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No one would be at liberty from school but Allen, and he declined the oil and lamp-black even though warmed up with iodine. "Could it not be done by deputy?" said Bobus; "we might blacken the little fat boy riding on a swan, the statue, I mean." "What, and gild the swan, to show how far his golden goose can carry him?" said Jock.
In spite of his aberrations of intellect, if there were any such, his ministrations in his parish were good. Had he not preached fervently and well, preaching the true gospel? Had he not been very diligent among his people, striving with all his might to lessen the ignorance of the ignorant, and to gild with godliness the learning of the instructed?
This horse, after being carried by Domenico so near completion that there only remained to gild it, was left in that condition, because His Majesty after all did not at that time go to Siena, but left Italy after being crowned at Bologna; and the work remained unfinished.
What began as a natural alliance was used later as a means of enforcing responsibility and keeping lawless individuals in order. When the association of kinsmen failed, the voluntary associations guilds appeared as substitutes. The gild brothers associated in mutual defence and support, and they had to share in the payment of fines.
So, indeed, they are; but the blame must rest on the sombre spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a single thread of rose-color or gold, and not on me, who have a tropic-love of sunshine, and would gladly gild all the world with it, if I knew where to find so much.
Seraph and saint from their glory shall heed ye, The angel that smote the Assyrian shall lead ye; To the Christ of the Cross man is never so holy As in braving the proud in defence of the lowly! Breeze fill our banners, sun gild our spears, Spirito Santo, Cavaliers!
We had drifted northward far from our course, our two consorts had disappeared, and we had well-nigh given up hope, when with the dawning of the third day the wind lulled, and through the ragged clouds we saw the blue arch of heaven high above us. I had climbed out upon the deck alone; and from a sheltered corner I saw the sun rise and gild a far-off strip of shore that lay to west of us.
If she will not do that, it is certainly not worth while to commit a dishonourable action for her sake. The couple who marry and keep the fact a secret because they are afraid of losing some one's money if they tell the truth, would have done better to wait, or to tell each other that love was not good enough without the wherewithal to gild it.
Do we congratulate ourselves on our own cleverness, tact, and skill, saying, 'mine hand hath done it, or do we hug ourselves on our own good fortune, and burn incense to chance and 'circumstances'? or, sadder still, are we generously grateful to every human friend that helps us, and unthankful only to God or does the glad thought come, to gild the finest gold of our possessions with new brilliance and worth, and to paint and perfume the whitest lily of our joys with new delightsomeness, 'All things come of Thee'; 'Thou makest us drink of the river of Thy pleasures'? Blessed are they who, by the magic glass of a thankful heart, see all things in God, and God in all things.
On the annual gild day, or more frequently, the members all gathered at their hall or some inn to a feast, which varied in luxuriousness according to the wealth of the fraternity, from bread, cheese, and ale to all the exuberance of which the Middle Ages were capable.