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Definition of Bespangles
1. bespangle [v] - See also: bespangle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bespangles
Literary usage of Bespangles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry edited by Epes Sargent (1882)
"... clear of fog, The long lake glistens, while the glorious beam bespangles the wet
... bespangles ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... bright dew bespangles all the plain, And sod the wakeful lark renews her »train ;
On some fair bank, where circling waters play, The placid scene ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"... who bespangles history with his brilliant little imaginative lamps, sometimes
shedding a true white light on. the figure which he is contemplating, ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1826)
"We should treat with more indulgence his fondness for oratorical display, and
the numerous speeches with which, after the manner of Livy, he bespangles his ..."
5. History of Prose Fiction by John Colin Dunlop (1906)
"Flora " spreads her fragrant mantle on the superficies of the earth, and bespangles
the verdant grass with her beauteous adornments;" and a lover " enters a ..."
6. American Ballads and Songs by Louise Pound (1922)
"Each morn when the sun guiles the east, The green grass bespangles with dew,
He'll cast his bright beams on the west To cheer the sad Caroline's view- O ..."
7. Kettell, Samuel: Specimens of American Poetry by Samuel Kettell (1829)
"Who generates the hoary frost ? and who bespangles morning with his orient dew ?
Hath mist a sire ? canst thou congeal the main ? ..."
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