Aureate

I conjecture that your professor uses aureate palaver to augment the appraised merit of your edification. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We are apt to associate it with the prolix statements of policy makers and the aureate pomposity of evangelists. ❋ Henry Hitchings (2010)

Now the city, with all its meaningless wonders, its mind-wracking vistas, and its fantastic inhabitants, was falling behind him; he could relax once more with the spectacle of those calm, magnificent peaks, gilded by the faintly aureate glow of the eternal dawn. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Above it were the roller and bee-eater and hoopoe, all fabulously Mediterranean with hot aureate colors that were not, even in the late 1960s, permitted in Britain yet, except under license to the kingfisher. ❋ TIM DEE (2009)

And we sit in aureate judgment, in the glow of well-deserved pride, for our rightness has returned rightness, and the criminal has died. ❋ Unknown (2005)

From them came the gem fires piercing the aureate mists. ❋ Unknown (2004)

From the flaming crimson center to aureate, flashing penumbra it was instinct with and poured forth power — power vast and conscious. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Then drawn perhaps by my gaze, she dropped her eyes upon me; golden, translucent, with tiny flecks of amber in their aureate irises, the soul that looked through them was as far removed from that flaming out of the priestess as zenith is above nadir. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The sea of crimson lacquer, with its floating moons of luminous colour — this bow of prismed stone leaping to the weird isle crowned by the anomalous, aureate excrescence — the half human batrachians-the elfland through which we had passed, with all its hidden wonders and terrors — I felt the foundations of my cherished knowledge shaking. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He pointed to the aureate dome wherein sat the Three — and then I saw! ❋ Unknown (2004)

Their wide gray irises were flecked with golden amber and sapphire — flecks that shone like clusters of little aureate and azure stars. ❋ Unknown (2004)

By this time, the air under the lee of the stone was growing smoky and oppressive, for the fire, with its flames looking like a bouquet compounded of red poppies or azaleas and blooms of an aureate tint, had begun fairly to live its beautiful existence, and was blazing, and diffusing warmth, and laughing its bright, cheerful, intelligent laugh. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Deeper, one burned a rare golden color that washed the wooden walls with an aureate shine. ❋ Coleman, Loren L. (1999)

These colors, falling upon the throng of monomachists and loungers much as we see the aureate beams of divine favor fall on hierarchs in art, lent them an appearance insubstantial and thaumaturgic, as though they had all been produced a moment before by the flourish of a cloth and would vanish into the air again at a whistie. ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1980)

Where spangled with the broom's bright aureate flowers. ❋ Various (N/A)

At an early hour, rich aureate hues yet streaking the east, our party were duly seated in a roomy carriage of Angrasani's, on their way to Rome. ❋ A Bushman (N/A)

She was confident of April because she was confident of life, lapped in an aureate glow that seemed to suffuse the very air she drew into her lungs so that it intoxicated her like the breath of a diviner ether from Olympian heights. ❋ Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse (N/A)

Scottish story, more or less alchemizing, -- communicating an aureate hue even to the wool of the sheep which it washes, and turning all its fish into 'John Dorées.' ❋ Various (N/A)