" Referring to Tsang Wan, he asked, "What is to be said of this man's discernment?this man with his tortoise-house, with the pillar-heads and posts bedizened with scenes of hill and mere!" Tsz-chang put a question relative to the chief Minister of Tsu, Tsz-wan.

In the streets they saw bedizened officers, from commanders of armies down to presidential orderlies.

There are mules and horses, caparisoned and bedizened; some led by grinning blackamoors, others ridden by showy kings, effulgent in brocade, glittering spurs, and gleaming cuirasses.

The ladies were at once dismayed about Miss Caroline, from Aunt Delia herself, to Marcella Eubanks, who kept conspicuous upon her dressing-table a bedizened motto of the Daughters of Rebecca,"The lips that touch wine shall never touch mine."

But if the painted and bedizened queen anticipated her fate, she determined to die as she had lived,without fear, imperious, and disdainful.

A medium course, which is the best, is observed in the church, and so long as Mr. Firth remains at the place there will be nothing bedizened or foolish in its ceremonies.

"At least I won, eventually, but Fate, in the form of a powdered and bedizened female snatched the proceeds before I got the chance.

Bedizened or burdened, she was either an object of degrading admiration or of cold neglect.

It has been a beautiful day, and the scene was a striking one when he came off in a huge junk like a Roman trireme, towed by six boats, bedizened by any number of triangular flags of all colours.

His wife walks about, at least on high-days, bedizened with jewels: nay, you may see her, even on work-days, hoeing in the cane-piece with heavy silver bangles hanging down over her little brown feet: and what wealth she does not carry on her arms, ankles, neck, and nostril, her husband has in the savings' bank.

She sat summing away on her slate, bedizened out in gauze petticoat, velvet jacketbetween which and the petticoat, of course, the waist showed just as nature had made itgauze veil, bangles, necklace, nose-jewel; for she was a married woman, and her Papa (Anglice, husband) wished her to look her best on so important an occasion.

Picture him in a cocked hat and a uniform bedizened with gold lace, and with a slender sword dangling by his side.

Their very toes are bedizened with brass rings; and long festoons of red, white, and blue beads hang pendent round their necks.

How came she there, thus bedizened?

Groups of women in pale tints and floating veils spoke to each other from terrace to terrace, through the chatter of children and the guttural calls of bedizened negresses.

George, seated on the box with the driver, found much to amuse him; and the driver's merry chat and great admiration of George's new and gaily-bedizened suit, went a great way towards reconciling that young gentleman to his new situation.

The gremios vie in decorating their donation, which is bedizened with ribbons and flowers; across its shoulders are suspended mantles richly embroidered with the arms of the gremio to which it belongs, all of which become the perquisite of the Toreador or Matador who slays the bull.

but the likeness o' the ald beldame, bedizened out in her satins and velvets, on her dead body, simperin', wi' her eyes as wide as saucers, and her face like the fiend himself.

Young men of fashion no longer bedizened themselves in velvet, brocade, and gold lace.

On these narrow and filthy slopes lived the bedizened and dismal prostitutes of the entire maritime city.

Not content with that, they demolished the houses and castles of the nobles; and, what is still more deplorable, they villanously put to death the noble dames and little children who fell into their hands; and afterwards they strutted about, they and their wives, bedizened with the garments they had stripped from their victims.

" "Tell me," retorted Axius, "which is useful, this villa of yours giving on the Campus Martius, more extravagantly arrayed with objects of art than all Reate put together, so bedizened is it with pictures and garnished with statues, or mine where there is no trace of the artists Lysippus or Antiphilus, but there are many of the farm hand and the shepherd?

And thus, mistaking his slab-sidedness for many-sidedness, and forgetting that there is no insight without force to back it,bedizened in conceit and magnificent in littleness,he is thrown on society, walking in a vain show of knowledge, and doomed to be upset and trampled on by the first brawny concrete Fact he stumbles against.

He was, Nymzevitch told me, dreadfully emaciated, but dressed very splendidly in a purple coat all bedizened with silver lace.

But it was a sorry sight to see the poor little body, looking much like a bedizened monkey, so paraded.