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  • The moment the door closed behind Lord Falk, Tagaza, with a huge sigh of relief, tugged a cloth-of-gold kerchief from his puffy blue sleeve and mopped his tattooed pate with it.

    The first sentence I wrote today… ewillett 2009

  • Her robe was cloth-of-gold and had a train more than two yards long.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • Her robe was cloth-of-gold and had a train more than two yards long.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • Her robe was cloth-of-gold and had a train more than two yards long.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • However, the man who took things in hand was Azeemoolah Khan, a tall, handsome, light-skinned exquisite in a cloth-of-gold coat and with a jewelled aigret in his turban, who stepped smiling across the carpet with his hand out.

    Fiancée 2010

  • Her robe was cloth-of-gold and had a train more than two yards long.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • The only mystery was a kind of lacy gold house, in which were placed the mummified bodies of two infants wrapped in cloth-of-gold.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • The only mystery was a kind of lacy gold house, in which were placed the mummified bodies of two infants wrapped in cloth-of-gold.

    Relics Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • He had no call to be a quack; there was no earthly reason why he should inundate the newspapers with puffs, and wear impossible trousers, or cloth-of-gold waistcoats, cut diagonally.

    Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef 2007

  • The king in gilded armor stood with the queenmother on the bow of the first galley, under a canopy of cloth-of-gold.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

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