daedal

Example Sentences

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A mere haircut will no longer salvage the graying mop atop, aside and below his daedal pate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Round his neck he slung that long daedal chain wherefrom St. George, slaying the Dragon, dangles.

From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

Or how, when thus restored, may daedal Earth Foster and plenish with her ancient food, Which, kind by kind, she offers unto each?

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery

Dark, dark were this world of ours had either Divinity left it—dark without the day-beams of the Latonian Charioteer, darker yet without the daedal Smile of the God of the Other Bow!

From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace

So, Bodily beauty, where Love is priestess, is a daedal spur to the loftiest worship.

From Hints for Lovers by Haultain, T. Arnold (Theodore Arnold)