Word: gold
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...there are some books that we want to have by us, and in our own libraries, yet are unable to pay the outrageous prices asked for them. It makes little difference if I read Lamb in full Russia, blue and gold, or the abominable yellow cover; in point of fact, one enjoys a novel or essay quite as much when the cover can be turned back and the book rather familiarly used. The imposing libraries that impart an air of wonderful erudition to the regal house of many a merchant, do their only duty in doing as much as this...
Midst the purple and gold of the sun's setting gleam...
...Gold in every torrent pours...
With thy hair of gold, whose locks unfold...
...dearly I bought her with gold...