Sentence examples for gold lay from inspiring English sources

Historically, the boundaries of South African mines followed those of the farms under whose land the gold lay.

According to Moore, the technicians operating the R.O.V. were eager to position it over areas where they believed gold lay.

The allure of gold lay in its lustre, its refusal to tarnish and its readiness to be worked.

AMONG the attractions that led the conquistadors to hazard their lives on the Atlantic, alongside dreams of mountains of silver and men slicked head to foot in gold, lay the thought of a fountain of perpetual youth.

They were kings, respectively, of Arabia and Nubia, Godolia, and Tarsus, and hence their gifts: for gold lay so thick in Arabia's red earth that you kicked it up as you walked, incense dripped from the trees of Godolia, and you could not wander in parts of Tarsus without myrrh, "moist as wax", clinging to your clothes.In fact, being kings, they brought a good deal more.

A 3-foot sword with a handle made of ivory and overlaid in gold lay at the warrior's left chest.

But the gold lies not in new building.

South Africa's gold lies deep; some shafts go down three kilometres (1.9 miles).

There is gold lying on the ground, Mr. Stephens preached to the Coles, who required no conversion.

The real gold lies in the episodes of hypnotic factory clunking.

Indeed, the gold lies not at the end of the rainbow but under the ground.