The branches of the fir gracefully depend, as if weighted downwards by the burden of the heavy deep green fringe they carry-a fringe tipped with bullion in the spring, for the young shoots are of so light a green as to shade into a pale yellow.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
The long wagon trains or pack trains of the traders carried with them all kinds of goods, but especially cotton, and brought back gold and silver bullion, bales of furs and droves of mules; and, moreover, they brought back tales of lawless adventure, of great gains and losses, of fights against Indians and Mexicans, and of triumphs and privations, which still further inflamed the minds of the Western men.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
Benton was the strongest hard-money man then in public life, being, indeed, popularly nicknamed "Old bullion."
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt