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- adjective Obsolete form of
golden .
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Examples
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Polytricon, or goulden lockes and such like, which vse to grow in decayed buildings, and ould stone wales, so that many woorthie peeces were inuested and hydden from me, with such like weedes and greene
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Hauing vpon his head a crowne of black stone as iet: his teeth eyes and nayles siluered and standing vpon a sepulcher couered like an arke, of scale woorke, and other exquisite lyneaments, poynting with a goulden scepter, and holding forward his arme to giue direction to the former part.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Coxon concludes to goe upp to the goulden Islands and to travill over land to Pannamau, otherwise to a place which the Indians tolde us of, cal'd Toca Mora. all our English concluded to goe, but capt Lessoone and capt Jno.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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The Journall of our Intended Voyage by the assistance of God over land into the South seas leaveing our ships att the goulden Islands, and landing on Munday Apr'll the fift, Annoque 1682.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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Here are her reflections on a pineapple: "I think the price of a pine-apple is very dear: it is a whole bright goulden guinea, that might have sustained a poor family."
Stories of Childhood Various 1885
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If you give a man ten hundred thousand goulden sovereigns, and you says,
A Dream of the North Sea James Runciman 1871
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Here are her reflections on a pineapple: -- "I think the price of a pineapple is very dear: it is a whole bright goulden guinea, that might have sustained a poor family."
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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"You'll not find me a sending my Liz and Nan," cried Mrs Morris, "no, not if her was to offer me a hundred goulden guineas."
The Carbonels Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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She's bad enough as it is, with her dreams and her methodee fancies, and her visions of cities with goulden gates and precious stones.
North and South Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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_ Miss, thic be the young man that ha got'n the goulden prize.
Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden Thomas Morton 1801
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