Lexicographical Neighbors of Overgilded
Literary usage of Overgilded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"... and were taken out of themselves into a higher region than that of their daily
labours. all cunning drifts, overgilded with outward holiness, ..."
2. The Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould (1879)
"... he fabricated the curious works that are on the outside, and it adorned with
gold and with gems, also with silver overgilded, a priceless treasure. ..."
3. The Popular History of England by Charles Knight (1880)
"... all cunning drifts, overgilded with outward holiness, all stratagems of war,
all the canker-worms that breed on tlie rust of peace, are most lively ..."
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