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  • So there will be antique coaches and hundreds of horses mounted with military riders in scarlet-and-gold uniforms, parading down The Mall as an estimated 1 million people line the street and millions more watch on giant screens set up in major parks.

    William and Kate plan modern wedding 2011

  • He stroked the phoenix's beautiful scarlet-and-gold plumage.

    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Rowling, J. K. 2000

  • The size of a swan, with magnificent scarlet-and-gold plumage, he swished his long tail and blinked benignly at Harry.

    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Rowling, J. K. 2000

  • Her destination, the ruin of a long-abandoned dragon-lair complex, was hardly more than a flaw in the silver-gilt sand beneath her scarlet-and-gold wings, but the pool beside it was visible at any height, reflecting the sky above like an unwinking cerulean eye.

    The Elvenbane Lackey, Mercedes 1991

  • Eric had hardly enough time to get his breath back before Terenil had him done up in a copy of his own scarlet-and-gold armor, facing him with sword in hand.

    Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • "Right," the mage answered, and Tarma waited impatiently as the figure of "Janna" blurred, became a rosy mist, and the mist solidified into a new guise-a very ordinary looking female fighter in the scarlet-and-gold livery of Char's personal guard.

    Oathbreaker Lackey, Mercedes 1989

  • "Give 'im a rest, lass," called another fighter lounging at an outside table, one wearing the same scarlet-and-gold livery as Arton.

    Oathbreaker Lackey, Mercedes 1989

  • On these occasions he goes in the royal barge, a gorgeously decorated affair, 150 feet in length, looking not unlike an enormous Venetian gondola, rowed by three-score oarsmen in scarlet-and-gold liveries.

    Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China 1918

  • Its marble floor is strewn with splendid rugs and tiger-skins; hanging from the ceiling are enormous cut-glass chandeliers; set in the walls, on either side of the scarlet-and-gold throne, are life-size portraits of the present Sultan's father and grandfather done in glazed Delft tiles, which seem more appropriate for

    Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China 1918

  • We passed up near the statue of St. Peter, who was to-day dressed out in his papal robes, his black face (for it is of bronze) looking rather frightful from beneath the splendid tiara which crowned his head, and the scarlet-and-gold tissue of his robes.

    Letters and Journals 01 Morse, Samuel F B 1914

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