Among the philistines he excoriated were a bevy of “bediamonded women” he had once encountered in a Fifth Avenue drawing room. ❋ Patricia O'Toole (2008)
She had his coat and bediamonded linen in her hands, and she clutched the ❋ Various (N/A)
One morning Missy awoke to a dawn of mildest sifted light and bediamonded dew upon the grass; soft plumes of silver, through the mist, seemed to trim the vines of the summerhouse and made her catch her breath in ecstasy. ❋ Dana Gatlin (N/A)
At least she was not the last, for in front of the mirror stood a portly, bediamonded dame, gazing intently into the glass and putting the last touches to her toilet with stolid equanimity. ❋ Maud Wilder Goodwin (N/A)
And when a door opens and a bediamonded Lady moves to her motor over carpets unrolled by powdered footmen, I can easily think her some great Courtezan, or some half-believed Duchess, hurrying to card-tables and lit candles and strange scenes of joy. ❋ Unknown (1921)
There was a group of three or four cheery, buxom, much-bediamonded, much-massaged women, whose occasionally appearing husbands were sleek and overdressed. ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)
In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and beshawled, bediamonded women. ❋ Unknown (1915)
At this an interested group gathered around Mrs. Tuttle, who, affable and indulgent, attempted by coaxings and flirtings of a fat bediamonded finger to show Romeo off, but the pampered bird saw further opportunity to offend. ❋ Various (1915)
Presently the cart-ruts disappeared in fine grass all bediamonded, knobbed with heather, sprouting rusty-red, and sprinkled with tussocks of coarser grass, whereon green blades sprang up above the dead ones, where they struggled, matted and bleached and sere. ❋ Eden Phillpotts (1911)
A sumptuous expanse of linen exhibited itself between the lapels of his low-cut waistcoat, and an inch of bediamonded breastpin glittered there, like an ice-ledge on a snowy mountain side. ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)
And Mr. Cantor followed him, slight and bediamonded in his evening clothes. ❋ Ridgwell Cullum (1905)
The grass was crisp and bediamonded with sparkling frost. ❋ Zane Grey (1905)
For these millionaires are bediamonded all over with good intentions. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
I almost wish Murray'd give the bediamonded cad a thrashing, -- only that the fellow's not worth his touching. ❋ Barbara Yechton (1901)
Youths in high hats and shining shirt-fronts stood in groups conversing loudly, and in the resplendent dining-hall bediamonded women and their sleek-haired, heavy-jewelled partners were eating leisurely, attended by swarms of waiters so eager they trod upon one another's feet. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
Geraldine, bewildered and a little horrified, looked at her billowy, bediamonded hostess, then at young Delancy Grandcourt, who, not perceptibly abashed by his mother's left-handed compliments, lounged beside her, apparently on the verge of a yawn. ❋ A. B. [Illustrator] Wenzell (1899)
"Sid," appreciating this, dared not laugh: he endeavored to redeem this lack of beauty by a display of his white bediamonded hand on his watch-guard, as he entreated a partner for the dance, but he was not held for much; that was evident. ❋ Sarah P. McLean Greene (1895)
