bespangle
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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 Hooper, William George
Like fireflies that bespangle the darkness of the night, humor scintillates through all life’s phases and activities and causes the day to go more pleasantly and effectively on.
From The Vitalized School by Pearson, Francis B.
The stars, which to the number of several millions bespangle the sky, are not scattered uniformly.
From The Story of the Heavens by Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir
Let them give up their unspeakably silly ambition to bespangle their lists of officers with these doctorial titles.
From Memories and Studies by James, Henry
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 Buckley, Arabella B.
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
A little number expressing innocent joy in jewelry, charmingly vocalized by Songstress Simms and bespangled with instrumental baubles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scrambling up the slimy bank, through a maze of thorn trees, brambles, and sycamore scrubs, we gained the fertile bottom above, all luscious with tall grasses bespangled with wild red roses and the showy pentstemon.
From Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Thwaites, Reuben Gold
Overhead the precipitous cliffs caught the sun's rays on countless glittering points, the mica with which they are so plentifully bespangled dazzling the eye with its brilliancy.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams
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 Gilfillan, George
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 Morley, Henry
See how Aurora throws her fair Fresh-quilted colours through the air: Get up, sweet-slug-a-bed, and see The dew bespangling herb and tree.
From A selection from the lyrical poems of Robert Herrick by Palgrave, Francis Turner
See how Aurora throws her fair Fresh-quilted colours through the air: Get up, sweet Slug-a-bed, and see The dew bespangling herb and tree.
From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various
As he gazed at the bride all bespangled with gold, he felt that he had in his trunk the means of bespangling his bride with diamonds.
From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
