I would imagine myself riding along in a gilded coach, with footmen in fine livery.
"The family is extinct, the house has been pulled down, and where it stood is now the stately poultry-house, with gilded weathercocks, and the old Poultry Meg.
Incense floated through the lofty painted and gilded aisles, where a solemn twilight reigned.
They look toward the castle, now so still and empty, but where formerly there were torch dances in the gilded halls; they look at the balcony from which King Christian so often gazed out over the 'court bridge' and down the narrow court-bridge street to his dovelet, the little Dutch girl he brought from the town of Bergen.
It had carved wood-work, like the Norwegian church; marble pillars, like the Grecian temple; bells in every story; and was crowned with cupolas, green and gilded, like those of the Kremlin of the Czar.
"He shall sing in the church, and stand among the beautiful gilded angels who are like him!
Her mother is the highborn, academy-trained emigrant' s daughter, with gilded rococo reminiscences.
Then the noble lady drove by towards the baron's mansion with her three daughters, in a gilded carriage drawn by six horses.
One had contained a gilded carriage and noble horses, and the other beautiful clothes; all of these Christina would now have in her new home at Copenhagen.
Rouge-pots, scent-boxes, and old cards, so large and so richly gilded, that none are ever seen like them in these days.
Out of his box, in which were the most beautiful colours, the old man took a quantity of shining leaf-gold, while the boys had to go and fetch some white of egg, with which the sparrow was to be smeared all over; the gold was stuck on to this, and the sparrow-mother was now gilded all over.
She wore a hat, and carried a crook, that were both gilded, and looked very bright and pretty.
We have seen them standing in the middle of a warm room, and adorned with all sorts of beautiful things,—honey cakes, gilded apples, playthings, and many hundreds of wax tapers.
The top, also, was no longer young; but there came a day when he looked handsomer than ever; for he was gilded all over.
The worms have gnawed the gilded wood, the spider has spun her web from the crown down to the sand, like a mourning banner, frail and transient as the grief of mortals.
That is not a fairy palace you see before you yonder, but a church: the gilded domes and shining orbs flash back my beams; the glorious bronze horses up yonder have made journeys, like the bronze horse in the fairy tale: they have come hither, and gone hence, and have returned again.
Splendid gilded cupolas rose over the roof, and between the pillars that surrounded the whole building stood life-like statues of marble.
