aureate

We are apt to associate it with the prolix statements of policy makers and the aureate pomposity of evangelists.

The Syntax of Style

Now the city, with all its meaningless wonders, its mind-wracking vistas, and its fantastic inhabitants, was falling behind him; he could relax once more with the spectacle of those calm, magnificent peaks, gilded by the faintly aureate glow of the eternal dawn.

Tin

I conjecture that your professor uses aureate palaver to augment the appraised merit of your edification.

Waldo Jaquith - 5 words my poetry professor used during today’s lecture.

Above it were the roller and bee-eater and hoopoe, all fabulously Mediterranean with hot aureate colors that were not, even in the late 1960s, permitted in Britain yet, except under license to the kingfisher.

A Year on the Wing

And we sit in aureate judgment, in the glow of well-deserved pride, for our rightness has returned rightness, and the criminal has died.

A Poem Draft

And we sit in aureate judgment, in the glow of well-deserved pride, for our rightness has returned rightness, and the criminal has died.

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From them came the gem fires piercing the aureate mists.

The Metal Monster

From the flaming crimson center to aureate, flashing penumbra it was instinct with and poured forth power — power vast and conscious.

The Metal Monster

Then drawn perhaps by my gaze, she dropped her eyes upon me; golden, translucent, with tiny flecks of amber in their aureate irises, the soul that looked through them was as far removed from that flaming out of the priestess as zenith is above nadir.

The Moon Pool

Their wide gray irises were flecked with golden amber and sapphire — flecks that shone like clusters of little aureate and azure stars.

The Metal Monster