besot
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And don't you forget You will ne'er be forgot, You never should fret As at times you have frot, I would chase all the cares that beset, if they ever besot.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
Ah cruel fates, why do you then besot Poor Corin's soul with love, when love is fled?
From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Martha Foote Crow
Oh, he had no right thus to besot himself with adoration!
From Chivalry by James Branch Cabell
It will steal in upon you, grow upon you, beset and besot you, till you like no other place in the world so well.”
From Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell
Nightmares Ride in their wake, the spirits to besot.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
Mr. Crowe, retaining a trace of his Hermann Göring from “Nuremberg,” is transparently deceitful to everyone but his besotted student, who agrees to be one of Murray’s guinea pigs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
But it is basketball - not football - that New Yorkers are besotted with right now.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
The film would attract a "whole new generation of people" who had not yet read the book but were "completely besotted" after seeing the film, he added.
From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026
I was immediately besotted by the band’s hookiness, the way their songs felt both precise and slightly feral.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2025
Caesar is beside himself, the Capitol audience is hysterical, shots of crowds around Panem show a country besotted with happiness.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
That delivers 0-60 mph acceleration pace in the 7s—adequate, though hardly besotting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2015
"Will you stand here besotting yourself, and allow your child to be flung into a pauper's grave?"
From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Alexander Johnstone Wilson
No; I have never repented fleeing from the stifling poison-breath of sin that was hot and thick around me, and threatened to steal over my senses like besotting wine.
From Romola by George Eliot
It is a besotting kind of taste, likely to turn into a disease.
From Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
How to get over, how to escape from, the besotting particularity of fiction.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
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