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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
beslobber .
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Examples
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Polito's polar bear, drops on his knees, and before you can avert your nose from a love-speech, embalmed in the fumes of tobacco and purl, the hoary villain has beslobbered your lily-white fingers, and is protesting unalterable affection, at the rate of twelve miles an hour, inclusive of stoppages.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828 Various
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James lifted a beslobbered face, stared at the speaker for a single instant, and then allowed his head to fall upon his hands again.
VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea David Christie Murray
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But at a yell from the high priest the counterfeit dead men started to their feet and ran down to the river to cleanse themselves from the blood and guts of pigs with which they were beslobbered.
Chapter 67. The External Soul in Folk-Custom. § 4. The Ritual of Death and Resurrection 1922
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But at a yell from the high priest the counterfeit dead men started to their feet and ran down to the river to cleanse themselves from the blood and guts of pigs with which they were beslobbered.
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For one moment I had a vision of a horrible mask like a giant toad's, of a warty, leprous skin, and of a loose mouth all beslobbered with fresh blood.
The Lost World 1912
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I remembered again the blood-beslobbered face which we had seen in the glare of Lord John's torch, like some horrible vision from the deepest circle of Dante's hell.
The Lost World 1912
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But at a yell from the high priest the counterfeit dead men started to their feet and ran down to the river to cleanse themselves from the blood and guts of pigs with which they were beslobbered.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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Kept on mumbling 'No! No! No!' like an old parrot, his head all of a tremble, all beslobbered with betel-nut juice.
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He beslobbered them with crocodile tears; allowed them to return to the monastery of Skete; afforded them his gracious forgiveness for the murderous wrongs which he had inflicted upon them; and declared that he had never met so admirable a monk as their brother, Ammonius!
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895
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For one moment I had a vision of a horrible mask like a giant toad's, of a warty, leprous skin, and of a loose mouth all beslobbered with fresh blood.
The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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