bedim
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The darkening cinematic mood that has engulfed even 007 won't be allowed to bedim the Dolby Theatre.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2013
Ash and dust bedim the sky, blocking the sun's light.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
A rush of blood suffices at times to bedim a conscience.
From Fruitfulness by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
I fain would know if, when I heave a sigh, Tears e'er bedim thy sympathetic eye?
From The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Cowherd, Thomas
Here is his sure title to nobility—a title that neither time nor eternity can ever tarnish or bedim.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
She even transmitted a soupçon of the old glow to the bedimmed office of the presidency in the television series “24.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2010
What is so sad as a Kim bedimmed?
From Time Magazine Archive
On that fateful morning, poor Madge, her pretty eyes all bedimmed with tears, and her lips tremulous, was with her sisters and mother in the rooms in Bruton Street; the gentlemen only attended the Court.
From The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols by Black, William
"Yea, Lord, Thou knowest that I love Thee," cried the disciple, his soul aflame with a living passion never more to be extinguished or bedimmed, "Thou knowest that I love Thee."
From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by Jackson, J. Dodd (James Dodd)
His later feeling for the religious in art is expressed in the now bedimmed paintings in San Salvatore in Venice.
From The Venetian School of Painting by Phillipps, Evelyn March
As cloth after cloth is removed, the light seems to grow brighter and stronger, and yet it has changed not, the change being in the removal of the confining and bedimming coverings.
From A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga by Atkinson, William Walker
It is precisely those superstitions which hang about your mind like bedimming clouds, my Romola, that make one great reason why I could wish we were two hundred leagues from Florence.
From Romola by Eliot, George
It seemed as if never so thin a gauze had been drawn over the face of the sun, just faintly bedimming, without obscuring it.
From The Cardinal's Snuff-Box by Harland, Henry
Percival was suddenly conscious of a mist bedimming his eyes.
From West Wind Drift by McCutcheon, George Barr
There is not about Old Age one blessing more deserving gratitude to Heaven, than the gradual bedimming of memory brought on by years.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
