bespangle

Let them give up their unspeakably silly ambition to bespangle their lists of officers with these doctorial titles.

From Memories and Studies by Henry James

It exists in, and influences every atom, whose combinations compose and constitute the entire material creation, or each and every orb that bespangle the blue infinity.

From Aether and Gravitation by William George Hooper

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

Go out in the evening and see the dew gather drop by drop upon the grass, or trace the delicate hoar-frost crystals which bespangle every blade on a winter's morning.

From The Fairy-Land of Science by Arabella B. Buckley

Her waters pastime sweet afford To ane an' a' wha like to angle; The seats o' mony a laird an' lord, Her plains, as stars the sky, bespangle.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers

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

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 was a thing of brilliantly contrasting colors––the 31 picture which she planned to copy––a sleeveless waist of dullest crimson and a much bespangled skirt of clinging, shimmering black.

From Once to Every Man by Anton Otto Fischer

Nearly all are clothed in evergreen trees, bespangled with flowers and ferns, and girdled with gravelly beaches suggesting the real charms of camp life.

From The Beauties of the State of Washington A Book for Tourists by Harry F. Giles

Fortunately for our friends, it proved a clear night, with countless stars bespangling the heavens.—They had managed to find two lanterns fit for use and each was lit and placed in position.

From The Rover Boys in Southern Waters or The Deserted Steam Yacht by Edward Stratemeyer

Berenice’s locks first rose so bright,The heavens bespangling with dishevelled light.The sylphs behold it kindling as it flies,And pleased pursue its progress through the skies.

From Playful Poems by Henry Morley

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

The scattered fragments strewed the ground like stars bespangling the firmament.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

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