Sentences with phrase «gold fever»

That should have been the first sign of gold fever.

He's got gold fever and doesn't care who knows it.

Richard Armitage gets more acting time as Thorin Oakenshield, who's paralyzed by gold fever and refuses to help dwarves fighting on the plains below.

It was declared a gold field on 22 September 1873 as gold fever gripped the region.

Gold fever around the world The metal's 10 - year bull run has given rise to all manner of new ventures seeking to mine it, buy it, sell it, hoard it, melt it down, even tell its story.

Gold fever reached such a pitch in 2008 that the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi served US$ 500,000 in gold flakes — roughly five kilograms — to its guests on top of desserts and in cocktails.

Christopher Columbus» half - crazed prophecies» visions of the earth's peoples streaming toward Jerusalem for one final crusade, funded by the soon - to - be discovered El Dorado» never amounted to much more than raw gold fever.

Before people caught gold fever and prospectors started heading the west, North Carolina was the first to get in on the action.

But by 1972 gold fever loosened its hold as mining activities ceased and attention turned to discoveries of gold reserves elsewhere.

While Apple capitalizes on gold fever, the company has required that third - party developers not use the color in any of their marketing materials.

As we follow her spirited heroine on a perilous journey north in the hold of a ship to the rough - and - tumble world of San Francisco and northern California, we enter a world whose newly arrived inhabitants are driven mad by gold fever.

Its claims to fame are numerous and include a heritage walk, a history that dates back to the 1880s gold - rush in South Africa (it played such a big role in the time of gold fever that it had its own stock exchange) and it's the home of Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, author of Jock of the Bushveld.

The region's incredible flora and fauna is being lost to gold fever.»

Once things calm down the film settles into its narrative... Thorin (Richard Armitage) has gotten «gold fever» and begins to distrust those around him.

We then cut to Erebor where Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) is behaving very out of character as the gold fever has him in its thrall — much to the despair of the rest of his company, especially Bilbo (Martin Freeman).

Verla Kay (Gold Fever and Iron Horses) writes many of her books in what she calls «cryptic rhyme,» which is her definition for stories composed in a sort of fill - in - the - gap verse, with lots of room for interpretation.

Gold Fever: How to Double Your Golden Gains Editor Greg McCoach reveals a little - known loophole to profit from the rising price of gold: It pays twice as much as other investments.

There are warning signs that this gold fever could end as badly as others: According to this Globe article (Link) buyers now outnumber sellers 5 to 1 and there is a ten-fold increase in interest in gold.

Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina, for instance, referred to the global commotion over digital currencies as a «gold fever» sweeping nations, and expressed misgivings over their use as a surrogate for money.