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O sweet are the scenes of my boyhood's sunny years That bespangle the gay valley o'er; And dear are the friends, seen through memory's fond tears, That have lived in the blest days of yore.

From Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel by Glazier, Willard W.

Those orbs, seemingly countless—which bespangle the dark robe of night—have a charm and beauty of their own apart from the significance with which the science of astronomy has invested them.

From Myths and Marvels of Astronomy by Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony)

Like fireflies that bespangle the darkness of the night, humor scintillates through all life’s phases and activities and causes the day to go more pleasantly and effectively on.

From The Vitalized School by Pearson, Francis B.

The stars, which to the number of several millions bespangle the sky, are not scattered uniformly.

From The Story of the Heavens by Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir

Her waters pastime sweet afford To ane an' a' wha like to angle; The seats o' mony a laird an' lord, Her plains, as stars the sky, bespangle.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

Eva Tanguay, 68, onetime bespangled, tousle-haired queen of vaudeville, whose raucous rendition of I Don't Care was top favorite with a whole generation of U.S. showgoers; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood.

From Time Magazine Archive

A little number expressing innocent joy in jewelry, charmingly vocalized by Songstress Simms and bespangled with instrumental baubles.

From Time Magazine Archive

It deposes the bespangled kings who since independence have had considerable powers to govern their own kingdoms in a federal system.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tell me therefore When you behold with your admiring eyes Heavens Canopie all to bespangled o’re With sprinkled starres, what can you well devize Which causen may such carelesse order in the skies?

From Democritus Platonissans by More, Henry

But Maximilian had bespangled him into a Dignidad, and thus lost to himself an able politician’s usefulness.

From The Missourian by Lyle, Eugene P. (Eugene Percy)

The scattered fragments strewed the ground like stars bespangling the firmament.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan

See how Aurora throws her fair Fresh-quilted colours through the air: Get up, sweet Slug-a-bed, and see The dew bespangling herb and tree.

From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various

Fortunately for our friends, it proved a clear night, with countless stars bespangling the heavens.—They had managed to find two lanterns fit for use and each was lit and placed in position.

From The Rover Boys in Southern Waters or The Deserted Steam Yacht by Stratemeyer, Edward

As he gazed at the bride all bespangled with gold, he felt that he had in his trunk the means of bespangling his bride with diamonds.

From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

Not Berenice's locks first rose so bright, The skies bespangling with dishevelled light.

From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Pope, Alexander