Verb (used with object), : grass bespangled with dewdrops; poetry bespangled with vivid imagery. From Dictionary.com.
It exists in, and influences every atom, whose combinations compose and constitute the entire material creation, or each and every orb that bespangle the blue infinity. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
The fixed stars which enamel and bespangle the concave expanse, or canopy of heaven, by numbers and lustre, make the night beauteous and delightful, which would otherwise be dark and horrible. From Wordnik.com. [A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses] Reference
Just enough light for the dullest colors, the faintest reflections to produce an admirable effect, from the reddish-gray tone of the monuments to the gleams of jet which bespangle a woman's dress. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I always reside in conveyances and the animals that drag them, in maidens, in ornaments and good vestments, in sacrifices, in clouds charged with rain, in full-blown lotuses, and in those stars that bespangle the autumnal firmament. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
The clouds bespangle with bright gold their blue: 45. From Wordnik.com. [Invocation] Reference
The stars, which to the number of several millions bespangle the sky, are not scattered uniformly. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Heavens] Reference
Let them give up their unspeakably silly ambition to bespangle their lists of officers with these doctorial titles. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Studies] Reference
All the stars also which bespangle the firmament and cast a glimmering to earth, will disappear from their accustomed place. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Go out in the evening and see the dew gather drop by drop upon the grass, or trace the delicate hoar-frost crystals which bespangle every blade on a winter's morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Fairy-Land of Science] Reference
Those orbs, seemingly countless -- which bespangle the dark robe of night -- have a charm and beauty of their own apart from the significance with which the science of astronomy has invested them. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Marvels of Astronomy] Reference
For if the dead appear to the living mainly in the hours of darkness, it seems not unnatural to imagine that the bright points of light which then bespangle the canopy of heaven are either the souls of the departed or fires kindled by them in their home aloft. From Wordnik.com. [The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia] Reference
D. 's, bespangle the page as if they were sprinkled over it from a pepper caster. ". From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Studies] Reference
And countless stars bespangle heav'n. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
Her plains, as stars the sky, bespangle. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
When I gaze on the STARS that bespangle the sky. From Wordnik.com. [Poems, by Mrs. M. Robinson] Reference
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