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
English sentiment began to bedim Gallic eyes, and so what we know as the Louis XVI style was born.
From The House in Good Taste by Wolfe, Elsie de
From all his wild companions flown; Tears, strange till then, his eyes bedim; He wanders all alone.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various
Nor shall he weep aright when tears bedim His desperate, doleful eyes that know not faith; And he shall hear no chants of cherubim.
From A Lover's Litanies by Mackay, Eric
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
Here is another illustration: Those lovely eyes bedimmed, Those lovely eyes be dammed.
From Cupology How to Be Entertaining by Clara
She was laid down upon its board in her poor bedimmed tunic, which once flashed so bright in the sun,—she who had been ever so delicate in her apparel.
From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by Newman, John Henry
‘Can mortal sight, so oft bedimmed with tears, ‘Such glory bear?—for lo, the shadows fly ‘From Nature’s face; Confusion disappears, ‘And order charms the eyes, and harmony the ears.
From The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems by Beattie, James
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
The daylight from the street then entered in a lurid stream, bedimming the glare of lamps and candles.
From A Love Episode by Zola, Émile
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
What business have we to prophesy bedimming tears to those resplendent eyes? or that the talisman of that witching smile can ever lose its magic?
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John
Percival was suddenly conscious of a mist bedimming his eyes.
From West Wind Drift by McCutcheon, George Barr
