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Definition of Bedarkens
1. bedarken [v] - See also: bedarken
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedarkens
Literary usage of Bedarkens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1921)
"His visage bedarkens the houses, the duplicate houses that go Straggling away
from the river surlily, row after row. He frowns into alleys and doorways, ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1884)
"Oh, welcome then, ye playful ways, And sunshine of the early days, And banish to
the clouds above Dull reason, that bedarkens love ! " RD BLACKMORE. ..."
3. The Christian Examiner (1836)
"Bedarkens and confounds the mind of man. Human intelligence on murders bent
Becomes a midnight fumbler ; human will Of God abandoned, in its web of snares ..."
4. The Humbler Poets: A Collection of Newspaper and Periodical Verse, 1870 to 1885 by Slason Thompson (1899)
"Oh, welcome then, ye playful ways, And sunshine of the early days ; And banish
to the clouds above Dull reason, that bedarkens love ! " Blackwood. ..."
5. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1915)
"It is as true now as it ever was, that "guilt bedarkens and confounds the mind
of man,"—that "human will, of God abandoned, in its web of snares strangles ..."
6. Philip Van Artevelde: A Dramatic Romance, in Two Parts by Henry Taylor (1876)
"... As shall constrain you to pronounce that guilt Bedarkens and confounds the
mind of man ; Human intelligence on murders bent Becomes a midnight fumbler; ..."
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