buttercup-gilded

Updated: June 14, 2025

Philip stole cautiously forward, cap in hand, and then made a dab down to secure the brightly-painted prize; but, with one or two flaps from those gorgeous wings, it was out of reach, over the palings, and away across the buttercup-gilded meadow on the other side.

George Manville Fenn - Hollowdell Grange: Holiday Hours in a Country Home