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I doe nothing without blithnesse; and an over obstinate continuation and plodding contention doth dazle, dul, and wearie the same: my sight is thereby confounded and diminished.

Of Bookes. 1909

These favours, with the commodities that follow minion24 Courtiers, corrupt (not without some colour of reason) his libertie, and dazle his judgement.

Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson. 1909

Many Factors to dazle their Employers for a Time, and in the mean while to procure more Consignments; send Home a high Account of Sales, by the Shopkeepers giving a great Advance in Consideration of a very long Credit, and to be drawn out in Shop Notes.

A Discourse Concerning the Currencies of the British Plantations in America 1740

Many Factors to dazle their Employers for a Time, and in the mean while to procure more Consignments; send Home a high Account of

A Discourse Concerning the Currencies of the British Plantations in America 1739

I believe, my fair Mistress, I shall dazle you with the Lustre of your own

The Lady's Looking-Glass, To Dress Herself by: or The Art of Charming 1697

It is further observable, that both fix'd Stars and Planets, the neerer they appear to the Horizon, the more red and dull they look, and the more they are observ'd to twinkle; in so much, that I have seen the Dog-starr to vibrate so strong and bright a radiation of light, as almost to dazle my eyes, and presently, almost to disappear.

Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

Courtiers, corrupt (not without some colour of reason) his libertie, and dazle his judgement.

Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562

I doe nothing without blithnesse; and an over obstinate continuation and plodding contention doth dazle, dul, and wearie the same: my sight is thereby confounded and diminished.

Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562

And if Christ shall set him up a light in this manner, to dazle and torment the Devil at his own home, I will hope they shall not so far degenerate (not all of them) as to come in that Army of Gog and Magog against the Kingdom of Christ, but oe translated thither before the Devil be loosed, if not pres - ently after his tying up.

Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

Let’s start with the stage, with the 92,000-Swarovski-crystal curtain which looked like something that got thrown up straight from Moonstruck-era Cher’s brain - razzle dazle doesn’t begin to describe it.

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