Crossword-Solution: AURIFEROUS 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

She need never tremble in secret lest she might sometime stretch a point in Thea’s favor.—Oh, the comfort, to a soul too zealous, of having at last a rose so red it could not be further painted, a lily so truly auriferous that no amount of gilding could exceed the fact! Tillie hurried from her bedroom, threw open the doors and windows, and let the morning breeze blow through her little house.

Beyond the craters rise worn, auriferous hills of a quiet sort, tumbled together; a valley full of mists; whitish green scrub; and bright, small, panting lizards; then Jimville.

The great excitement over the gold discoveries was thus felt in Milan, and these wagons, laden with all the worldly possessions of their owners, were watched out of sight on their long journey by this fascinated urchin, whose own discoveries in later years were to tempt many other argonauts into the auriferous realms of electricity.

Another reason that made it more easy for Erewhon to remain unknown, was the fact that the more mountainous districts, though repeatedly prospected for gold, had been pronounced non-auriferous, and as there was no sheep or cattle country, save a few river-bed flats above the upper gorges of any of the rivers, and no game to tempt the sportsman, there was nothing to induce people to penetrate into the fastnesses of the great snowy range.

And of this she was perfectly ignorant! He recovered himself quickly, and said with a smile:-- "But I discovered the ledge and its auriferous character myself.