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Definition of Bestarred
1. bestar [v] - See also: bestar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bestarred
Literary usage of Bestarred
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1897)
"Its waters were resonant with its tumbling over myriad stones and crocodiles.
Masses of the moon's ambrosial dew bestarred its banks, flowing down from the ..."
2. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"He swears considerably in his talk, and tells filthy garrison stories after dinner.
On account of his rank and his services, people pay the bestarred and ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1913)
"The dark land lay alone in the midst of the waters, like a mighty ship bestarred
with vigilant lights—a ship carrying the burden of millions of lives—a ship ..."
4. The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography by Henry E. Adams (1918)
"... and thought it very amusing to see these beribboned and bestarred foreigners
caught and tossed and gored on the horns of this jovial, slashing, ..."
5. Contemporary Portraits by Frank Harris (1915)
""His pose as the high and mighty Trismegistus kills him for me as it killed him
for Heine. I always see him in his court dress, bestarred, beribboned, ..."
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