So bright bedecked with gold, and their great shields. From Wordnik.com. [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference
Gilded chariots and ivory-bedecked litters passed to and fro. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference
Cinderella's rags are changed to wonderful clothing bedecked with costly jewels. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
Three orphaned young men are groomed to become a bungee-jumping, fedora-bedecked SWAT team. From Wordnik.com. [What's New, Copycat?] Reference
Above, high over her head, a creeping rosebush grows, bedecked with palest, juiciest leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
His long thin white hands were bedecked with handsome antique rings, art treasures in their way. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
And, running after the trunk, magnificently bedecked, in a hat all feathers and gold tassels, who?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
At the head marched a girl bearing an icon of the Madonna, gaudily painted and bedecked with jewels. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
Spray have signed the pec-bedecked Italian to do his first national TV campaign, debuting next week. From Wordnik.com. [Fabiolicious!] Reference
The singer steps before her flower-bedecked window, and sings her beauties in the name of her lover. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
The heads and figures of the ladies of the court were for the most part fearfully and wonderfully bedecked. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
The Vietcong and the North Vietnamese embassies are bedecked in flags and having understandable celebrations. From Wordnik.com. [Where a Future President Learned About the World] Reference
Outside popular hotels in towns and cities frequented by tourists, bedecked elephants still give visitors a ride. From Wordnik.com. [India Adds Elephant to List of National Heritage Animals] Reference
All bedecked with light and all ablaze with color, the Cooper Union was fast filling up with the friends of Reform. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
Guests dressed in the blue shirts of the former Communist Youth Organization cavort in halls bedecked with GDR flags. From Wordnik.com. [Hello, Lenin!] Reference
Quiet, serene, she stands, her brow bedecked with olive leaves; her serpent bordered robe may betoken the wisdom of peace. From Wordnik.com. [Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts] Reference
D.D. It is more than likely that the majority of the congregation of this over-bedecked preacher can neither read nor write. From Wordnik.com. [From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington] Reference
Franzen's sweeping novel of the American domestic scene arrives bedecked with praise from Don DeLillo and David Foster Wallace. From Wordnik.com. [The Art Of Autumn] Reference
The China Club, elegantly bedecked with modern Chinese art, caters more to Berlin's establishment than its emerging creative class. From Wordnik.com. [Berlin Broods Over a Glitz Invasion] Reference
Deion Sanders's jewel-bedecked persona made him an original crossover figure, and even now that he's a preacher he's still high-style. From Wordnik.com. [A Season Of Shame] Reference
When Spanish conquistadors first arrived in the islands, they noted that the natives were bedecked in gold ornaments from head to foot. From Wordnik.com. [Going for the Gold] Reference
The headquarter street we found swept and garnished, the flagstaff bedecked with holly, and a regimental band playing 'Home, Sweet Home.'. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
The thickly dotting cypresses and junipers, bedecked with streaming draperies of Spanish moss, touched the vistas with a funereal aspect. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
The floor was covered with a thick red and black rug, the walls decorated with frescoes of angels and saints lavishly bedecked with gold leaf. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
The button-bedecked members of the Michigan Education Association -- the state's largest teachers union -- do seem thrilled about Granholm's visit. From Wordnik.com. [Racial Politics] Reference
For three days he contentedly sucked in his slush surroundings, and, in that time, the two outer dots bedecked themselves with rings of burnished copper. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
No person is so poor that he cannot, on this great festal day, have his house, shop, place of amusement or, at least, umbrella bedecked with these delicate blossoms. From Wordnik.com. [An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China] Reference
Upon the walls hung a few pictures of female saints, bedecked with garlands of flowers, which showed them to be objects of devotion and respect in the eyes of the possessor. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
Now and then women passed, but they, also, were of the night, gaudily bedecked in tinsel and glittering finery that would have been fustian by day to the least discriminating eye. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
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