gild

For which we lose our heads to gild his horns.

They were neither the first nor the last to gild the name of thief.

A glow from the Eagle reached to gild the sky.

And then, sir, only consider how such conduct will gild the future scenes of life.

But he is not one to shift blame or gild the lily.

Go on - for your Christmas pudding, gild the lily.

Maybe that's why the money has not yet been found to gild the tarnished dome.

Let us not gild the lily; slaves was what we were, Fran thought.

Life is a circle and love is what gilds it.

Dearer than the whole world would she be to him and gild his days with happiness.

There is no way to gild the lily on this, so guess I won't even try.

"She's got such a beautiful voice to begin with that she doesn't need to gild the lily."

There seems to be a tendency among young hotel chefs these days to gild the lily.

Somehow time had failed to gild the memories brought back by these handwritten words.

"I'm the only man in this ship that can gild proper, that's why!"

No need to gild the lily with white chocolate.

Look how they gild some of those tramps in Hollywood."

In the trade gilds there were apprentices, companions and masters.

"Yeah, maybe he can gild the table, or something."

Provincial people like that never knew when to stop; they could be counted on, so to speak, to try to gild the lily.

But they gild the lily because these works are drawings in themselves, caught halfway between two and three dimensions.

When he wondered if he could gild the roof, she set him straight on that, too.

Not enough, even, to gild it like a goldfinch.

At the very least he would probably gild the place from basement to mansard, and beyond that, who knew what to imagine?

Originally, this was also associated with the award, the privilege to gild the armor.