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  • "They don't use their faces as weapons on their masters," he assured, then gave a demonstration: He unhooded the hawk and set it on his begloved wrist.

    A Whole Other Ball Game Heidi Mitchell 2012

  • She threw up her purple-begloved hands in a defensive gesture, as if she had discovered a pocket of nuclear waste down there.

    And yet they tell me it isn't life-threatening. Angry Professor 2007

  • If it were to go a-hawking or a-hunting, the ladies mounted upon dainty well-paced nags, seated in a stately palfrey saddle, carried on their lovely fists, miniardly begloved every one of them, either a sparrowhawk or a laneret or a marlin, and the young gallants carried the other kinds of hawks.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • At her library desk, begloved once more, this time in creamy four-button mochas, she opened the brown-papered parcel of stockings.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • At her library desk, begloved once more, this time in creamy four-button mochas, she opened the brown-papered parcel of stockings.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • If it were to go a-hawking or a-hunting, the ladies mounted upon dainty well-paced nags, seated in a stately palfrey saddle, carried on their lovely fists, miniardly begloved every one of them, either a sparrowhawk or a laneret or a marlin, and the young gallants carried the other kinds of hawks.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Another girl, pretty and well-dressed, -- in the glove-making line, as I guess from the family she is with, all of whom, from paterfamilias to baby, are begloved in a manner entirely irrespective of expense, -- is kneeling pensively on the stern-benches of the upper deck, paying out the line with confidence in herself, but evidently hoping for masculine assistance in the process of hauling it in.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

  • With them were a rakish-looking elderly man and a young aristocrat, his eyeglass still in his eye, his cigarette burned down to the stub between the fingers of his begloved hand.

    The Poison Belt: Being an Account of Another Amazing Adventure of Professor Challenger 1913

  • With them were a rakish-looking elderly man and a young aristocrat, his eyeglass still in his eye, his cigarette burned down to the stub between the fingers of his begloved hand.

    The Poison Belt Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1913

  • Curly opened the door a moment later, peering in cautiously, the sunshine casting a rude outline upon the floor, and his figure to those within showing silhouetted against the background of light, beleggined, befringed, and begloved after the fashion of his craft.

    The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains Emerson Hough 1890

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  • Michael Jackson's autobiography reveals that he is descended from Sethe's third child, thereby rooting his artistic genius in his surreal heritage.

    January 30, 2008