How To Use Bedeck In A Sentence
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With her long black skirt and fruit and flower bedecked hat she looked every inch the children's nanny and as a nursery teacher in real life it's a role she is not entirely unfamiliar with.
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Married at an early age, the Florentine woman from the propertied classes did not own either her dowry or the rich clothes and jewels which bedecked her during the wedding ceremony.
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One extraordinary reminder of the past greets every in-coming visitor to Cork airport: an old gas fire, with fake coal effect, bedecked with horse brasses and completed with a set of comfy seats.
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The entrance to the store was bedecked in hundreds of green and yellow balloons, and the store itself is just fabulous.
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There are six of them in total, one hundred and fifty foot tall totemic spires of Growth Bone, Calcine, and Blossom Glass, bedecked on all sides with terraces, platforms and loggias, sun-bleached and standing to attention like nine pins spilt upon the desert or deep sea hydro-thermal vents rising from unfathomed depths.
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While many Britons where bedecking their streets in flags and bunting others stayed at home, reflecting the fact that the royal family is not uniformly popular across their realm.
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The minstrels, bedecked in red doublets and white hose, played upbeat tunes to which gardens of brightly clad nobles danced merrily.
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Next door to a rose-colored, angel-bedecked church, the boxy school glowers behind barred gates like those that surround prisons.
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This is a strange, liminal object: a maypole bedecked with slim red and black ribbons and chains from which hang aluminium plaques bearing grisly two-dimensional images of severed heads.
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The worn but spit-shined sanctuary is silent this weekday morning and the life-size statues of La Virgen de Guadalupe and St. Jude, aglow in shadowy candlelight, gaze benevolently out of their gaudy, flower-bedecked encasements.
American Grace
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Next door to a rose-colored, angel-bedecked church, the boxy school glowers behind barred gates like those that surround prisons.
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Usually bedecked in a powder-blue suit, she totters down the steps of one ancient pile with the purpose of opening another crumbling edifice a short limousine drive away.
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Women wore wrap-arounds imprinted with Kabila's image, and practically every car was bedecked with leaves as a sign of mourning.
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Individual scenes are well staged: when wrecked on the shores of Pentapolis, Pericles arrives in a launderette swimming in water and bedecked with old clothes.
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They, too, were bedecked in shades and hues that I had never seen in silks, satins, and lace before!
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Ribbons and lace bedecked the front of the satin bodice, with nothing but a little lace around the legs and a big bow in the back for a skirt.
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His badge of office was a straw hat bedecked with poppies and bindweed.
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Bedecked in chains and leather studded collars, their ears hacked down to nubs, these dogs served as accoutrements in the young locals' tireless cultivation of their personal menace.
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The square is bedecked in rich burgundy tapestries and lords and ladies watch from their thrones in the terraces above.
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Dressed in their finest and bedecked with gold jewellery, their appearance seemed at odds in that uninhabited place.
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Slights of this sort propelled the planters to build bigger and gaudier country homes than the English landed aristocracy could normally afford, bedecked with canvases by Velázquez, and Rubens and the occasional Ming vase.
Sugar in the Raw
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From the colourful tiny candles bedecking birthday cakes to the ordinary white ones with long wicks, candles have not only served to dispel darkness, but also served as means to express love and affection.
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Spring began very early: even at the end of February the fields were green, parks hastened to bedeck themselves in their leafy wings, the blossoms hastened to bloom and fall; the opening days of May saw fruit on the apple-trees; and prematurely ripe cherries were "hawked" in the streets, beside bouquets of late blooming violets.
Debts of Honor
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On the cover, Charlize sprawls on a white chaise lounge in front of a green screen "pool," bedecked in a black and white dress as she stares down the camera.
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The women were bedecked in every shade of purple and every shape of hat.
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Fox holds a potlatch to signalize his marriage to Lit-Lit and she, "tearfully shy and frightened, is bedecked by her husband with a new calico dress, splendidly beaded mocassins, a gorgeous silk handkerchief over her raven hair, a purple scarf about her throat, brass earrings and finger-rings, and a whole pint of pinchbeck jewelry, including a Waterbury watch.
“I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .”
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It was very Catholic, with a plethora of candles and an impressive altar of Italian marble bedecked by eighteen statues.
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Those are already bedecked with ample quantities of red ink.
Times, Sunday Times
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Against a rustic stucco wall, water trickles out of scalloped bowls into a colorful blue fountain bedecked with blazing bougainvillea.
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The square was bedecked with flags and flowers.
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A bedecked Christmas tree and stalls selling eatables added to the ambience.
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I have a picture of a shrine in my head, all bedecked with knobbly candles and baroque festoonery, and anything less would be disappointing.
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Everywhere there were parades and flag-bedecked, horn-honking rickshaw convoys, with young men, many of them unemployed, shouting and setting off masses of firecrackers.
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The worn but spit-shined sanctuary is silent this weekday morning and the life-size statues of La Virgen de Guadalupe and St. Jude, aglow in shadowy candlelight, gaze benevolently out of their gaudy, flower-bedecked encasements.
American Grace
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Aside from the aforementioned toys, nothing is to be found bedecking the tree more interesting than inexpensive twinkle lights, cloth ornaments, and garland.
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If there is anyone out there who is interested in helping with the preparation of the day, which includes bedecking the town in festive bunting, etc., to come along to their weekly meetings on Thursdays.
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Barmy British eccentricity rules the waves once again this Saturday as 16 straining, muscled hearties heave, two tiny coxswains fret and shout and, tradition assures us, Cockney urchins bedecked in blue scuffle alongside on the towpath scragging each other and hollering "C'mon Horx-ferd!" or "C'mon Cym-breege!
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They quickly readied mounts, some for the number of servants she was taking and one for her, which they bedecked in gold, velvet, and silk drapes.
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Fox holds a potlatch to signalize his marriage to Lit-Lit and she, "tearfully shy and frightened, is bedecked by her husband with a new calico dress, splendidly beaded mocassins, a gorgeous silk handkerchief over her raven hair, a purple scarf about her throat, brass earrings and finger-rings, and a whole pint of pinchbeck jewelry, including a Waterbury watch.
“I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .”
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[Relocated Footnote (1): I translate _apiffez_, "bedecked," assuming from the context that the author meant to write "_attifez_.
Indian Games : an historical research
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Your first dive will probably find you very excited about meeting your first giant green turtle, bedecked with remoras, lethargically allowing you to record its portrait.
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And the sea of tricolours bedecking all kinds of vehicles seemed to encourage others to put up their own tricolours.
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It's draped in bunting and bedecked with country frou-frous.
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None of them had "crimped" and none had bedecked their tresses with artificial flowers.
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The lichen-crusted walls bedecked with city grime capture my attention time and time again.
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It was a time when the Italian world bedecked itself with rare golden trinkets, wreaths for women's hair, girdles, brooches, and the like, and the finest skill was needed to satisfy the taste.
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The streets and cars in England might be bedecked with St George flags.
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It was one of those clear wintry days when the sun bedecked the skies with all of its radiant beauty.
L'ombra mostrarsi
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It will be a marvellous occasion when the counties lock horns on Saturday week, and expect a huge crowd to be there bedecked in blue and white.
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Photos from the days after their return show a generously mustachioed, medal-bedecked Momand standing in the back of a parade car.
A Space Oddity
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Next door to a rose-colored, angel-bedecked church, the boxy school glowers behind barred gates like those that surround prisons.
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Paul spent hours locating and reading the inscriptions on the tombstones and monuments, bedecked with harps, shamrocks, and Celtic crosses.
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Carven dragons reared over its gables; horns of elk and aurochs above the doors were gilded; pillars within bore the images of gods - save for Wodan, who had a richly bedecked halidom nearby.
Time Patrolman
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The pre-Christmas season was something Cathy enjoyed when she had time for it—enjoyed the shopping, the Christmas card production, the bedecking of her suburban home with thousands of lights.
Long Way Home
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The hall was bedecked with flags and flowers for the wedding ceremony.
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The girl was bedecked with silk and jewels.
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In June 1897, as the country was bedecked in red, white and blue bunting to celebrate the 60th year of the Queen's reign, the bandstand in Victoria Park, Swinton, was not ready.
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Fore Street will be bedecked with flags and decorations with street entertainment laid on daily from July 12.
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Tonight of all nights you can expect bars and restaurants to bedeck every angle with TVs and those TVs to be tuned into the national elections.
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She arrived in a staid navy suit and stared at the gowns and sequins bedecking owners around her.
Spending the Kitty on Pooches
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Instead we wore the equivalent of NASCAR jumpsuits bedecked with varying vintage shout-outs, bandoleers of band buttons and ironic body accouterments.
The Insular Decade
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The entrance hall was bedecked with trees and tropical plants.
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At the time I figured I could bedeck my hood with a fabulous array of ornaments.
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She remembered alabaster walls bedecked in jewel-framed portraits and detailed landscapes.
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It almost reached the ceiling, and they were bedecking it with crystal moons and golden sun faces and ivory balls with glittering gold trim.
Changeling
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The rooms are bedecked with handmade ornaments and shimmery garlands, and stockings are hung by the chimney with care.
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The cars were all bedecked with flowers for the wedding ceremony.
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The capital, Dublin, was bedecked in green, orange and white, with homes, offices, banks and even cars decorated with the Irish tricolour.
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For as Plutarch saith, [5529] They will be witnesses and trumpeters of their paramours 'good parts, bedecking them with verses and commendatory songs, as we do statues with gold, that they may be remembered and admired of all.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Fox holds a potlatch to signalize his marriage to Lit-Lit and she, "tearfully shy and frightened, is bedecked by her husband with a new calico dress, splendidly beaded mocassins, a gorgeous silk handkerchief over her raven hair, a purple scarf about her throat, brass earrings and finger-rings, and a whole pint of pinchbeck jewelry, including a Waterbury watch.
“I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .”
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The crowd whooped and cheered when Sliwa bedecked the hood ornament of the mayor's Lincoln with a big yellow bow.
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There is nothing cuter than a baby orangutan with its tussle of red hair bedecking a mostly bald head and big brown inquisitive eyes sparkling with wisdom, curiosity, and soulfulness.
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The facade is bedecked with bright orange glass-cure-plastic panels, and the fascias, like many of the inner walls, are painted with colors rendered in aggressively uneven vertical stripes.
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Hair unbound, women bedecked in shmattes of white tulle waft aimlessly around a stage hung with school-pageant clouds.
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The committee of the flowerbedecked town, who received a trophy and €4,000 prize money, was also rewarded for its untiring efforts over the past six months with the regional and county awards.
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She pushed through the door and past the dark mahogany bar, her eyes trailing over the mad mishmash of mirrors and chandeliers, the wood-panelled walls bedecked with mottled old Chinese prints, the crazed fruit plasterwork on the ceiling.
The Priest
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Bedecked in the "gold coin beaded leather harem shift" the final model exits.
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At an even lower level each margin of my lane was bedecked with the thickening growths of sweet cicely, already emitting its attractive, aniseed aroma.
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After all, we can easily arrange to sit far from our exes, across the flower-bedecked aisle, so as not to roil the festive day.
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
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A slightly flushed girl wearing a large white crinoline dress bedecked with small pale pink ribbons and a wide pale pink sash around her waist.
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The masts of said ship are bedecked in rhythmic gymnastics ribbons, and it is crewed by beach volleyballers and the 1996 French synchronised swimming team, who had planned a routine based on the Final Solution.
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Standing behind a Star of David-bedecked podium at Caroline's on Broadway last month, Rachel Gerber of the City Congregation presented her project on the Marx Brothers, which she worked on for more than a year with the help of a New York University film professor, Jack Lechner.
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The songs are anthems for those bedecked in shoulder pads and leg warmers, and yet again it seems that what goes around comes around but it will be interesting to see how the long the fragility and fickleness of the show proves it can last.
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In fact, surfing is a way of life for Sayulita, and young surfers with toned bodies bedecked in the latest fashions appear enthralled by Sayulita.
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His mind went back twenty years to a certain street bedecked with blood-red banners.
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There was a completely delightful visage of writers from dapper individuals bedecked in bowtie and hats in jaunty angles to those disheveled ‘deer caught in the headlamp stares’ as newly published authors; hard to fathom that their manuscript had caught the imagination of a publishing house, clambered onto stage to face hundreds of admiring fans.
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For as Plutarch saith, [5529] They will be witnesses and trumpeters of their paramours 'good parts, bedecking them with verses and commendatory songs, as we do statues with gold, that they may be remembered and admired of all.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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It's a blandly renovated building with a pretentious marquis bedecked with flags.
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In the evening this jealously-guarded Catalan classic, its walls bedecked with FC Barcelona basketball shirts and photos, is often packed with loud and cheery gangs of friends meeting for a few bites before hitting the town.
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My attentions returned to the girl walking up to the podium, bedecked in a slender pale white gown, filmy silken skirts fluttering to her white slippered feet.
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This may explain why our painter is careful to show Athena as about to bedeck Pandora with a characteristically feminine adornment, a fancy necklace.
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The entrance hall was bedecked with trees and tropical plants.
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It was a sparkling occasion as the newly constructed conference centre in the hotel was bedecked in blue and white for the occasion.
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The hall was bedecked using balloons and festoons, with candle-lit tables adding to the carnival ambience.
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The cammie-bedecked protectors cited the mysterious appearance of an oil-like substance having been thrown at the Wall a few days prior to the weekend.
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Always bedecked in classic pearls, a sparkling brooch, and a cozy cardigan, she clearly has accessorizing down pat.
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The 10 female dancers of this Sydney-based company, bedecked in richly colored costumes and jewelled headpieces, performed in late July for a total of three shows.
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In the 15th-century Palazzo Pisani, Karla Black has made the kind of work that whets the appetite for the Turner prize, the award she is tipped to win this December: boulder-size bundles of sugar paper chalked over in shades of peach and pistachio and bedecked with talcous mounds of plaster powder; sheets of paper sprayed with fake tan; and balsa wood painted with eyeshadow.
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Like the stars of heaven, they beset and bestud the oracles of truth, and will forever shine and glitter through all the ages of the nations until every tribe of man shall be bedecked with the gems of truth, and every lip and tongue shall glow with his praise.
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They've already got out the Christmas cakes and puddings, and half an aisle is bedecked in holly and red and green decorations.
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Then came freaks and dwarves, faces pugged or painted, some in horn-bedecked masks sewn with bells, capering on malformed legs and clad in the motley of centunculi, vividly patched coats like fragmented rainbows.
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The palace was bedecked with flags.
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He is bedecked with the crown styled in the Mughal form presented by the former Nizams of Hyderabad as a token of reverence.
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At the school for retarded children, we see one: she has bedecked herself with assorted dolls as elegantly as a young society matron in sable furs.
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Photos from the days after their return show a generously mustachioed, medal-bedecked Momand standing in the back of a parade car.
A Space Oddity
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The wall lights in the great stone walls were bedecked with pink silk shades.
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Then, at half past eight, a column of UniVans headed out through the gate, led by a vehicle bedecked with pennants.
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These when polished by human culture shall bedeck the crown and bestud the heavens of a triumphant and unified civilization.
Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,
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In the evenings, exquisite bronze replicas of the deities travel bedecked in palanquins to bestow blessings on the townsfolk.
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Given their experience with royal weddings and US presidential visits, the police would have coped with the crowds, while the great paymasters of the television networks would have loved the setting amid London's finest landmarks – the Houses of Parliament, the Eye, Nelson's Column – and the mass of humanity swirling up the tree-lined, flag-bedecked boulevard.
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The streets all have to be orange too, bedecked by orange balloons and bunting, ready for the crowds to appear.
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The hall was bedecked with flags and flowers for the wedding ceremony.
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Gold has also become a part of our social customs to such an extent that bedecking a bride with ornaments made of gold is considered a must by the bride's family.
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The ballroom was bedecked with flowers for the reception.
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Like the first cuckoo of spring and the first swallow of the summer I have spotted the first Christmas light bedecked house!
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They trailed in limp defeat, their once proud banners torn from the bosom of the sky, and bedecked with many minute rents and holes within their pale canvass.
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Toys of genius these shadow-boxes bedecked with astronomical adornments are.
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She would wear crinolines at parties, and would wear pretty white dresses bedecked with pretty pastel coloured ribbons.
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Small newspaper rolls stuck together, decorated with floral patterns are designed to bedeck refrigerators.
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The wall lights in the great stone walls were bedecked with pink silk shades.
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Displayed in the shops, which have been bedecked for the occasion, are giant Valentine cards.
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By day, eagles fly and bears waggle before the crowds, men somersaulting and jeweled, bedecked women of all ages eliciting loud shots of "beso" - kiss - from the eager crowd.
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Lit-lit, tearfully shy and frightened, was bedecked by her bearded husband with a new calico dress, splendidly beaded moccasins, a gorgeous silk handkerchief over her raven hair, a purple scarf about her throat, brass ear-rings and finger-rings, and a whole pint of pinchbeck jewellery, including a Waterbury watch.
THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT
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Choosing what to buy in a climate where diamonds are bedecking everything from ladies’ décolletage to outsized gaudery, while changing colors and cuts at will, can be daunting, though.
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Flowers and children bedecking a string, dry petals.
Ece Ayhan
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While Sarge is away, we're likely to see the local boys who have completed their tours and sometimes gather in a home-built "speakeasy," bedecked with the flags of their respective services: Army, Marines, Navy.
While My Son Serves
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An accompanying tower of sweet potatoes separated with parsnip purée and bedecked with haricots verts is downright dapper, as is a spray of crunchy shaved parsnip curlicues.
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Tom Jenkins and the Palm Court Orchestra, playing on a palm and fern bedecked platform, brought a holiday atmosphere to St. George's Hall on Saturday.
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The place is bedecked with excellent furniture, huge gardens, a barn, a wharf and other buildings.
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The room was bedecked as a magical grotto with the symbols of yuletide the theme.
THE PROMISE IN A KISS
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Each table in the Burlington's massive ballroom was bedecked with flowers and nicely augmented with clusters of green and red balloons.
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The move - believed to have been prompted by one worker bedecking his desk in flags -sparked fury last night.
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