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Updated: May 6, 2025
It was a glorious crystal clear day in autumn; all nature, aroused from her summer's rest, had put off her suit of hodden grey, and was flaunting in gaudiest green. For a time their way lay straight across the broad well-grassed plains, marked with ripples as though the retiring sea had but just left it.
Rick checked the summer colonies from the air, although he had little expectation of seeing anything unusual. Barby pointed down as they passed over one. "Look! Scotty, let me have the glasses." Both boys turned quickly. "What do you see?" Scotty asked. He handed her the glasses. "The gaudiest houseboat!" Barby exclaimed. "Jan, it's painted orange!" The boys snorted.
The purity of the taste of the Pompeians in decoration is, however, questionable: they were fond of the gaudiest colors, of fantastic designs; they often painted the lower half of their columns a bright red, leaving the rest uncolored; and where the garden was small, its wall was frequently tinted to deceive the eye as to its extent, imitating trees, birds, temples, etc., in perspective a meretricious delusion which the graceful pedantry of Pliny himself adopted, with a complacent pride in its ingenuity.
Or why, irrespective of all latitudes and longitudes, does the name of the White Sea exert such a spectralness over the fancy, while that of the Yellow Sea lulls us with mortal thoughts of long lacquered mild afternoons on the waves, followed by the gaudiest and yet sleepiest of sunsets?
Though none of the gaudiest, it was tolerably clean, and Martin felt very glad and grateful when he crept into it, for warmth, rest, and forgetfulness. It was quite late in the afternoon when he awoke; and by the time he had washed and dressed, and broken his fast, it was growing dusk again.
There are two classes of travelers I would strongly advise not to visit the crypt of the Capuchins' Church those who are just about to have dinner and want to have it, and those who have just had dinner and want to keep on having it. At the royal palace in Vienna we saw the finest, largest, and gaudiest collection of crown jewels extant.
They were two women; the first a negress, short, squat, and ugly, wearing a frock of the gaudiest yellow, and for head-dress a scarlet handkerchief, bound closely about her scalp and tied in front with an immense bow; the other but how shall I describe the other?
Coming so late as it did, it was a kind of Indian summer, with a mist in its balmiest sunshine, and decay and death in its gaudiest delight. The more Clifford seemed to taste the happiness of a child, the sadder was the difference to be recognized.
I wore the gaudiest clothing I could find; tunics and cloaks of pure silk and of the brightest or most effeminate hues; crimson, emerald-green, peacock-green, grass-green, apple-green, sea-green, sapphire-blue, sky- blue, turquoise-blue, saffron, orange, amethystine, violet and any and every unusual tint; boots of glazed kidskin or of dull finish soft skin, of hues like my silk garments, always with the edges of the soles heavily gilded.
A splendid car, drawn by white oxen, bore the rarest and gaudiest of foreign flowers and fruits, which young girls, dressed as Hours and Seasons, strewed in front of the procession and among the spectators. A long line of beautiful youths and maidens, crowned with garlands, and robed in scarfs of purple gauze, followed by two and two.
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