bespangle
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O sweet are the scenes of my boyhood's sunny years That bespangle the gay valley o'er; And dear are the friends, seen through memory's fond tears, That have lived in the blest days of yore.
From Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel by Willard W. Glazier
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
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 Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor
The stars, which to the number of several millions bespangle the sky, are not scattered uniformly.
From The Story of the Heavens by Sir Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball
Like fireflies that bespangle the darkness of the night, humor scintillates through all life’s phases and activities and causes the day to go more pleasantly and effectively on.
From The Vitalized School by Francis B. Pearson
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
A little number expressing innocent joy in jewelry, charmingly vocalized by Songstress Simms and bespangled with instrumental baubles.
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
Mrs. Darling, dragging a long, pink train and waving slowly a bespangled pink fan, moved toward him at once.
From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by Basil King
In the month of April the woods are bespangled with the violet.
From Memoranda on Tours and Touraine Including remarks on the climate with a sketch of the Botany And Geology of the Province also on the Wines and Mineral Waters of France by J. H. Holdsworth
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 George Gilfillan
Not Berenice's locks first rose so bright, The skies bespangling with dishevelled light.
From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope
Not Berenice's Locks first rose so bright, The heav'ns bespangling with dishevell'd light.
From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope
See how Aurora throws her fair Fresh-quilted colours through the air: Get up, sweet-slug-a-bed, and see The dew bespangling herb and tree.
From A selection from the lyrical poems of Robert Herrick by Francis Turner Palgrave
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 R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
