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
From all his wild companions flown; Tears, strange till then, his eyes bedim; He wanders all alone.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various
And there are toys for the girls and boys; And eyes that years bedim Grow strangely bright, with a youthful light, As they pluck from the pendant limb.
From Christmas Entertainments by Alice Maude Kellogg
But tears, rough, manly tears, for the dead, Like dews of night bedim the glass, With throbbing hearts and lifted hands, We name him—“Dowling! of the Pass.”
From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various
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
At a signal from the Prince the musicians struck up again the dance, and bright eyes bedimmed with tears began to smile once more.
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis
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
But tears bedimmed her blue eyes, and a word of sympathy would have caused her to burst into a fit of weeping that would probably have been hysterical in its nature.
From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Gordon Stables
What business have we to prophesy bedimming tears to those resplendent eyes? or that the talisman of that witching smile can ever lose its magic?
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson
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
Queen Anaïtis was very beautiful, even under his bedimming shadow.
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell
Percival was suddenly conscious of a mist bedimming his eyes.
From West Wind Drift by George Barr McCutcheon
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
