"Gilt-edged" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... honour the proposal! The coward was writing gay letters to his friends this while, with sneering allusions to this poor foolish Bramine. Her ship was not out of the Downs, and the charming Sterne was at the "Mount" Coffee-house, with a sheet of gilt-edged paper before him, offering that precious treasure his heart to Lady P——, asking whether it gave her pleasure to see him unhappy? whether it added to her triumph that her eyes and lips had turned a man into a fool?—quoting the Lord's ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray
... in silence, till suddenly Mr Temple's eyes lit upon the top of the gilt-edged cigar-case sticking out of ...
— Menhardoc • George Manville Fenn
... 1903, and carried the great Land Act of that year. Under the Wyndham Act the system of cash payment to the landlord, dropped since 1891, was resumed, on a basis calculated to give a selling landlord a sum which, invested in gilt-edged 3 or 31/4 per cent. stocks, would yield him as much as the second term judicial rents on the holdings sold, less 10 per cent., representing his former cost of collection; while the annuity payable by the tenant in lieu of rent was reduced from 4 to 31/4 per cent., of which 21/2 per cent, was interest ...
— The Framework of Home Rule • Erskine Childers
... ruined grace that had made him so suddenly, and almost without cause, give utterance, in Basil Hallward's studio, to the mad prayer that had so changed his life? Here, in gold-embroidered red doublet, jewelled surcoat, and gilt-edged ruff and wrist-bands, stood Sir Anthony Sherard, with his silver-and-black armour piled at his feet. What had this man's legacy been? Had the lover of Giovanna of Naples bequeathed him some inheritance of sin and shame? Were his own actions merely the dreams that the dead ...
— The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde
... man took a square, gilt-edged card from a drawer by his side, filled it out at Lutchester's dictation, rang the bell, and ...
— The Pawns Count • E. Phillips Oppenheim
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