How To Use Bedim In A Sentence
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As cloth after cloth is removed, the light seems to grow brighter and stronger, and yet it has changed not, the change being in the removal of the confining and bedimming coverings.
A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga
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But one dark act of fraudful guilt bedimmed my bright career.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
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At a Texas State Fair some four or five years since the President of the Confederate States was seen turning, with eyes bedimmed by tears, away from a picture at which he had been silently gazing.
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It is the unbreakable staff of the arm, it has the powerful luster and its light even bedims the radiance of the sun.
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Percival was suddenly conscious of a mist bedimming his eyes.
West Wind Drift
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But as it proceeds, the clear vision that marks the early part of the Report gets bedimmed and the writers get entangled in the economic defences of the existing system.
The Obstacle of Industrialism
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I shook him warmly by the hand as a tear bedimmed his eye.
Novels by Eminent Hands
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Dirt, one would fancy, is plenty enough all over the world, being the symbolic accompaniment of the foul incrustation which began to settle over and bedim all earthly things as soon as Eve had bitten the apple; ever since which hapless epoch, her daughters have chiefly been engaged in a desperate and unavailing struggle to get rid of it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
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Like the ashen-grey hue that bedims the countenance of the dying,
Through the Magic Door
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a sun bedimmed by clouds
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The daylight from the street then entered in a lurid stream, bedimming the glare of lamps and candles.
A Love Episode
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Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish.
Chapter 7
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Like the ashen-grey hue that bedims the countenance of the dying, a filmy greasy skin appeared to overspread the recent loveliness of the ocean surface.
Through the Magic Door
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English sentiment began to bedim Gallic eyes, and so what we know as the Louis XVI style was born.
The House in Good Taste
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Queen Anaïtis was very beautiful, even under his bedimming shadow.
Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
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With the aid of his spirits, Prospero has 'bedimmed/The noontide sun, called forth the mutinous winds,/And twixt the green sea and the azured vault/Set roaring war'.
Shakespeare
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A breath of New England air touches the cathedral windows of the Old World, and -- I had almost said -- bedims them with a film of evanescent frost-work; yet, as that lingers, we suddenly discern through the veil a charm, a legendary fascination in their deep-gemmed gorgeousness, which, although we have felt it and read of it before, we never seized till now.
A Study of Hawthorne
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Nothing was too much trouble for her to do in the way of helping us, and oftentimes tears would bedim her eyes as she looked at me and baby, who always laughed at her; perhaps thinking of her loneliness after we were gone, perhaps of the possibility of our not returning to Tankar, and even of the uncertainty of life in the far interior.
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
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It seemed as if never so thin a gauze had been drawn over the face of the sun, just faintly bedimming, without obscuring it.
The Cardinal's Snuff-Box
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Unfurled in baleful grandeur, like some dark cloud of heaven, surcharged with thunder and the brewing tempest, it rides the air, and bedims the beams of day.
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In other words, astral and physical darkness bedim the soul's spiritual sight, and, leaving the realms of innocence and bliss, they sink into the vortex of the great astral world.
The light of Egypt; or, The science of the soul and the stars
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A breath of New England air touches the cathedral windows of the Old World, and ” I had almost said ” bedims them with a film of evanescent frost-work; yet, as that lingers, we suddenly discern through the veil a charm, a legendary fascination in their deep-gemmed gorgeousness, which, although we have felt it and read of it before, we never seized till now.
A Study Of Hawthorne
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In they came, their eyes bedimmed with tears, and took their seats in all humility near the chair of the lady whom Paris the archer once wedded, one on this side, one on that, to right and left, with weapons on them; and both threw their suppliant arms round the knees of
Orestes
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And with fond threats, and tears bedimming her soft eyes,
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
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When the consciousness is bedimmed, when the higher concepts seem far removed, at least ponder about unity in actions of good.
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This is often translated into a feeling of ‘distance’, specifically the notion of observing or having one's view bedimmed or obscured by some form of barrier.
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You meet, for example, two or three Tradesmen in the street, whom you recognize at once to be Tradesmen by a glance at their angles and rapidly bedimmed sides, and you ask them to step into your house to lunch.
Flatland: a romance of many dimensions
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It was ten minutes past eight o'clock, the shades of night were already bedimming the landscape -- a vast plain which the evening mist seemed to prolong into the infinite, and where, far away, bright dots of light shone out from the windows of lonely, scattered houses.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete
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He told one correspondent that “Henry A. can never be in the nature of things a very spacious or sympathetic companion and Mrs. A. strikes me as toned down and bedimmed from her ancient brilliancy.”
The Five of Hearts
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The tear which bedims my eye, is an evidence of the sincerity with which I subscribe myself
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
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The tear which bedims my eye is an evidence of the sincerity with which I subscribe myself your affectionate friend,
The Opium Habit
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But he thought also of the beauty of Maria, of the sweetness of her smile, and of the tears of voiceless gratitude which he had seen bedimming the lustre of her bright eyes.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII
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And darting upon the paper, with eyes bedimmed, and voice choked with emotion, he read the whole document from the last letter to the first.
Journey to the Interior of the Earth
