425 examples of spangled in sentences

That evening she took her usual seat under the broad velvety sky spangled with gold.

On that side the plain spread far away into a dark, unknown region, beneath the star-spangled sky, which on the very horizon showed a ruddy reflection like that of some brasier, the reflection of nocturnal Paris, blazing and smoking in the darkness like a volcano.

"You star-spangled fool!" said Ajax.

In fiction this gentleman would have appeared in the melodramatic guise of a spangled tunic, sugar-loaf hat, with party-coloured ribbons, purple or green breeches, and motley hose; but in the witness-box he was in clerical uniform, a long coat and white cravat with corresponding long face and hair, especially at the back of his head.

The Empress was dressed in an evening gown of rose-coloured tulle, spangled with silver starsan effect which might have seemed meretricious and theatrical in another woman, but which she carried off with great grace and dignity.

Then, with the jazz band playing "Star Spangled Banner," the submarine sank and the homeward journey was begun.

A lovely moon, nearly full, gliding through cloudless blue, spangled here and there with bright twinkling stars.

The North, on its side, will be unable to forget that, by the act of the South, without reason or pretext, the glorious unity of the nation has been broken; that the star-spangled banner has been rent in twain; that the commercial prosperity of America has been shaken at the same time with its greatness.

The moon had already set behind the encircling forest, but the stars that spangled the heavens threw enough light to enable him to make quite sure of what he saw.

smart, gay, trickly^, flowery, glittering; new gilt, new spangled; fine as a Mayday queen, fine as a fivepence^, fine as a carrot fresh scraped; pranked out, bedight^, well-groomed.

At the urgent recommendation of Zachary Taylorthe person who in March next will doubtless mount the presidential chairblood-hounds were purchased as AUXILIARIES to the army, at a cost of five thousand dollars; and blood-hounds and soldiers and officers marched together under the "star-spangled banner" in pursuit of the panting fugitives from Southern oppression.

Poor Rizpah comes to reap each newly-fallen bone That once thrilled soft, a little limb, within her womb; And mark yon alchemist, with zodiac-spangled zone, Wrenching the mandrake root that fattens in the gloom.

"The Star-Spangled Banner.

Now that forerunner disappears, for the desire of all nations has truly come; the green grass is creeping everywhere, and it is spangled with many flowers that came unasked....

"On one side was the naval guard of honoursplendid men from the ships of the Dover Patroland on the other side a military guard from the Garrison with the band of the Buffs waiting to play President Wilson into England with 'The tar-spangled Banner.

As we swing round to our moorings, we pass numerous line-of-battle-ships and frigates bearing the flags of England, France, and Sardinia, but look in vain and with disappointment for the star-spangled banner.

She had stayed in Frederick through the Rebel inroad, and kept the star-spangled banner where it would be safe, to unroll it as the last Rebel hoofs clattered off from the pavement of the town.

It sports in the most charming decorations, carves alabaster facings and cornices on the cliffs, wreathes them in delicate lace, covers them with vast canopies of white satin spangled with stars and fringed with silver.

[Footnote 2: Francis S. Key, an American held prisoner on one of the British ships, composed the words of The Star-Spangled Banner while watching the bombardment.

'Tis her bounty fills the earth With the joys of wine and mirth, Scatters through her broad domain All the blessings of her reign; Seasons roll at her command, Plenty droppeth from her hand; Earth and sea and spangled sky Own her glorious sovereignty, Walking with a stride immense, In her tall magnificence, Mountain heights, where wonders crowd, Pinnacled in solemn cloud.

In his helmet in place of a plume he wore a fox-brush spangled with jewels.

Star-spangled summer.

All along her flanks, fire-jets spangled the night.

Over the light-spangled city the giant air-liner gathered way.

Immediately after this the stirring tones of the "Star-spangled Banner" played on the bugle at San Francisco were sent like lightning back across the continent to salute the old bell in Philadelphia.

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