How To Use dizen In A Sentence
- This, and not amusement, would have profited those high-dizened persons. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
- 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
- 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
- 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
- “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
- Processions enough walk in jubilee; of Young Women, decked and dizened, their ribands all tricolor; moving with song and tabor, to the Shrine of Sainte Genevieve, to thank her that the Bastille is down. The French Revolution
- 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!
- 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?
- The Japanese General Homma, licked to a standstill and dead by his own hand, was a handful of ashes in a bedizened shrine.
- Roman tales of Cleopatra as louche and languid, a bedizened wastrel, are probably crudely slanted. In All Her Infinite Variety
