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Definition of Bespangling
1. bespangle [v] - See also: bespangle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bespangling
Literary usage of Bespangling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"Returning from a ramble over the hills round Dulwich, he said he had seen a tree
filled with angels, bright wings bespangling every bough like stars ; or, ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1870)
"“Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see The dew bespangling herb and tree: Each flower
has wept, and bowed toward the east Above an hour since, ..."
3. The Golden Treasury: Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the by Francis Turner Palgrave (1916)
"... sweet Slug-a-bed, and see The dew bespangling herb and tree. Each flower has
wept, and bow'd toward the east, Above an hour since ; yet you not drest, ..."
4. The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1906)
"See how Aurora throws her fair Fresh-quilted colours through the air: Get up,
sweet slug-a-bed, and see The dew bespangling herb and tree! ..."
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