gloze

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From Time Magazine Archive

I wish to gloze over nothing; I did not make my own nature, and in these pages I describe it as it was and is without palliation or excuse.

From Doctor Therne by Haggard, Henry Rider

He knew his father never cared for him, though his mother tried her best to gloze over the indifference of her husband.

From Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course by Ferguson, W. B. M. (William Blair Morton)

It's the pair o' them," Tommy said to Elspeth at the first opportunity, "that sometimes comes here at nights and kindles the fire and warms themsels at the gloze.

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

I will not shun to uphold The righteous cause, nor will I gloze the wrong With flattering titles, lest the kindling wrath Of an offended Maker, sweep me hence.

From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Sigourney, Lydia Howard