"Bedimmed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... back and told to wrap her treasure in something warm, which she willingly did, under the impression that she was about to be ordered to take him out for a walk, but the tears which still bedimmed her eyes, coupled with agitation, caused her to perform her wonted duty clumsily, and to stick a variety of pins in various unnecessary places. She was then sent to the kitchen with some trivial message to ...
— The Pirate City - An Algerine Tale • R.M. Ballantyne
... [H] now speaking in a voice Of sudden admonition—like a brook [I] That did but cross a lonely road, and now Is seen, heard, felt, and caught at every turn, Companion never lost through many a league—340 Maintained for me a saving intercourse With my true self; for, though bedimmed and changed Much, as it seemed, I was no further changed Than as a clouded and a waning moon: She whispered still that brightness would return, 345 She, in the midst of all, preserved me still A Poet, made me seek beneath ...
— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. III • William Wordsworth
... by the hand as a tear bedimmed his eye. It was, then, the celebrated colonel of the Irish Brigade, created a Marquis by Napoleon on the field ...
— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray
... her eye bedimmed with tear, In pity for the hapless youth, replied: 'Though this land be more cruel and severe Than any other country, far and wide, Each woman is not a Medaea here As thou wouldst make her; and, if all beside Were of such evil kind, in me alone Should an exception ...
— Orlando Furioso • Lodovico Ariosto
... feet tread ever the wet sands And howling rocks along the wearing shore, Roaming the confines of the endless sea! Strain not thine eyes across, bedimmed with tears; No sail comes back across that tender line. Turn thee unto thy work, let God alone; He will do his part. Then across the waves Will float faint whispers from the better land, Veiled in the dust of ...
— A Hidden Life and Other Poems • George MacDonald
... been the stateliest among the stately, but then somewhat bent, without being bowed down, beneath an easy weight of most venerable years. Sweet was her tremulous voice to all her grandchildren's ears. Nor did these solemn eyes, bedimmed into a pathetic beauty, in any degree restrain the glee that sparkled in orbs that had as yet shed not many tears, but tears of joy or pity. Dearly she loved all those mortal creatures whom she was soon about to leave; but she sat in sunshine even within the shadow ...
— Christmas - Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse • Various |
