Lexicographical Neighbors of Bespots
Literary usage of Bespots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"... To that degree that mutton can't be kep' a day to cat ; They swarms in every
pantry ; and them of smaller size bespots and spatters ..."
2. Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God by Stephen Charnock, William Symington (1874)
"2. It renders the worship not only unacceptable, but abominable to God. It makes
our gold to become dross, it soils our duties, and bespots our souls. ..."
3. The American Rose Annual by American Rose Society (1918)
"Foliage very plentiful, bespots in midsummer, becoming much coming plentiful in
late summer, black- less toward fall; bloom abundant two weeks in mid-June. ..."
4. The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture by Joseph Parker (1887)
"The light dust which bespots the outer garment may be removed by gentle means.
When a man feels that he has not sinned deeply he is in no mood to receive ..."
5. The complete works of Stephen Charnock by Stephen Charnock, James M'Cosh (1865)
"And the proper use of blood is not to cleanse, for it defiles and bespots anything
whereon it is dropped ; but morally considered, as the shedding of blood ..."
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