bedizen

• 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 If the object of Napoleon was so ignominious, contemptible, and criminal, as we know it to have been, in producing the war of 1854, with what obloquy must England be covered for allowing herself to be beguiled into such a war by such a juggler The pretended cause of the Crimean war, as alleged, was the threatened invasion of Turkey by Nicholas. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
• I'st teach yo to burn three candles down awbut to nothink 'at yo may bedizen yorsel in this way. —  The History of David Grieve
• Sometimes people cover their heads with filth or ashes; and sometimes they bedizen them with crape and white streamers. —  The British Barbarians
• "Oh yes, I will bedizen myself to oblige her. —  Clever Woman of the Family
• Lords, ladies, like clouds which bedizen —  Dramatic Romances

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