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  • Poor Karpik, it seems, caught the infection, and conceived a violent passion for a hat and coat bedizzened with embroidery; and it is amusing to remark his wayward ingenuity, when insisting upon being gratified.

    The Moravians in Labrador Anonymous

  • "It is not good enough," Martha sobbed, "that you accept this brown-skinned, jewel-bedizzened woman-god; but you must make love to her; and I, wed to you by the Book, nine months gone with _Kinndt_, am to make no fuss."

    Blind Man's Lantern Allen Kim Lang

  • Lord, madam, I took him for a captain, he's so bedizzened with lace!

    The Beaux-Stratagem George Farquhar

  • Seeing a fine opportunity for a strategical maneuver, I succeeded in planting a heavy blow on the proboscis of one of my tormentors, which bedizzened his vision.

    Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive Alf Burnett

  • Beautiful dames in brocade with coifs of lace; seigneurs bedizzened from top to toe; peasants in flowered jackets like those of our grandfathers, -- everything with an ancient air, faded, dusty, worn-out.

    In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I Christmas Tales from 'Round the World 1902

  • In vain did New York enter the lists, bedizzened and enveloped in silk and diamonds, or the energetic, rosy, dashing western girl, contend with almost pugilistic skill.

    The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked. 1865

  • The coquettish mule had small feet, a nicely trimmed tassel of a tail, perked up ears, and seemed much given to little tosses of the head, affected skips and prances; and, if he wore the bells, or were bedizzened with a bit of finery, put on as many airs as any belle.

    Hospital Sketches 1863

  • Touching pattern -- a carpet should _not _be bedizzened out like

    The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 Edgar Allan Poe 1829

  • The veriest bumpkin, on entering an apartment so bedizzened, would be instantly aware of something wrong, although he might be altogether unable to assign a cause for his dissatisfaction.

    The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 Edgar Allan Poe 1829

  • Anticipating this common invitation, our friend Sprightly, indignant at this unprovoked attack of Doctor Lobelia, had, in order to disguise himself, exchanged his clerical garb for a friend's blue coatee bedizzened with metal buttons; and also had erected a very tasteful and sharp coxcomb on his head, out of hair usually reposing sleek and quiet in the most saint-like decorum; and then, at the bid from the pulpit-stump, out stepped Mr. Sprightly from the opposite spice-wood grove, and advanced with a step so smirky and dandyish as to create universal amazement and whispered demands -- "Why! who's that?"

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) Various 1887

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