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Some of the museum objects now reported as missing are composed of stone or ungilded wood, which runs counter to Hawass'previous assumption that looters at the museum "were looking for gold" for the intrinsic value of that material, rather than seeking objects that are valuable as antiquities.

Lee Rosenbaum: Credibility Gap: Two Gilded King Tut Statues Among 18 Objects Purloined From Egyptian Museum Lee Rosenbaum 2011

Some of the museum objects now reported as missing are composed of stone or ungilded wood, which runs counter to Hawass' previous assumption that looters at the museum "were looking for gold" for the intrinsic value of that material, rather than seeking objects that are valuable as antiquities.

Lee Rosenbaum: Credibility Gap: Two Gilded King Tut Statues Among 18 Objects Purloined From Egyptian Museum Lee Rosenbaum 2011

Nigella is never a lady to leave a lily ungilded, so I barely raise an eyebrow at the cocoa powder in her recipe – after all, chocolate is a key ingredient in Mexican moles, so it's hardly as fanciful as the cardamom pods, an Indian spice which seems to pop up in just about everything she cooks.

How to cook perfect chilli con carne 2011

There was no veil of hypocrisy here, but a wickedness, frank, ungilded, and open.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

I have been eating pounds of "lilies" ungilded recently - just tossing with olive oil and roasting for a few minutes in a very hot oven, then finishing with black pepper and a squeeze of lemon juice.

The Asparagus Follies: Two Ways To Gild the Lily Lindy 2006

On the whole, though, it's a bit too much and the wonders of the explanations could be left ungilded as far as I'm concerned.

The Nothing that Is: A Natural History of Zero jinty 2007

Their lofty neighbour Bolt Head on the left remained as yet ungilded, and retained its gray.

A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

Chinese vases, marble slabs for tables, old and new furniture with curving lines, with griffins, sphinxes, and lions 'paws, gilded and ungilded, chandeliers, sconces, all were heaped together in a perfect chaos of art.

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

Those things I have seen, and in the ears of English men and English women, let me say, as one who knows, and fain would speak the plain, ungilded truth concerning friend and foe, that, not alone beneath the British flag are heroes found.

Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales

She did not stir to greet me; only transferred her stare from the gilded idol to dusty and ungilded me.

The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915