bespangle

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.

Those orbs, seemingly countless—which bespangle the dark robe of night—have a charm and beauty of their own apart from the significance with which the science of astronomy has invested them.

From Myths and Marvels of Astronomy by Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony)

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

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

The fixed stars which enamel and bespangle the concave expanse, or canopy of heaven, by numbers and lustre, make the night beauteous and delightful, which would otherwise be dark and horrible. 

From A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses by

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

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

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

Tell me therefore When you behold with your admiring eyes Heavens Canopie all to bespangled o’re With sprinkled starres, what can you well devize Which causen may such carelesse order in the skies?

From Democritus Platonissans by More, Henry

In this attitude the ocelli over the whole body are exposed before the eyes of the admiring female in one grand bespangled ex91panse.

From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) by Darwin, Charles

For now the last dayes euening dew Euen to the full it selfe doth shew, 50Each bough with Pearle bespangling.

From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Brett, Cyril

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

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)

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 Ganguli, Kisari Mohan

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