gold-worked

• “He picked up his big leather over-belt with its gold-worked pouches and cinched it over the magnificent tunic.”

  Fictionaut: Men Don't Leave Me

• “So I walked up and came upon a place pargetted with marble and spread and hung with gold-worked carpets and tapestry, amiddlemostof which stood a throne of juniper wood inlaid with pearls and precious stones and set with bosses of emeralds.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “His head was uncovered save by long grey ringlets held in place by a broad band of gold-worked purple tapestry.”

  Simon & Schuster: Antony and Cleopatra

• “The king complied, sunk in moody thoughts, and Pelias led the way out of the chamber and up a flight of marble, gold-worked stairs that let out on the pinnacle of the citadel, the roof of the tallest tower.”

  Wings in the Night

• “He saw divans of rich satin, gold-worked footstools of ivory, a disk-shaped table of some massive, metal-like substance.”

  The Conquering Sword of Conan

• “The woman drew a booted foot out of the silver stirrup and swung down from the gold-worked saddle.”

  The Conquering Sword of Conan

• “Standing in the middle of the courtyard in his gold-worked white coat with his fists on his hips, Valda turned in a tight circle.”

  Knife of Dreams

• “This was furnished in oriental style, with couches and rugs and gold-worked drapery, but was empty of human life.”

  The Moon of Skulls

• “The patterns on the gold-worked curtains ran up and down, melting and reforming as the folds shook and quivered to the night wind; and when the talk grew more earnest the jewelled forefinger snapped out little sparks of light between the embroideries.”

  Kim

• “There in old times had ruled the magician Thugra Khotan, high priest of Set the Old Serpent, and his tomb still reared its gold-worked marble crest above the ruins.”

  The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian

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