bespangle
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of bespangle
Example Sentences
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The fixed stars which enamel and bespangle the concave expanse, or canopy of heaven, by numbers and lustre, make the night beauteous and delightful, which would otherwise be dark and horrible.
From A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses by
Let them give up their unspeakably silly ambition to bespangle their lists of officers with these doctorial titles.
From Memories and Studies by Henry James
The stars, which to the number of several millions bespangle the sky, are not scattered uniformly.
From The Story of the Heavens by Sir Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball
Like fireflies that bespangle the darkness of the night, humor scintillates through all life’s phases and activities and causes the day to go more pleasantly and effectively on.
From The Vitalized School by Francis B. Pearson
Go out in the evening and see the dew gather drop by drop upon the grass, or trace the delicate hoar-frost crystals which bespangle every blade on a winter's morning.
From The Fairy-Land of Science by Arabella B. Buckley
Eva Tanguay, 68, onetime bespangled, tousle-haired queen of vaudeville, whose raucous rendition of I Don't Care was top favorite with a whole generation of U.S. showgoers; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood.
From Time Magazine Archive
It deposes the bespangled kings who since independence have had considerable powers to govern their own kingdoms in a federal system.
From Time Magazine Archive
A little number expressing innocent joy in jewelry, charmingly vocalized by Songstress Simms and bespangled with instrumental baubles.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this attitude the ocelli over the whole body are exposed before the eyes of the admiring female in one grand bespangled ex91panse.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) by Charles Darwin
Over the throne was a gorgeous canopy of purple, and diamonds bespangled the tapestry as a firmament.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various
See how Aurora throws her fair Fresh-quilted colours through the air: Get up, sweet Slug-a-bed, and see The dew bespangling herb and tree.
From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various
Not Berenice's locks first rose so bright, The skies bespangling with dishevelled light.
From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope
As he gazed at the bride all bespangled with gold, he felt that he had in his trunk the means of bespangling his bride with diamonds.
From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
Mr. Cantwell, the cords sticking out on his forehead, and a clammy dew bespangling his white face, counted on in consuming anger.
From The High School Pitcher Dick & Co. on the Gridley Diamond by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
Not Berenice's locks first rose so bright, The heaven's bespangling with dishevell'd light.
From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by George Gilfillan
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