Citations:engolden

English citations of engolden

Engolden.
- a. 1854, P. F. Roe (uncertain), Proëm, verse 21:
  Hived Hill, that teem’st with yellow wealth untold,
  
  The rich Australia of translucent gold,
  
  Pregnant with many a vegetable mine,
  
  And secret cell of softest saccharine! —
  
  Hail, dulcet ore, distill’d from mellowest bowers, —
  
  Of fragrant taste, — the syrupy bloom of flowers! —
  
  The floral richness of engolden’d dells, —
  
  The marrow of the painted Asphodels!
- 1873, William Henry Karslake, The theory of prayer, page 87:
  Blessings on his family and household, blessings on his friends and relations, blessings showered abundantly on himself, engolden the life of the man of prayer.
- 1880, Arthur Mursell, Addresses to the working people of Birmingham, page 198:
  […] it could only be because the devil has so effectually sustained his claim upon them that no sunshine could engolden them, and no heaven could hold them.
- 1883, Charles Harpur, Early Summer, verse 1:
  ‛TIS the early Summer season, when the skies are clear and blue, —
  
  When wide warm fields are glad with corn as green as ever grew,
  
  And upland growths of wattles engolden all the view.
- 1897, Pearee Mohun Choudry, The Present Paradise, page 229:
  Science and industry are the Philosopher’s stones which engolden one’s circumstances; but they cannot engolden one’s self.
- 1907, Arthur Stringer, The Woman in the Rain: And Other Poems, page 7:
  Yet I shall know her as she was of old,
  
  Fashioned of moonlight and Ægean foam;
  
  Some visionary gleam, some glory strange
  
  Shall day by day engolden her lost face;
  
  The slow attrition of the years shall wear
  
  No luring charm away, and she shall live
  
  A lonely star, a gust of music sweet,
  
  A voice upon the Deep, a mystery!
- a. 1916, Brookes More, The Beggar’s Vision, verses 1–2:
  The blessed angel, Israfil,
  
  On Alicon’s engolden’d hill,
  
  Heard by the saints when night is still — [¶]
  
  [¶] Ten thousand, thousand joyous notes,
  
  Sweet as when through the forest floats
  
  The silvery joys of feathered throats.
- 1930, Victor Wallace Germains, The Kitchener Armies: The Story of a National Achievement, page 301:
  Chivalry will take it to her bosom, Romance will lend to it her soft engoldenment, History will enmesh it with her fairy-like enchantment.