besung

And the practice persisted through many a renaissance where Lauras and Beatrices were besung, down to the brilliant encyclopaedists of the eighteenth century with their avowed loves, down to our Goethe and John Stuart Mill.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

The first was an old one about Prince Eugene, who was another hero, loved in camps, and besung with ardor around every watchfire.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

This exploit was besung by Bess in a most zealous strain of eulogy:

The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

That was its sole use, but for thus making golden daylight in the deep it was worshipped, besung, called adoring names, by nixies swimming around it in a sort of joyous rite.

The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

Montenegro, on the other hand, "the Tsar's only friend," besung by

Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle 1903

They have the finest hilts and scabbards, and are besung as invested with a charm or spell, and symbolic of loyalty and self-control, for they must never be drawn lightly.

Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885

Besides, a good many of these much-besung ladies were no young brides, but mature and withering matrons.

In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc 1879

Why has Yarrow been so much more besung than Tweed, in spite of the greater stream's far greater and more varied loveliness?

Angling Sketches Andrew Lang 1878

When Britain first, at Heaven's command, arose, with a great deal of allegorical confusion, from out the azure main, did her guardian angels positively forbid it in the Charter which has been so much besung?

The Uncommercial Traveller 1861

When Britain first, at Heaven's command, arose, with a great deal of allegorical confusion, from out the azure main, did her guardian angels positively forbid it in the Charter which has been so much besung?

The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841