gloze

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From Time Magazine Archive

The burly, strong old man stood perfectly still and silent as he, with hesitating and ill-arranged words, tried to gloze over and make endurable his past conduct and intentions as to the future.

From An Eye for an Eye by Trollope, Anthony

He had never lied to her or sought to gloze over his weakness.

From Out of the Primitive by Bennet, Robert Ames

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

Beshrew those sad interpreters of nature, Who gloze her lively universal law, As if she had not form'd our cheerful feature To be so tickled with the slightest straw!

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas