daedal

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A mere haircut will no longer salvage the graying mop atop, aside and below his daedal pate.

From Time Magazine Archive

At a borrowed piano belonging to some vanished resident a trooper officiated; he was clothed in a grey back shirt and ammunition boots-- and displayed the daedal methods of a Fragson.

From With Botha in the Field by Ritchie, Eric Moore

All the phenomena of reflected lights, half lights, and broken lights are brought in and attuned to the great daedal melody of the edifice.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator by Various

I sang of the dancing stars, I sang of the daedal earth, And of heaven, and the giant wars, And love, and death, and birth.

From English Songs and Ballads by Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)

Round his neck he slung that long daedal chain wherefrom St. George, slaying the Dragon, dangles.

From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir