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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

I believe; but gloomy fears Sometimes bedim my sight; I look to Thee with prayers and tears, And cry for strength and light.

From Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion by Various

Here is his sure title to nobility—a title that neither time nor eternity can ever tarnish or bedim.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee

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

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

But tears bedimmed her blue eyes, and a word of sympathy would have caused her to burst into a fit of weeping that would probably have been hysterical in its nature.

From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Gordon Stables

Indeed, my eyes were so bedimmed that I scarcely saw anything at all until we came around under the stern of a ship, when I heard the order ‘lay in your oars.’

From Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner by I. I. (Isaac Israel) Hayes

His later feeling for the religious in art is expressed in the now bedimmed paintings in San Salvatore in Venice.

From The Venetian School of Painting by Evelyn March Phillipps

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

Percival was suddenly conscious of a mist bedimming his eyes.

From West Wind Drift by George Barr McCutcheon

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

As cloth after cloth is removed, the light seems to grow brighter and stronger, and yet it has changed not, the change being in the removal of the confining and bedimming coverings.

From A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga by William Walker Atkinson

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