No Martialist would dream of poisoning his blood and besotting his brain with alcohol in any form.

" "She is perhaps some witch whose magic is more terrible than their magic, and has besotted this ruined champion?"

you besotted fool, you are playing into their hands!" "Besotted fool in your teeth, Sir Giles.

Now she was nineteen, and it would not be possible to enumerate the young Lords and Princes whose hearts she had besotted, whose thoughts she had set in a turmoil, whose family treasures she had swallowed without compunction.

One more attempt at reform was to be made, this time by one of the Senate's own members, but only to be once more defeated by rancorous party-spirit and besotted urban pride.

You are all besotted hag-riddendrunkards sitting in the stocks, and bowing down to the said stocks, and making a god thereof.

For such a Fouché a slighter clue would have sufficed to lead to the conviction of so besotted a traitor, than many an incautious hint of his, and many a tale-telling vaunt of his irresistible egotism, afforded her; for, like all the weak wretches of his sort, there was not a more bungling lout, to try the patience of a clever man, than Philip Withers, when his game lay between his safety and his vanity.