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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

And there are toys for the girls and boys; And eyes that years bedim Grow strangely bright, with a youthful light, As they pluck from the pendant limb.

From Christmas Entertainments by Alice Maude Kellogg

Now I recenter my immortal mind In the long sabbath of high self-content; Cleans'd from the fleshly Passions that bedim God's Image, Sister of the Seraphim.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

I believe; but gloomy fears Sometimes bedim my sight; I look to Thee with prayers and tears, And cry for strength and light.

From Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion by Various

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

Then tears bedimmed those gentle eyes, As transport took them and surprise, And as they listened every one Cried in delight, Well done!

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith

Nor did those solemn eyes, bedimmed into a pathetic beauty, in any degree restrain the glee that sparkled in orbs that had as yet shed not many tears, but tears of joy or pity.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson

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 William Black

The daylight from the street then entered in a lurid stream, bedimming the glare of lamps and candles.

From A Love Episode by Émile Zola

Queen Anaïtis was very beautiful, even under his bedimming shadow.

From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell

But he thought also of the beauty of Maria, of the sweetness of her smile, and of the tears of voiceless gratitude which he had seen bedimming the lustre of her bright eyes.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII by John Mackay Wilson

Keen rushed the light In quivering splendor from the writhen flash; Strong though they were, intolerable smote Their orbs of sight, and with bedimming glare Scorched up their blasted vision.

From Mosaics of Grecian History by Marcius Willson

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 George Eliot