bedizenment
Example Sentences
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She is puzzled; her notion of a thank-offering was rather that of the Indians, and indeed of the Spaniards,—sacrifices of human victims, and the bedizenment of the Great Spirit's sanctuary with their skulls and bones.
From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley
From the Hôtel du Chancelier the winter view over the bright, beautiful city, glittering only yesterday in its winter bedizenment of frost and snow, was changed.
From A Modern Mercenary by K. (Kate) Prichard
The night foreman of the station, a person of bedizenment and pride, stared at them as they alighted at Chelmsford and glanced around like strangers.
From Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man by Sinclair Lewis
The bed was a big four-poster, which no bedizenment could bring within the fashion of the day.
From The Raid of The Guerilla and Other Stories by Charles Egbert Craffock
Last but not least Leonora had accomplished the bedizenment of the "ladies."
From The Storm Centre by Mary Noailles Murfree
