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Definition of Bepelted
1. bepelt [v] - See also: bepelt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bepelted
Literary usage of Bepelted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shakespearean Playhouses: A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings by Joseph Quincy Adams (1917)
"... in their ireful wraths, bepelted me with lome, with stones, with laths.
One madly sits like bottle-ale and hisses; Another throws a stone, and 'cause he ..."
2. Early London Theatres: In the Fields by Thomas Fairman Ordish (1894)
"... wraths bepelted me with Lome, with Stones, and Laths, One madly sits like
bottle-Ale, and hisses, ..."
3. A Wonder-book for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1898)
"And then, to punish Cousin Eustace for advising them to dig such a tumble-down
cavern, the children attacked him in a body, and so bepelted him with ..."
4. A Wonder-book: Tanglewood Tales, and Grandfather's Chair by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1883)
"And then, to punish Cousin Eustace for advising them to dig such a tumble-down
cavern, the children attacked him in a body, and so bepelted him with ..."
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