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Definition of Bedabbles
1. bedabble [v] - See also: bedabble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedabbles
Literary usage of Bedabbles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"... and sinkin' deeper into the mire that bedabbles his glorious wings, that shall
require other waters to cleanse them than ever flowed frae Helicon. ..."
2. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead by James George Frazer (1913)
"He has only slit me iia., of one of his ears, nnd the trickling blood bedabbles
his bod)' Meantime with the hoarse cries of the men are mingled uhe weeping ..."
3. Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays by Plutarch, Arthur Richard Shilleto (1888)
"For as a person who is fallen into the mire must either get up out of it or remain
in it, and if he turns about in it, and wallows in it, and bedabbles his ..."
4. Municipal Affairs by Reform Club (New York, N.Y.) (1901)
"... because he thinks it requires that appointment to make it more artistic; he
bedabbles the jutting rock not because he believes that nature is deficient; ..."
5. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1866)
"... and sinkin' deeper into the mire that bedabbles his glorious wings, that shall
require other waters to cleanse them, than ever flowed frae Helicon. ..."
6. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1866)
"... and sinkin' deeper into the mire that bedabbles his glorious wings, that shall
require other waters to cleanse them than ever flowed frae Helicon. ..."
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