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"Gaud" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the weekday sun To make the full-orbed consecrated fruit At life's end for the Sabbath supper meet. I shall not sit beside you at that feast, For ere a seedling of my golden tree Pushed off its petals to get room to grow, I stripped the boughs to make an April gaud And wreathe a spendthrift garland for my hair. But mine is not the failure God deplores; For I of old am beauty's votarist, Long recreant, often foiled and led astray, But resolute at last to seek her there Where most she does abide, and crave ...

— Gloucester Moors and Other Poems • William Vaughn Moody

... effects with the art of a Circe. Her rounded arms and bare shoulders, faultless throat and swelling bosom, radiant enough in their own fair perfection, she had embellished with such jewels as subtly served to accentuate even that perfection. Upon one polished forearm a bracelet was pressed, a gaud formed from one immense emerald cut in a fashion that forced one to doubt the existence of such a cutter in mortal form. About her neck a rope of exquisitely matched black pearls supported a single uncut emerald which might have been born in the same matrix with that on her arm. ...

— The Pirate Woman • Aylward Edward Dingle

... SATAN: Give me your gaud. Then meet me at any hour between star-shining and cock-crow under the big cherry tree, when the ...

— Plays of Near & Far • Lord Dunsany

Words linked to "Gaud" : adornment, gaudy, fallal, trinketry, bauble, gewgaw, novelty