How To Use Bedizen In A Sentence
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a shade or two at most frostily touched by the winter of old age -- but a berouged, beraddled, bedizened old make-believe, with wrinkles plastered thick, and skinny shoulders dusted white with powder -- ah me, how you would wish you had not gone!
Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches
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Oh, and I think someone who can produce the glorious phrase ‘gorgeously-bedizened gasbag’ is not someone who missed out on a visit by the fairy godmother of lyricism in their crib.
And Again, Love « Tales from the Reading Room
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The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet and bedizened with gold and jewels and pearls.
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Mark the grace with which he vaults nimbly into the driver's seat beside the bedizened trot in the feathered bonnet-his aunt, doubtless-and with an expert chuck on the reins sets the team in motion and bogs the whole contraption axeldeep in the gumbo.
Isabelle
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From the Hôtel du Chancelier the winter view over the bright, beautiful city, glittering only yesterday in its winter bedizenment of frost and snow, was changed.
A Modern Mercenary
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In her one good scene, a bewigged, bedizened Crawford chases a properly terrified teen away from her quarry, shouting at her.
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The Japanese General Homma, licked to a standstill and dead by his own hand, was a handful of ashes in a bedizened shrine.
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Do you ever suppose that Jesus walked about bedizened in priestly robes and a crown, and with yon jewels on his breast, and a gilt aureole round his head?
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Sunday bedizened in Spanish finery, with such a blaze and rustle, that the good vicar had to remonstrate humbly with Mrs. Leigh on the disturbance which she caused to the eyes and thoughts of all his congregation.
Westward Ho!
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“I should have said so too,” quoth Sigismund, “for I had peeped into her bedroom before she went thither, and it was so bedizened that a queen or a princess might have slept in it and why should the wench get out of her good quarters, with all her friends about her to guard her, and go out to wander in the forest?”
Anne of Geierstein
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And Lily went up to her dressing-room; she wanted to look her best, to bedizen herself ... a little red on her lips, a little blue on her eyelids
The Bill-Toppers
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Therefore, if he were to seek a match in a proper spirit, he should weigh the ancestry, and not be smitten by the looks; for though looks were a lure to temptation, yet their empty bedizenment had tarnished the white simplicity of many a man.
The Danish History, Books I-IX
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See Tomkins with a telescope and marine jacket; young Nathan and young Abrams, already bedizened in jewellery, and rivalling the sun in oriental splendour; yonder poor invalid crawling along in her chair; yonder jolly fat lady examining the Brighton pebbles (I actually once saw a lady buy one), and her children wondering at the sticking-plaister portraits with gold hair, and gold stocks, and prodigious high-heeled boots, miracles of art, and cheap at seven-and-sixpence!
The Newcomes
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Roman tales of Cleopatra as louche and languid, a bedizened wastrel, are probably crudely slanted.
In All Her Infinite Variety
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There she has remained since as a show, and moreover as a sort of dining-hall for jovial parties from the city; one of which would seem to be on board this afternoon, to judge from the flags which bedizen the masts, the sounds of revelry and savory steams which issue from those windows which once were portholes, and the rushing to and fro along the river brink, and across that lucky bridge, of white-aproned waiters from the neighboring Pelican Inn. A great feast is evidently toward, for with those white-aproned waiters are gay serving men, wearing on their shoulders the city-badge.
Westward Ho!
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In such a furbelowed, tasseled and bedizened production, the greatest of singers would have a difficult time making an impression.
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Well Mr. Rennie, the Midterm Roundup thinks you are bedizened.
Midterm Roundup
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The night foreman of the station, a person of bedizenment and pride, stared at them as they alighted at Chelmsford and glanced around like strangers.
Our Mr. Wrenn
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Thus a Frenchman, viewing the undraped statues which bedizen his native galleries of art, either enjoys them in a purely aesthetic fashion -- which is seldom possible save when he is in liquor -- or confesses frankly that he doesn't like them at all; whereas the visiting Americano is so powerfully shocked and fascinated by them that one finds him, the same evening, in places where no respectable man ought to go.
Damn! A Book of Calumny
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We, whose fathers at least were Christians, who have grown up under those mediaeval arches even if we bedizen them with all the demons in
The Complete Father Brown
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Having well-nigh stifled his countryman with embraces, and besmeared himself with pulville from head to foot, he proceeded in this manner, “Mercy upon thee, knight, thou art so transmographied, and bedaubed, and bedizened, that thou mought rob thy own mother without fear of information.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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After all, rare is the writing for the stage that can make casual if telling use of the word "bedizened," an adjective that itself amplifies our appreciation of the discourse on display: Synge's gift for verbal ornamentation was rich indeed.
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She bedizened herself with cheap jewels.
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Chinamen poured down on him, a hideous bedizenment of vermilion war-devils painted on their blue tunics and banners and shields.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
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He deplores himself, he distrusts himself, he plainly wishes heartily that he was not himself, but he never makes the slightest attempt to disguise and bedizen himself.
Prejudices : first series,
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Near the middle, Semiha Berksoy, a 90-year-old Turkish opera squawker, campily bedizened and reclining on a sofa, is slowly propelled across the stage as a recording of the Liebestod is encroached on by her decrepit screech.
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For this was the unfortunate moment which he chose to launch another of his impassioned diatribes at the worldliness, the luxury, the intrigues, the meretricious bedizenment of wealthy and high-born women.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
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Therewithal she rightly apprehends the danger Bertram is in from the wordy, cozening squirt, the bedizened, scoundrelly dandiprat, who has so beguiled his youth and ignorance.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
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Thou art in mourning now, as well as I: but if ever thy ridiculous turn lead thee again to be beau-brocade, I will bedizen thee, as the girls say, on my return, to my own fancy, and according to thy own natural appearance — Thou shalt doctor my soul, and I will doctor thy body: thou shalt see what a clever fellow I will make of thee.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Bedizen not yourselves with the bedizenment of the Time of Ignorance.
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
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Wherefore the she-wolf went red and white by turns, and fumed, and fretted her bedizenments with unrestful hands, and when she should let us go our ways, she lingered and looked back oft, and was loth to depart ere she had gotten what she lacked, and that, forsooth, was the said flasket.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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The picture showed a lady sitting there upright, bedizened in a fur hat and fur boa, with her entire forearm vanishing inside a heavy fur muff that she held out toward the viewer.
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
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Absentees had just returned from the coast, and the youths were brave in their gaudy bedizenment, their new barsatis, their soharis, and long cloths of bright new kaniki, with which they had adorned themselves behind some bush before they had suddenly appeared dressed in all this finery.
How I Found Livingstone
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Thus, near the middle, Semiha Berksoy, a 90-year-old Turkish opera squawker, campily bedizened and reclining on a sofa, is slowly propelled across the stage as a recording of the Liebestod is encroached on by her decrepit screech.
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Pummice, the splendid house-painters at Dollington, arrived with his artists and charwomen to give the Assembly Room its annual touching-up and bedizenment, preparatory to the Hunt Ball.
Wylder's Hand
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Fancy a pagne or skirt all formed of little strips of material bedizened with red and black hieroglyphics, stiffened with bitumen, and apparently belonging to a freshly unbandaged mummy.
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-- Why have you bedizened yourself in that fashion? "he asked, with an affectation of 'brusquerie', as he tried to recover his power of speech.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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The spiritual heart of a Vegas Christmas is the perfectly cone-shaped, 60-foot synthetic tree in front of Caesars Palace, bedizened with 216,510 lights.
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The sparkling, bedizened, colourful Khan army had started marching nonetheless, spears and scimitars held high, saluting the sun.
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It's nice to bedizen the place up every so often.
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But some great demonstration was plainly toward; for the children of the forest were arrayed in two lines, right and left of the open space, the men in front, and the women behind; and all bedizened, to the best of their power, with arnotto, indigo, and feathers.
Westward Ho!
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Prithee, young one, who art thou, and what has ailed thy mother to bedizen thee in this strange fashion?
The Scarlet Letter
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I will so bedizen your virile, though somewhat crassly practical gifts ---- Why, women are my long suit.
Free Air
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It was the aid of Russia which enabled her to overthrow the great Napoleon, and now she permits the little Napoleon to bully her into a war with Russia that he may bedizen his name with the glory of a conflict with the conqueror of his illustrious kinsman.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
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With your colored eyes, you must have viewed those great ladies who stand on the high, bright terrace, turning ironically at their narrow waists, while the bedizened trains of their gowns, spreading out on the stairs, trail off on the sand in the garden.
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
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Their hair was bedizened by hundreds of tiny silver-white water beads.
Here Comes Another Lesson
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I wasn't sure quite why I had resisted the array of baubles with which she had tried to further bedizen me; perhaps it was mere dislike of fussiness.
Drums of Autumn
