Sentence examples for hoards of gold from inspiring English sources

Hoards of gold in north European myth are guarded by dragons.

Great hoards of gold and silver, a valley of diamonds, magical birds, ghouls, a wicked sorceress, men and women turned to stone and restored to life.

This year the Romans collected all the hoards of gold (14) that were in Britain; and some they hid in the earth, so that no man afterwards might find them, and some they carried away with them into Gaul.

Although the archaeologists have not found hoards of gold or splendid palaces, the stuff of dreams, expedition leaders now think they have established that the gold of Lydia is no legend.

Near it is a second, less substantially constructed building that is thought to have been the residential palace, since hoards of gold ornaments and other precious objects were discovered buried beneath it; the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann named these objects Priam's Treasure.

The witches seemed to have gone off somewhere, along with the silver axes and his magic beating stick and the geese and the giants and the swaying bean trees, along with the kings and their bejewelled, creamy daughters and their glittering hoards of gold.

He lives only for his growing hoard of gold, which is stolen from him one day.

The vicomte of Limoges refused to hand over a hoard of gold unearthed by a local peasant.

This version circulated until 1933, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as part of his response to the Depression, banned hoarding of gold.

This article was amended on 28 June, correcting the spelling of Silas Marner's hoard of gold.

And several miles south, Steve Martinez, who owns a slightly smaller hoard of gold, stared at his television in disbelief.