Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedwarfed
Literary usage of Bedwarfed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1845)
"... and bedwarfed and bedeviled as any of them. Great Writers, whether in poetry
or prose, will enunciate their thoughts in appropriate and expressive words ..."
2. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"279, 6) and were apparently very much bedwarfed from some ancestral form, but
not so much so as in the modern type in which the leaves have almost ..."
3. Studies in German Literature in the Nineteenth Century by John Firman Coar (1903)
"... morgues, and lightning rods is seen only afar off lying there like bedwarfed
gardens of children. The second consists in falling down straight into the ..."
4. The American Pulpit: Sketches, Biographical and Descriptive, of Living by Henry Fowler (1856)
"A sickly and bedwarfed Christianity here will not furnish the requisite laborers,
or the needful funds. Expansion without solidity will bring upon our Zion ..."
5. The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life by John Donne (1839)
"... 'Tis shrinking, not close weaving, that hath thus, In mind and body both
bedwarfed us. We seem ambitious, God's whole work to undo ; Of nothing he made ..."
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