daedal

Example Sentences

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A mere haircut will no longer salvage the graying mop atop, aside and below his daedal pate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dark, dark were this world of ours had either Divinity left it—dark without the day-beams of the Latonian Charioteer, darker yet without the daedal Smile of the God of the Other Bow!

From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace

All the phenomena of reflected lights, half lights, and broken lights are brought in and attuned to the great daedal melody of the edifice.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator by Various

Round his neck he slung that long daedal chain wherefrom St. George, slaying the Dragon, dangles.

From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

So, Bodily beauty, where Love is priestess, is a daedal spur to the loftiest worship.

From Hints for Lovers by Haultain, T. Arnold (Theodore Arnold)