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When I came to myself I strengthened my heart and, entering, found myself in a chamber whose floor was bespread with saffron and blazing with light from branched candelabra of gold and lamps fed with costly oils, which diffused the scent of musk and ambergris.

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And therein stood censers of aloes-wood and ambergris and strong-scented musk, and at the upper end was a couch bespread with cloth of gold on which he seated himself, marvelling at the magnificence he saw and knowing not what was written for him in the Secret Purpose.

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So they lined the road on either hand, and the birds bespread their wings over the host of creatures to shade them, warbling one to other in all manner of voices and tongues.

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The old man brought him into one of the parlours, which was variegated with many-coloured marbles, the ceiling thereof being decorated with ultramarine and glowing gold; and the floor bespread with silken carpets.

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No whaler could attack the huge rollers that raised their monstrous backs, plunged over with a furious roar, and bespread the beach with a swirl of foam.

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The numerous ornaments, also, with which the hoops were bespread and decorated -- the festoons -- the tassels -- the rich embroidery -- all of a most

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 353, January 24, 1829 Various

They were the simplest sayings and doings of childhood, -- handfuls of such wild-flowers as bespread the green turf of nursery-life everywhere, but miraculous blossoms in the eyes of these good women, whom Saint Agnes had unwittingly deprived of any power of making comparisons or ever having Christ's sweetest parable of the heavenly kingdom enacted in homes of their own.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various

However, he expressed satisfaction with the mahogany side-board that some previous occupant had loaned from a neighbouring house; our servants had bespread it with newspapers and made a washing-table of it.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

Then renewed strength will come to thy limbs, then shall undreamed-of might enter thy sinews, and an accumulation of stout force shall bespread and nerve thy frame through-out.

The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

When I came to myself I strengthened my heart, and entering found myself in a chamber bespread with saffron and blazing with light ....

The Fortieth Door Mary Hastings Bradley