begem
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of begem
Example Sentences
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Those lonely realms bright garden isles begem.
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Begem, be-jem′, v.t. to adorn, as with gems.
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Gardens and domes—bazars, begem the woods— Seraglio, harems, peopled solitudes, Where the veil'd idol kneels; and vistas through Barr'd lattices, that give th' enamoured view; Flowers, orange-trees—and waters sparkling near.
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Its children will be as the grains of sand that bar the ocean's waves, or the stars that begem the vault of night.
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"Indeed it did not," he thought bitterly, and not for the first time he missed something in her—some spirit of simplicity, freshness, flower-bloom, and purity that he had sought for, seen in many women, and found elusive, as the frost finds the bloom of flowers he would begem.
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