gold, golden

1. In addition to the idioms beginning with gold or golden, also see all that glitters is not gold; good as gold; heart of gold; silence is golden; worth one's weight in gold.

Example Sentences

Guessing her new master’s desires, she reaches: “Girls? Gold? Golden girls?”

From New York Times

I saw it first upon an afternoon when no air was stirring, even in the poplars, when the green of Touraine was changing to gold: golden fruit, pears, and apples, where summer's fruit had been; golden leaves flickering down from high branches, or raked into golden heaps; while the faint, sweet smoke of burning twigs hovered in the autumn day.

From Project Gutenberg

White—red and white—white and gold—golden hair—volumes of it—every kind.

From Project Gutenberg

The Peruvians called the ore in their language of imagery “the tears wept by the sun;” and these tears they toiled to gather, and their artificers worked them up with a cunning skill under the direction of the priests; and, as if to complete the wonders of the temple, and to give it adornments that should never lose their lustre, never fade, it was surrounded by an Aladdin-like garden whose plants were gold—golden of leaf, silver of stem, and with flowers sparkling in combinations of the two metals.

From Project Gutenberg

"Dr. Henry Schliemann, in 1876, made rich discoveries there, weapons, ornaments, vessels of gold, silver and clay," skeletons "surrounded by bands of gold, golden shovels engraved with battle-scenes," etc.

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