Buenos Aires's richly mixed heritage and turbulent past seem to play into every facet of its culture, including its dark cinema, diverse yet perpetually meat-heavy cuisine, the wild street art that bedecks the neighborhoods of Palermo and Villa Crespo, a counterpoint to the graceful décor of the bars and eateries. ❋ Unknown (2011)
How it bedecks, deflowers, beflowers a supra-militarized past by dragging it into a dingy military relic! ❋ Unknown (2008)
It claims the front and back pages and bedecks the tabloids. ❋ David Vognar (2010)
A wondrous spell of gramarye like Kohl bedecks his eyne, ❋ Unknown (2006)
We received a response tonight to the inquiry we sent Purina on 4/09/07 asking if there was any truth to the rumors (which we spread) that the recurrent "Woman And Kitty" imagery that bedecks numbers of their pet food packages seemed to recall, if not draw directly from, the "Madonna And Child" motif (undoubtedly to serve manipulative marketing ends). ❋ Unknown (2007)
Common to them were all the fantastic and enormous shapes with which Nature bedecks her robes beneath the fierce suns and fattening rains of the tropic forest. ❋ Unknown (2007)
This is one of those occasions when the woman bedecks the jewels and not vice versa. ❋ V.C. Andrews (2002)
At any rate, here she was, crisp and fresh-looking; and with the new shining costume, she had put on the long promised "company manner": high spirits and badinage, precisely like any belle of the world of luxury, who powders and bedecks herself for a ball. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)
You shall know her, too, by the gold that bedecks her skirt, by the light that glimmers in her hair. ' ❋ Mary Esther Miller MacGregor (1918)
They know its gaudy, glittering surface, its Crystal Palace fireworks, and the paste-diamonds with which it bedecks itself; they know its music-halls and its night clubs, its Piccadillys and its politics, its restaurants and its salons; but of the bad -- or good? ❋ Richard Le Gallienne (1906)
He seems to be living here in a very plain and unpretentious manner; no gaudy stained glass, no tinsel, no mirror-work, no vain gew-gaws of any description impart a cheap and garish glitter to the place; no gorgeous apparel bedecks his ample proportions. ❋ Thomas Stevens (1894)
In a land where a captain bedecks himself like a field-marshal, Walker wore his trousers stuffed in his boots, a civilian's blue frock-coat, and the slouch hat of the period, with, for his only ornament, the red ribbon of the Democrats. ❋ Richard Harding Davis (1890)
"Had I lived in the reign of good Queen Anne," wrote Lord Lyttelton, "my baby face must have been adorned with a full-bottomed periwig as large as that which bedecks the head and shoulders of Mr Justice Blackstone when he scowls at the unhappy culprit who is arraigned before him." ❋ William Andrews (1878)
The young woman also, even here as everywhere else, bedecks herself as best she can; but fair she certainly is not in our eyes. ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)
Lonicera chrysantha fill the air with their fragrance, when the syringas bloom and the Hylonecon bedecks large tracts with a bright golden hue, when corydales, violets, and pasque flowers are open, the forests near the Ousuree may bear comparison in variety of richness and coloring with the open woods of the prairie country. ❋ Thomas Wallace Knox (1865)
Without a cultivation of the spirit in harmony with its immortal destiny, all that this world calls culture is but the gilded tinsel that bedecks the putrefaction of death. ❋ Robert Graham (1861)
