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Definition of Bedazzles
1. bedazzle [v] - See also: bedazzle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedazzles
Literary usage of Bedazzles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1865)
"... or bedazzles him with showy subtleties. but bluntly says, " John, is this the
sort of thing will suit you? You are neither Frenchman nor Russian:, ..."
2. The Word by Harold Waldwin Percival (1913)
"Desire spreads confusion in the mind, beclouds and bedazzles the mind. The earth
spirit causes the senses, desires and bodily powers to be arrayed in battle ..."
3. Social Psychology: An Outline and Source Book by Edward Alsworth Ross (1908)
"... SUMMARY The possessor of power bedazzles and fascinates. Currents of imitation
radiate from rulers. In monarchies the extravagance of the court spreads ..."
4. The Principles of Sociology by Edward Alsworth Ross (1920)
"The luxurious style of living developed in this class bedazzles many of the able
and ambitious and they exert themselves to live up to extravagant standards ..."
5. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet (1863)
"This spot, so very African, bedazzles you in the daytime with flashings as of steel.
But of a winter morning, especially in December, it seemed full of a ..."
6. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1838)
"Here is a tin-pedler, whose glittering ware bedazzles all beholders, like a
travelling meteor, or opposition sun; and on the other side, a seller of spruce ..."
7. Historical Collections of the Great West: Containing Narratives of the Most by Henry Howe (1857)
"... the detachment of Rogers on the shore of Lake Erie, only tended to conceal a
settled hatred—as the setting sunbeam bedazzles the distant thundercloud. ..."
8. Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1882)
"Here is a tin pedlar, whose glittering ware bedazzles all beholders, like a
travelling meteor or opposition sun ; and on the other side a seller of spruce ..."
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