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  • Eugenia at her marriage; and you know as well as I do what a ninny he is for his pains; for what a poor little dowdy thing will she look, dizened out in jewels and laces? '

    Camilla 2008

  • Sir Hugh, surveying her with a look of surprise and vexation, exclaimed: 'What my dear! an't you dizened yet? why I thought to have seen you in all your best things!'

    Camilla 2008

  • This, and not amusement, would have profited those high-dizened persons.

    The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

  • An hour's amusement, not amusing either, but wearisome and dreary, to a high-dizened select populace of male and female persons, who seemed to me not worth much amusing!

    The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

  • Could any one have pealed into their hearts once, one true thought, and glimse of Self-vision: 'High-dizened most expensive persons, Aristocracy so called, or _Best_ of the

    The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

  • If he walked out with his bull-terrier, it was generally to Bagley Wood, where a pretty, dizened gipsy girl named Selina told fortunes; and henceforward he took a keen interest in Selina's race.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

  • His mottled livery was grass-stained and earth-stained, and he had dizened it with a kind of woodland finery.

    The Proud Prince 1898

  • If he walked out with his bull-terrier, it was generally to Bagley Wood, where a pretty, dizened gipsy girl named

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

  • Processions enough walk in jubilee; of Young Women, decked and dizened, their ribands all tricolor; moving with song and tabor, to the Shrine of Sainte Genevieve, to thank her that the Bastille is down.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • He will surround your Garden with new edifices and piazzas: though narrowed, it shall be replanted; dizened with hydraulic jets, cannon which the sun fires at noon; things bodily, things spiritual, such as man has not imagined; -- and in the Palais-Royal shall again, and more than ever, be the Sorcerer's Sabbath and Satan-at-Home of our Planet.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

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  • from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution

    March 6, 2011