It is a great weakness to want to bedeck oneself in qualities which are not his own. From LearnThat.org. [Magdeleine Sable, Source: Maxims and Various Thoughts (Maximes et pensées diverses) 1678]
A saddle all craft-bedeck'd, seemly with treasure. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Posters of Clinton and Jiang, in heroic poses, bedeck city streets. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond History's Shadow] Reference
French and Belgian Allies, and two rows of medals bedeck her khaki jacket. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Goes to War] Reference
I will bedeck my feet in sandals and adorn my right ankle with a bracelet. From Wordnik.com. [haloaskew Diary Entry] Reference
Jewels bedeck her frilly neckline, and the palace built for her is enormous. From Wordnik.com. [Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat] Reference
Funny, but too bad they didn't bedeck it with ornaments and tinsel before launch. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
In other lands, people bedeck themselves with scars, lip plugs or bright feathers. From Wordnik.com. [The Biology Of Beauty] Reference
Trulls who drench themselves in perfumes and bedeck themselves in gold like princesses!. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Magnificent]
He did not need Tresham coming here to bedeck the poor woman with icicles at a single glance. From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Mistress]
Indeed it is the other way, for the accessories required to bedeck the person will cost at least £25. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
The wives and maidens of the village gather and scatter flowers, and bedeck themselves from head to foot. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 403, December 5, 1829] Reference
Besides, there were none of the other medievaloid trappings that the SCAdians tended to bedeck their vehicles with. From Wordnik.com. [Music To My Sorrow]
Invariably a few spotlight-hungry imposters will bedeck themselves with awards they did not earn, position themselves to be. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes or Villains?] Reference
The Spoil of nations shall bedeck my bride slumbring. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3] Reference
Kinsmen brave and car-borne chieftains will bedeck the gory plain!. From Wordnik.com. [Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse] Reference
Was it thou didst bedeck them with colours and a flickering outline?. From Wordnik.com. [Rampolli] Reference
We dress up, eat too much candy and bedeck our homes, cubicles and any other. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Maryland pumpkin farms yield a smaller crop] Reference
There were no lack of pretty dresses now for Florence Aylmer to bedeck herself in. From Wordnik.com. [A Bunch of Cherries A Story of Cherry Court School] Reference
Flowers and berries bedeck the surrounding shrubbery, pleasant perfumes fill the air. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood] Reference
As to conservative ones, eyeglasses are only a bedeck instead of the major in making up. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
Advantage was taken of these presents to bedeck the child in every variety of smartness. From Wordnik.com. [Fasting Girls Their Physiology and Pathology] Reference
Cousin Egbert rubbed his hands and giggled, waiting for me to bedeck him with floral tributes. From Wordnik.com. [Somewhere in Red Gap] Reference
A very curious manifestation of this disposition to bedeck the body was the prevalence of tattooing. From Wordnik.com. [From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life] Reference
His drab had not taken his invitation to bedeck herself too literally, nor had she ventured into Broadway. From Wordnik.com. [Sleeping Fires: a Novel] Reference
No less than thirty-five islands, like beauty spots of a fairy "drop scene," bedeck the silver sheen of its surface. From Wordnik.com. [The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway] Reference
It was Christmas-eve, and her own fair hands had helped to bedeck the rooms with festal garlands of evergreen and holly. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of Prey] Reference
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