bespangle
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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
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
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
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
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
A little number expressing innocent joy in jewelry, charmingly vocalized by Songstress Simms and bespangled with instrumental baubles.
From Time Magazine Archive
His doublet was of the finest satin, and of a violet colour; his spurs were of gold, his hose crimson, and precious stones bespangled his shirt-collar.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various
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
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
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
Not Berenice's Locks first rose so bright, The heav'ns bespangling with dishevell'd light.
From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope
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
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
