gloze
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From Time Magazine Archive
At dark the old man lit two lamps, which served dimly to gloze the shadows, and thrust logs of wood into the cast-iron stove.
From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward
Heaven, that I had thy head! he has found the meaning: But I will gloze with him.
From Pericles by Shakespeare, William
He did not stoop to gloze his own monumental flippancy.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie
I wish to gloze over nothing; I did not make my own nature, and in these pages I describe it as it was and is without palliation or excuse.
From Doctor Therne by Haggard, Henry Rider
Miss Binswanger raised her eyes, great dark pools glozed over with tears.
From Every Soul Hath Its Song by Hurst, Fannie
For Shelley laws are “obscure records of dark and barbarous echos,” “tomes of reasoned wrong glozed on by ignorance.”
From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by MacDonald, Daniel J.
"So glozed the Tempter, and his poison tuned; Into the heart of Eve his words made way, Though at the voice much marvelling."
From The Two Admirals by Cooper, James Fenimore
At the moment nothing glozed the essential tragic futility of their existence.
From A Son of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin
And then she glozed the thing over with one of those patent glosses which the devil provides when the occasion needs them.
From A Woman Perfected by Marsh, Richard
Everywhere in art and literature that we meet the devil or his minions, they are tempting and glozing and generally making themselves tricky.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
By way of glozing over these incongruities Lenin's ukase proclaimed that the measures enacted were only provisional, and aimed at enabling Russia to realize the great transformation by degrees.
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph
Nina was determined that there should be no glozing of matters, no soft words used effectually to stop her in her projected course.
From Nina Balatka by Trollope, Anthony
"Now it seems that thou art a coward, Hall," Swanhild said when he had done, "and I scarcely looked for that in thee," for she had not been deceived by the glozing of his speech.
From Eric Brighteyes by Haggard, Henry Rider
But unless ye bring The burier, without glozing ye shall tell, Craven advantage clearly worketh bane.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
