gloze

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From Time Magazine Archive

You see, gloze it over as they may, one thing is clear, it is finished with England.

From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

He looked at the other's two companions, perfect types of the "heeler," burly and with brutally-cunning features, that wore now a gloze of satisfaction in the work that was forward.

From The Long Lane's Turning by Rives, Hallie Erminie

It seems to comfort their evil consciences, to use good words; and to gloze over bad deeds with holy texts, wrested to their purpose.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

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