angling

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Spangling the night sky, the unattainable stars have always invoked reverence and wonder.

From Time Magazine Archive

And the light that was left from making the sun God gathered it up in a shining ball And flung it against the darkness, Spangling the night with the moon and stars.

From The Book of American Negro Poetry by Johnson, James Weldon

Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John

Amongst innumerable stars, that shone Stars distant, but nigh hand seemed other worlds.—iii. 564-65. her reign With thousand lesser lights dividual holds, With thousand thousand stars, that then appeared Spangling the hemisphere.—vii. 381-84.

From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Orchard, Thomas Nathaniel