bedizen

• “Thou art in mourning now, as well as I: but if ever thy ridiculous turn lead thee again to be beau-brocade, I will bedizen thee, as the girls say, on my return, to my own fancy, and according to thy own natural appearance — Thou shalt doctor my soul, and I will doctor thy body: thou shalt see what a clever fellow I will make of thee.”

  Clarissa Harlowe

• “We, whose fathers at least were Christians, who have grown up under those mediaeval arches even if we bedizen them with all the demons in”

  The Complete Father Brown

• “Prithee, young one, who art thou, and what has ailed thy mother to bedizen thee in this strange fashion?”

  The Scarlet Letter

• “I wasn't sure quite why I had resisted the array of baubles with which she had tried to further bedizen me; perhaps it was mere dislike of fussiness.”

  Drums of Autumn

• “And Lily went up to her dressing-room; she wanted to look her best, to bedizen herself ... a little red on her lips, a little blue on her eyelids”

  The Bill-Toppers

• “It was the aid of Russia which enabled her to overthrow the great Napoleon, and now she permits the little Napoleon to bully her into a war with Russia that he may bedizen his name with the glory of a conflict with the conqueror of his illustrious kinsman.”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864

• “He deplores himself, he distrusts himself, he plainly wishes heartily that he was not himself, but he never makes the slightest attempt to disguise and bedizen himself.”

  Prejudices : first series,

• “I will so bedizen your virile, though somewhat crassly practical gifts ---- Why, women are my long suit.”

  Free Air

• “Thus a Frenchman, viewing the undraped statues which bedizen his native galleries of art, either enjoys them in a purely aesthetic fashion -- which is seldom possible save when he is in liquor -- or confesses frankly that he doesn't like them at all; whereas the visiting Americano is so powerfully shocked and fascinated by them that one finds him, the same evening, in places where no respectable man ought to go.”

  Damn! A Book of Calumny

• “I don't know what sort of a way you'd bedizen yourself out if I'd let you, I'm sure.”

  Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908

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