bedim
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The darkening cinematic mood that has engulfed even 007 won't be allowed to bedim the Dolby Theatre.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2013
Ash and dust bedim the sky, blocking the sun's light.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
No less'ning ray Will e'er bedim thy natal morn, Or usher in the unhallowed day When we forget that thou wert born!
From The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems by George W. Doneghy
Nor shall he weep aright when tears bedim His desperate, doleful eyes that know not faith; And he shall hear no chants of cherubim.
From A Lover's Litanies by Eric Mackay
From all his wild compassions flown; Tears, strange till then, his eyes bedim; He wanders all alone.
From The Poems of Schiller — Third period by Friedrich Schiller
She even transmitted a soupçon of the old glow to the bedimmed office of the presidency in the television series “24.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2010
What is so sad as a Kim bedimmed?
From Time Magazine Archive
Down through the perfumed silences he hears Their eyelids fluttering: long fingers thrill, Probing a lassitude bedimmed with tears, While the nails crunch at every louse they kill.
From The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems by Aldous Huxley
‘Can mortal sight, so oft bedimmed with tears, ‘Such glory bear?—for lo, the shadows fly ‘From Nature’s face; Confusion disappears, ‘And order charms the eyes, and harmony the ears.
From The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems by James Beattie
Aunt Catherine's bedimmed eyesight and impaired hearing had prevented her from discovering before this that her nurse was none other than Morlene.
From Unfettered A Novel by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs
The daylight from the street then entered in a lurid stream, bedimming the glare of lamps and candles.
From A Love Episode by Émile Zola
What business have we to prophesy bedimming tears to those resplendent eyes? or that the talisman of that witching smile can ever lose its magic?
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson
Mrs. Fairfax placed her hands upon their heads, tears bedimming her own eyes, and blessed them, and then kissed her daughter as she was about to leave the room.
From The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion by William A. (Alexander) Caruthers
Percival was suddenly conscious of a mist bedimming his eyes.
From West Wind Drift by George Barr McCutcheon
Keen rushed the light In quivering splendor from the writhen flash; Strong though they were, intolerable smote Their orbs of sight, and with bedimming glare Scorched up their blasted vision.
From Mosaics of Grecian History by Marcius Willson
