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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
bespangle .
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Examples
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The beauty of flowers growing in the fields is disguised under the statement that Flora "spreads her fragrant mantle on the superficies of the earth, and bespangles the verdant grass with her beauteous adornments."
A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman
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The Pilewort, or lesser Celandine, bespangles all our banks with its brilliant, glossy, golden stars, coming into blossom on or about March 7th, St. Perpetua's day.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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When summer bespangles the landscape with flowers,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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The spider spins its web and the morning bespangles it with dew, creating a thing of beauty, but valueless.
A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece Charles Stewart Given
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The Spirit, where it is, stamps the impress of its own holiness upon the heart; it embroiders and bespangles the soul, and makes it all glorious within.
The Ten Commandments 1692
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It is God that bespangles the creation, that puts light into the sun, that fills the veins of the earth with silver.
The Ten Commandments 1692
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He bespangles the word with promises; as if a father should bid his son read his last will and testament, wherein he makes over a fair estate to him.
The Ten Commandments 1692
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