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
What though a few clouds bedim and deform "the innocent brightness of the new-born day?"
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
English sentiment began to bedim Gallic eyes, and so what we know as the Louis XVI style was born.
From The House in Good Taste by Elsie de Wolfe
From all his wild companions flown; Tears, strange till then, his eyes bedim; He wanders all alone.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various
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
Strength for to-day—that the weary hearts In the battle for right may quail not, And the eyes bedimmed with bitter tears In their search for light may fail not.
From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by James Mudge
With delight sparkling in her eyes, she sat gazing on his face, until the tear of affection rose and bedimmed their radiance.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 by Various
Louise was a beautiful and interesting girl, and the bloom of nineteen summers blushed on her cheeks; but they were now pale, and her dark eyes were bedimmed with tears.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various
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
It is precisely those superstitions which hang about your mind like bedimming clouds, my Romola, that make one great reason why I could wish we were two hundred leagues from Florence.
From Romola by George Eliot
But he thought also of the beauty of Maria, of the sweetness of her smile, and of the tears of voiceless gratitude which he had seen bedimming the lustre of her bright eyes.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII by John Mackay Wilson
There is not about Old Age one blessing more deserving gratitude to Heaven, than the gradual bedimming of memory brought on by years.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
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
