Example sentences of "in [adj] [conj] gold " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keith also got a Merit certificate for this ‘ Amaryllis ’ study , a powerful presentation with an attractive complementary mount in brown and gold . |
| 2 | It was papered in white and gold . |
| 3 | Ballads and rhymes , some by Masefield , were illustrated in black and gold by Jack Yeats . |
| 4 | Of the same date as the vaulting in the nave are the organ and many of the side altars decorated in black and gold . |
| 5 | He had them set up his bier at the end of the hall , draped in black velvet , and its handles tasselled in black and gold . |
| 6 | And the next night the backdrop was ‘ A Night in Spain ’ , and there was Stella II , it was his very first night , all done up in black and gold lace with an underskirt of violent red , a red Elizabeth the First wig for some reason and a real red rose , it was sensational , and it was his first night too , Stella II doing ‘ Te Amo ’ till the tears ran down his face . |
| 7 | The Prior , resplendent in black and gold vestments , stood arms outstretched , and intoned the Introit : ‘ Requiem aeternam . |
| 8 | It is a large insect , strikingly coloured in black and gold , which lives mainly in North America . |
| 9 | Alexandra nodded and went quietly up the stairs and down the landing , past the bowls of pot-pourri and prints of wild flowers framed in black and gold , to her own room . |
| 10 | He had put off his armour , and rode in black and gold , with high gauntlets of purple leather , and a fine , extravagant capuchon in the same purple draped and twisted into a flaunting hat that drooped a long liripipe about his shoulders . |
| 11 | But the four-poster dominated this room , too , draped in grey and gold . |
| 12 | At one side was the royal enclosure with row after row of wooden seats , all covered in purple or gold cloth . |
| 13 | Sparsely furnished in keeping with the austere , scholarly traditions of the Annamese mandarinate , it was dominated by the family 's ancestral altar , which consisted of three tables of different heights lacquered in red and gold . |
| 14 | He imagined it as it would be , centred in red and gold on a black flag , high on a standard , waving in the wind over the stadiums where they would hold their rallies , a symbol of a proud and new Germany , the Fatherland in its true glory . |
| 15 | The Military Household was responsible for overseeing the personal safety of the sovereigns , which at the beginning was entrusted to the Guides , a cavalry regiment rigged out in green and gold , numbering 1,000 , whose Colonel was Prince Joachim Murat . |
| 16 | The office was linked to , but separate from , that of Chief Huntsman ( Grand Veneur ) , whose staff consisted of Captains and Lieutenants resplendent in green and gold , whose duty it was to organize the Imperial hunts , particularly — during the autumn season — those which were held at Compiègne . |
| 17 | When used for day service , the furnishing comprised three easy chairs , upholstered in green and gold tapestry , one oval centre table in mahogany with inlay of tulip wood and satin wood and two folding side tables . |
| 18 | The two sections of the room were divided by projecting piers formed of mahogany glass-fronted bookcases from which sprang a canopy of three semi-circular arches decorated and painted in green and gold . |
| 19 | Added to the Ma'badong there were now also spontaneous explosions of Pa'gellu dancers , young girls dressed in green and gold and the most fashionable jewellery of the time — hollow Taiwanese watches , without their works , which some enterprising pirate had no doubt made a killing on . |
| 20 | Undoubtedly it was going to be a beautiful day , a summer 's day such as is unequalled anywhere in the world but in the South of England , a day that begins with mists , burgeons into tropical glory and dies in blue and gold and stars . |
| 21 | One in particular , about a metre high , pale lemon in colour , was ornamented with neo-classical bandings in blue and gold . |
| 22 | He also owned the world 's largest group of works by James Abbott McNeill Whistler , including the American expatriate 's only surviving interior , ‘ Harmony in Blue and Gold : the Peacock Room ’ . |
| 23 | Seventy men of the 2nd Battalion , Coldstream Guards , parade in full review as the Guard of Honour , resplendent in scarlet and gold . |
| 24 | See , in the centre there , the standard in scarlet and gold . |