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

At a borrowed piano belonging to some vanished resident a trooper officiated; he was clothed in a grey back shirt and ammunition boots-- and displayed the daedal methods of a Fragson.

From With Botha in the Field by Ritchie, Eric Moore

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

I sang of the dancing stars, I sang of the daedal earth, And of heaven, and the giant wars, And love, and death, and birth.

From English Songs and Ballads by Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)