Bespangle

Word BESPANGLE
Character 9
Hyphenation be span gle
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Bespangle"

What do we mean by bespangle?

To cover something with spangles.

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The word "bespangle" in example sentences

The fixed stars which enamel and bespangle the concave expanse, or canopy of heaven, by numbers and lustre, make the night beauteous and delightful, which would otherwise be dark and horrible. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

It exists in, and influences every atom, whose combinations compose and constitute the entire material creation, or each and every orb that bespangle the blue infinity. ❋ William George Hooper (N/A)

Just enough light for the dullest colors, the faintest reflections to produce an admirable effect, from the reddish-gray tone of the monuments to the gleams of jet which bespangle a woman's dress. ❋ Various (N/A)

I always reside in conveyances and the animals that drag them, in maidens, in ornaments and good vestments, in sacrifices, in clouds charged with rain, in full-blown lotuses, and in those stars that bespangle the autumnal firmament. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

The clouds bespangle with bright gold their blue: 45 ❋ Unknown (1919)

For if the dead appear to the living mainly in the hours of darkness, it seems not unnatural to imagine that the bright points of light which then bespangle the canopy of heaven are either the souls of the departed or fires kindled by them in their home aloft. ❋ James George Frazer (1897)

Go out in the evening and see the dew gather drop by drop upon the grass, or trace the delicate hoar-frost crystals which bespangle every blade on a winter's morning. ❋ Arabella B. Buckley (1884)

Let them give up their unspeakably silly ambition to bespangle their lists of officers with these doctorial titles. ❋ William James (1876)

The stars, which to the number of several millions bespangle the sky, are not scattered uniformly. ❋ Unknown (1876)

Those orbs, seemingly countless -- which bespangle the dark robe of night -- have a charm and beauty of their own apart from the significance with which the science of astronomy has invested them. ❋ Unknown (1862)

The very gems that now lie buried in the bosom of the ocean, would then bespangle its surface, and the dumb tenants of the watery tracts, inured to their blaze, would learn to leave the caverns of the sea and gaze upon the sun. ❋ William Godwin (1796)

It exhorts us to labour for contentation; this is that which doth beautify and bespangle a Christian, and as a spiritual embroidery, doth set him off in the eyes of the world. ❋ Unknown (1653)

All the stars also which bespangle the firmament and cast a glimmering to earth, will disappear from their accustomed place. ❋ Unknown (2009)

D. 's, bespangle the page as if they were sprinkled over it from a pepper caster. " ❋ William James (1876)

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