“Pore lamb!” with which she beplastered Polly, and the antiquated reckoning-table she embarrassed them by consulting. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
The chieftain laid in uniforms of his own designing, and strolled about the Grande Rue de Péra, gaudy in a Turkish military fez, white ducks and gloves, and a blue coat beplastered with gold lace. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference
Come, now, isn't it something worth living for to have one's coat and hat taken by one of this knot of magnificent crimson-velvet-coated, gold-beplastered, silken-calved beings who are ranged along the sides of the vestibule?. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
In 1867 the old brick arch was beplastered, obliterating a reminiscence of Dickens, who makes. From Wordnik.com. [Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London] Reference
He pelted straight on in his socks, beplastered with filth out of all semblance to a human being. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Jim] Reference
It is a stately old Jacobean mansion, though sadly beplastered, for surely its natural colour is red-brick, like that of the outbuildings. From Wordnik.com. [Two Suffolk Friends] Reference
He was panting and beplastered with tallow, but the inner man was evidently quite unruffled, and Elsmere liked the shrewd Scotch face and gray eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
They were all bepraised and beplastered -- exalted and debased -- acquitted and condemned; but it was generally allowed on all hands, that the printed. From Wordnik.com. [Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)] Reference
Clay man himself, arrived at one of these functions with the astounding information that Willits had called on Miss Seymour, wearing his hat in her presence to conceal his much-beplastered head. From Wordnik.com. [Kennedy Square] Reference
He came into Little O'Grady's dirty and disorderly place, and O'Grady, even before he could scramble forward through his ruck of dusty casts and beplastered scantlings, saw that the blow had fallen. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Skylights] Reference
And for any one who with Wordsworth's exquisite sonnet on King's College Chapel in his mind has the misfortune to enter that long tunnel, beplastered with false ornament, the disillusion is unforgettable. From Wordnik.com. [Impressions and Comments] Reference
Lakes and ponds were frozen, rivulets sealed up, torrents encased with stalactites of ice; the black rocks and the black trunks of the pine-trees were beplastered with snow, and its heavy masses crushed the dull green boughs into the drifts beneath. From Wordnik.com. [The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
Guided by the frightened squaws, they crossed the Mohawk on the ice, toiling through the drifts amid the whirling snow that swept down the valley of the darkened stream, till about eleven o'clock they descried through the storm the snow-beplastered palisades of the devoted village. From Wordnik.com. [Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV] Reference
With all the seriousness naturally to be elicited by a responsible mission, I mounted Chaos, and started at a speed that beplastered the skeleton houses on each side of the way with mud, heaving a delectable morsel, as I passed the "doggery," full in the mouth of a picayune demagogue, who, viewing the political sky with open mouth, was vociferating vehemently on the merits of his side. From Wordnik.com. [Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor"] Reference
But he does not seem to have enjoyed the theater much in Paris, a city for which he conceived at once the greatest dislike, he says, "on account of the squalor and barbarity of the buildings, the absurd and pitiful pomp of the few houses that affected to be palaces, the filthiness and gothicism of the churches, the vandalic structure of the theaters of that time, and the many and many and many disagreeable objects that all day fell under my notice, and worst of all the unspeakably misshapen and beplastered faces of those ugliest of women.". From Wordnik.com. [Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions] Reference
And yet I hoped through my diligence to make as suitable a provision for her as any of the beplastered wind-bags. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Goethe] Reference
And beplastered with rouge his own natural red. From Wordnik.com. [Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series] Reference
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