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bespangle

[bih-spang-guhl] / bɪˈspæŋ gəl /
VERB
embellish
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG
hurt leave plain


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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

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

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

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

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

A little number expressing innocent joy in jewelry, charmingly vocalized by Songstress Simms and bespangled with instrumental baubles.

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

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

But we must pass on for, while I have been talking, the whole sky has become bespangled with hundreds of stars.

From Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures A Sequel to The Fairyland of Science by Arabella B. Buckley

The same azure vault, bespangled with stars, will be every where spread over our heads.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Ernest Rhys

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

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

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

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

Fortunately for our friends, it proved a clear night, with countless stars bespangling the heavens.—They had managed to find two lanterns fit for use and each was lit and placed in position.

From The Rover Boys in Southern Waters or The Deserted Steam Yacht by Edward Stratemeyer



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