For however it may be thought all one, yet, if well considered, it will be found a quite different thing, to argue about gold in name, and about a parcel in the body itself, v.g. a piece of leaf-gold laid before us; though in discourse we are fain to substitute the name for the thing. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Stretched in the sun, washing ears and paws, they watched her through indolent leaf-gold eyes. ❋ Chadwick, Elizabeth (2004)
_ -- Reaumur asserts, that in an experiment he made, one grain of gold was extended to rather more than forty-two square inches of leaf-gold; and that an ounce of gold, which in the form of a cube, is not half an inch either high, broad, or long, is beat under the hammer into a surface of 150 square feet. ❋ Various (N/A)
I afterwards cut out nine square pieces of gauze of the same colors with the ribbons, and having put them one after another on a hoop of wood, with leaf-gold under them, the leaf-gold was attracted through all the colored pieces of gauze, but not through the white or black. ❋ Unknown (1904)
This glory he describes as “the leaf-gold which the devil has laid over the backside of ambition, to make it glitter to the world.” ❋ Minto, William, 1845-1893 (1879)
This glory he describes as "the leaf-gold which the devil has laid over the backside of ambition, to make it glitter to the world." ❋ William Minto (1869)
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. ❋ Unknown (1840)
When a great number of copies of the same volume are to be lettered, it is found to be cheaper to have a brass pattern cut with the whole of the proper title: this is placed in a press, and being kept hot, the covers, each having a small bit of leaf-gold placed in the proper position, are successively brought under the brass, and stamped. ❋ Charles Babbage (1831)
If the tooth has a small hole in it, it should be widened within by an instrument, and then stopped with leaf-gold, or leaf-lead; but should be extracted, if much decayed. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)
Pray be quite easy about me: I am entirely recovered, though, if change were bad, we have scarce had one day without every variety of bad weather, with a momentary leaf-gold of sun. ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)
I own too that Grignan is grander, and in a much finer situation, than I had imagined; as I concluded that the witchery of Madame de S ` evign ` e's ideas and style had spread the same leaf-gold over places with which she gilded her friends. ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)
_ You are an admirer of the dull French poetry, which is so thin, that it is the very leaf-gold of wit, the very wafers and whip'd cream of sense, for which a man opens his mouth, and gapes, to swallow nothing: And to be an admirer of such profound dulness, one must be endowed with a great perfection of impudence and ignorance. ❋ John Dryden (1665)
Then diffolve eight pounds of fupir in three quarts of rofe - water, and add to it the diftillcd liquor — This liquor derives its name of Gold Cordudf from a quantity of leaf-gold being formerly added to it; but this is now generally difufed, as it cannot poffibly add any viv - tue. ❋ Unknown (1797)
Perhaps it is felt most by the poor, with the rich it may be less intense -- too much diffused and spread out, becoming thin by expansion, like leaf-gold; the little of the poor may be not only more precious, but more pleasant to them: certain that bit of grassy and blossomy earth, with its green knolls and tufted bushes, its old pollards wreathed with ivy, and its bright and babbling waters, is very dear to me. ❋ Mary Russell Mitford (1821)
"Her Ouphs that, cloaked in leaf-gold, skim the breeze, ❋ Joseph Rodman Drake (1807)
