Hopefully they will not bedizen themselves for the formal dinner tomorrow. From LearnThat.org.
We, whose fathers at least were Christians, who have grown up under those mediaeval arches even if we bedizen them with all the demons in. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
And Lily went up to her dressing-room; she wanted to look her best, to bedizen herself ... a little red on her lips, a little blue on her eyelids. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
I wasn't sure quite why I had resisted the array of baubles with which she had tried to further bedizen me; perhaps it was mere dislike of fussiness. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
It was the aid of Russia which enabled her to overthrow the great Napoleon, and now she permits the little Napoleon to bully her into a war with Russia that he may bedizen his name with the glory of a conflict with the conqueror of his illustrious kinsman. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864] Reference
Thou art in mourning now, as well as I: but if ever thy ridiculous turn lead thee again to be beau-brocade, I will bedizen thee, as the girls say, on my return, to my own fancy, and according to thy own natural appearance — Thou shalt doctor my soul, and I will doctor thy body: thou shalt see what a clever fellow I will make of thee. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Are ye not shamed so to bedizen yourselves like she-devils?. From Wordnik.com. [The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche 1909] Reference
The band buses to Baraboo but gets bedizen by boyish buffoonery. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
The meaning of this word (= to bedizen with tawdry finery) is plain. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II] Reference
I don't know what sort of a way you'd bedizen yourself out if I'd let you, I'm sure. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908] Reference
They bedizen themselves with finery and flaunt through the streets in velvets and satins. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of the Great Elector] Reference
I must, therefore, hasten to bedizen my person, though my mind will remain in dishabille. From Wordnik.com. [Vicissitudes in Genteel Life] Reference
I will so bedizen your virile, though somewhat crassly practical gifts ---- Why, women are my long suit. From Wordnik.com. [Free Air] Reference
Prithee, young one, who art thou, and what has ailed thy mother to bedizen thee in this strange fashion?. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Letter] Reference
Fate in derision had made each youth bedizen his animal with a checkered enamelled leather brow-band visible half a mile away -- a black-and-white checkered brow-band!. From Wordnik.com. [American Notes] Reference
He deplores himself, he distrusts himself, he plainly wishes heartily that he was not himself, but he never makes the slightest attempt to disguise and bedizen himself. From Wordnik.com. [Prejudices : first series,] Reference
If it be right to bedizen verses with metaphors and similes which have no reference, either in tone or in subject, to the matter in hand, let there be as many of them as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Reviews] Reference
Let's just be patient a little -- very likely I can sell a few bits of land before long that will give us some money in hand -- and then this small person shall bedizen herself and the house as much as she pleases. From Wordnik.com. [Sir George Tressady — Volume I] Reference
The difference between the one and the others was accentuated even in dress, for, while the swashbucklers at the table loved to bedizen themselves with an amount of ferocious finery, and showed in their sordid garments a quantity of color that likened them to. From Wordnik.com. [The Duke's Motto A Melodrama] Reference
There he inspired that profound reverence of which he was so proud, and which induced the matrons of the village, when he was coming to make a visit, to bedizen the children in their Sunday suits, to parade the best teapot, and to offer the most capacious chair. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and Social Essays] Reference
Thus a Frenchman, viewing the undraped statues which bedizen his native galleries of art, either enjoys them in a purely aesthetic fashion -- which is seldom possible save when he is in liquor -- or confesses frankly that he doesn't like them at all; whereas the visiting Americano is so powerfully shocked and fascinated by them that one finds him, the same evening, in places where no respectable man ought to go. From Wordnik.com. [Damn! A Book of Calumny] Reference
"meteoroepeia," called "poetic diction," now happily becoming extinct, mainly, we believe, under the influence of Burns, although he himself thought it his duty to bedizen his verses therewith, and though it was destined to flourish for many a year more in the temple of the father of lies, like a jar of paper flowers on a Popish altar. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and General Lectures and Essays] Reference
This evening she was happy at least in the thought that all these women whom she barely knew would see in her company a man who was one of their own set, the young Marquis de Beausergent, Mme. d’Argencourt’s brother, who moved impartially in both worlds and with whom the women of the second were greatly delighted to bedizen themselves before the eyes of those of the first. From Wordnik.com. [The Guermantes Way] Reference
Jeanie begin to arrange her hair, place her bonnet in order, rub the dust from her shoes and clothes, adjust her neck-handkerchief and mittans, and so forth, than with imitative zeal she began to bedizen and trick herself out with shreds and remnants of beggarly finery, which she took out of a little bundle, and which, when disposed around her person, made her appearance ten times more fantastic and apish than it had been before. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
Lords, ladies, like clouds which bedizen. From Wordnik.com. [Dramatic Romances] Reference
Ye cits that sore bedizen nature's face. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
Ye cits, that sore bedizen nature's face!. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
No star-bedizend thing!. From Wordnik.com. [The Working Man's Song] Reference
A lake, was agitated and driven about at random by each fresh impulse, no sooner beheld Jeanie begin to arrange her hair, place her bonnet in order, rub the dust from her shoes and clothes, adjust her neck-handkerchief and mittans, and so forth, than with imitative zeal she began to bedizen and trick herself out with shreds and remnants of beggarly finery, which she took out of a little bundle, and which, when disposed around her person, made her appearance ten times more fantastic and apish than it had been before. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
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