome frame to the sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Many of our Broadway liquor-stores are, in point of gilding and decoration, equally splendid, but there all resemblance ceases. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The Cathedral and the other churches in the old town are in the Italian style, ornamented with gilding and variously-coloured marbles. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Gilt edges, however, are all that meet the eye; but turned by a skilful hand to the right light, the gilding vanishes, and a picture of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
In gilding or silvering, the article must be thoroughly cleaned, and great care must be taken that the water used is of the purest kind. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
The bowls are manufactured of clay in various forms; some being very plain, others really elegant, with abundance of gilding and ornament. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference
Russia, made casts by electro deposit, which caused him to be put in charge of the work of gilding the dome of St. Isaac at St. Petersburg. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference
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