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Definition of Bemuses
1. bemuse [v] - See also: bemuse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bemuses
Literary usage of Bemuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a Journal of an by Heinrich Barth (1896)
"... damsels were all clothed in white woolen bemuses, with their faces completely
veiled, and were closely watched. To-day we had a more complete specimen ..."
2. Studies In Literature by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1918)
"So when a German, cultivating his own bent, bemuses himself with a theory that
Wordsworth (we will say) wrote naturalism, or that naturalism wrote ..."
3. Visits to the Saratoga Battle-grounds, 1780-1880: With an Introduction and Notes by William Leete Stone (1895)
"Captain Wood- worth was also a neighbor of the bemuses, his house, about half a
mile back of theirs, being used by Gen. Gates as headquarters, after he left ..."
4. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"... sorrells, bemuses and girls, whereof some are mine, which I brought into the
world without any pain or help of midwife. ..."
5. The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Prose and Verse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853)
"... take your advice," or, " I shall act on your opinion : for I am sure you are
in the right But as to the fort and bemuses, leave them to me to find out. ..."
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