begrime
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of begrime
Example Sentences
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He saw a face which even the dust of the streets could not so begrime as to hide its sweetness or its tenderness, as, with deep solicitude, she bent over her cousin.
From The Earth Trembled by Edward Payson Roe
The lorde one day all to begrime you with worshyp, Backe sir sauce, let gentlefolkes haue elbowe roome, Voyde sirs, see ye not maister Roister Doister come?
From Roister Doister Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College by Edward Arber
The news of so unlucky an event soon reached the ears of the emir, who abandoned himself to grief and despair, and began, as did his old grey-beards, to begrime his visage with ashes.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford
The news of so unlucky an event soon reached the ears of the Emir, who abandoned himself to grief and despair, and began, as did all his old grey-beards, to begrime his visage with ashes.
From The History of Caliph Vathek by William Beckford
There are my compeers, gay at court, While here the tears my face begrime.
From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Epiphanius Wilson
He’s spent most of the past couple of days sitting on the begrimed concrete outside a bustling 7-Eleven.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2023
He is about to shoot when the young, begrimed soldier holds up his hand in what is now the peace symbol, but at the time meant: "Do you have a cigarette?"
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2019
It’s there that the film’s “refuge” scenes were staged, replicating the cave in which the begrimed, emaciated workers lived until an international team of engineers was able to drill a rescue shaft 2,300 feet down.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2015
Later, he says that if she’s cheated on him, “Her name, that was as fresh/ As Dian's visage, is now begrimed and black/ As mine own face.”
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2015
Nearly blinded by the flying embers he had dashed water on his head and face, and his matted hair and begrimed skin added to his frightened looks made him seem like another person.”
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
The factory smokestacks begriming the sky in the opening scene are in Stratford, a section of London's East End where jobs and hope are in short supply.
From Time Magazine Archive
The clouds were beginning to sweep up from the other side and begriming the sky which had been so ruthlessly clear all the morning.
From Boycotted And Other Stories by Talbot Baines Reed
What could be seen of the skin of his face and hands under its stains and begriming was of a dull yellow.
From The Bell-Ringer of Angel's by Bret Harte
I thought that Welcker, Plunkett, Brooks, and all The ghastly crew who always are begriming With villain couplets every page and wall, Might be arrested and "run in" for rhyming.
From Black Beetles in Amber by Ambrose Bierce
With the sheet that night is begriming she muzzles herself, and hides her face.
From Light by Fitzwater Wray
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