bespangle
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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 Francis B. Pearson
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 Willard W. Glazier
The stars, which to the number of several millions bespangle the sky, are not scattered uniformly.
From The Story of the Heavens by Sir Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball
The fixed stars which enamel and bespangle the concave expanse, or canopy of heaven, by numbers and lustre, make the night beauteous and delightful, which would otherwise be dark and horrible.
From A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses by
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 Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor
A little number expressing innocent joy in jewelry, charmingly vocalized by Songstress Simms and bespangled with instrumental baubles.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
In this attitude the ocelli over the whole body are exposed before the eyes of the admiring female in one grand bespangled ex91panse.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) by Charles Darwin
They were a girl’s ballet dress, very flimsy and very short and very much bespangled; a pair of light blue silk stockings and a pair of high-heeled dancing slippers.
From The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road or, Glorify Work by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey
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
Not Berenice's locks first rose so bright, The skies bespangling with dishevelled light.
From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope
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 A selection from the lyrical poems of Robert Herrick by Francis Turner Palgrave
For now the last dayes euening dew Euen to the full it selfe doth shew, 50Each bough with Pearle bespangling.
From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Cyril Brett
Not Berenice's locks first rose so bright, The heaven's bespangling with dishevell'd light.
From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by George Gilfillan
