bedabble
Americanverb (used with object)
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I saunter up the walks; My sandals wetted through With dripping flowers and stalks, That line the avenue; My broidered mantle all bedabbled with the dew!
From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various
He was taken within four-and-twenty hours, and brought back, bedabbled with mud and rain, haggard and worn--to all appearance more dead than alive.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
The dress itself was of a pale shade of green; the mire and mud with which it was bedabbled no longer showed in the half light; and the satin folds glistened dimly as she moved.
From Sir George Tressady — Volume I by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Their very faces were bedabbled with black, and they left a black trail behind them on the grass.
From Three Margarets by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry
It was a rainy October afternoon, and through the door she could see the black main street —houses and road alike bedabbled in wet and mire.
From Sir George Tressady — Volume II by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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