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
While hot tears bedim the vision Of dear friends who mourn his death, May they manifest decision By the wondrous power of Faith, In belief that those who sleep Safe in Jesus shall not weep.
From The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Thomas Cowherd
Three moons have waned, and the Palmer, again, By Gertrude stands, and smileth fain; Nor of haste, nor of death, speaks the Palmer, now; Nor doth sadness or sorrow bedim his brow.
From The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme by Thomas Cooper
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
Thine eyes are bedimmed with the visions of Night, And silent and cold—I perceive on thy brow In their turns—Despair and Madness alight.
From The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
Nor did those solemn eyes, bedimmed into a pathetic beauty, in any degree restrain the glee that sparkled in orbs that had as yet shed not many tears, but tears of joy or pity.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson
The warm darkness had no relief for him, and Miriam's histrionic hardness flung him back against a fifth-rate world, against a bedimmed, star-punctured nature which had no consolation—the bleared, irresponsive eyes of the London firmament.
From The Tragic Muse by Henry James
It seemed as if never so thin a gauze had been drawn over the face of the sun, just faintly bedimming, without obscuring it.
From The Cardinal's Snuff-Box by Henry Harland
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
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
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
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
