gloze
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From Time Magazine Archive
"You know as well as I that it does not gloze a poor book, nor pass over defects in silence."
From The Story of an Untold Love by Paul Leicester Ford
We neither of us tried to gloze over the truth.
From At the Point of the Sword by Herbert Hayens
He did not stoop to gloze his own monumental flippancy.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives
Hark how the villain would gloze now, after his treasonable abuses!
From Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned: Into the heart of Eve his words made way, Though at the voice much marvelling; at length, Not unamazed, she thus in answer spake.
From Paradise Lost by John Milton
They glozed his faults and made virtues out of his close-grained traits; they praised and lamented, with sighs and mournful words, but Isom’s widow could not weep.
From The Bondboy by George W. (George Washington) Ogden
So the matter might be adjudged elsewhere, but in this world glozed and softened.
From Sir Mortimer by Mary Johnston
Miss Binswanger raised her eyes, great dark pools glozed over with tears.
From Every Soul Hath Its Song by Fannie Hurst
He glozed the matter, too, in his own mind.
From International Short Stories English by Various
Everywhere in art and literature that we meet the devil or his minions, they are tempting and glozing and generally making themselves tricky.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Ho, ye who heard me speak so long and oft The glozing word that led me to my will?
From The House of Atreus by E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson) Morshead
By way of glozing over these incongruities Lenin's ukase proclaimed that the measures enacted were only provisional, and aimed at enabling Russia to realize the great transformation by degrees.
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon
The planets seven his council made, He hugged the glozing cheat; But ere the pedant's legs were old, No stockings held his feet!
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
Why need she be again tempted by pride, or curiosity, or glozing words, to forfeit her own Eden?
From Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent by J. (Jesse) Clement
