bespangle
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It exists in, and influences every atom, whose combinations compose and constitute the entire material creation, or each and every orb that bespangle the blue infinity.
From Aether and Gravitation by William George Hooper
Let them give up their unspeakably silly ambition to bespangle their lists of officers with these doctorial titles.
From Memories and Studies by Henry James
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
Go out in the evening and see the dew gather drop by drop upon the grass, or trace the delicate hoar-frost crystals which bespangle every blade on a winter's morning.
From The Fairy-Land of Science by Arabella B. Buckley
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
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
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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
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A little number expressing innocent joy in jewelry, charmingly vocalized by Songstress Simms and bespangled with instrumental baubles.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Mrs. Darling, dragging a long, pink train and waving slowly a bespangled pink fan, moved toward him at once.
From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by Basil King
Overhead the dark vault is bespangled with its myriads of golden eyes, which are reflected in the still waters of the pool, and the Southern Cross flames from a starry zone.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
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
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 R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
See how Aurora throws her fair Fresh-quilted colors through the air: Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see The dew bespangling herb and tree.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
Berenice’s locks first rose so bright,The heavens bespangling with dishevelled light.The sylphs behold it kindling as it flies,And pleased pursue its progress through the skies.
From Playful Poems by Henry Morley
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 Kisari Mohan Ganguli