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  • verb Present participle of bedew.

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Examples

  • Then the sniff became a baritone groan, and when I looked, so help me it was Custer himself, with his hand to his brow, bedewing his britches with manly tears.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • She clung to me, bedewing my shirt, and raised her face to mine.

    Watershed 2010

  • She lay there, keening away, bedewing my manly bosom with her tears.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • How now, lady, why hast thou arrayed thee in sable weeds instead of white raiment, and from thy fair head hast shorn thy tresses with the steel, bedewing thy cheeks the while with tears but lately shed?

    Helen 2008

  • How now, lady, why hast thou arrayed thee in sable weeds instead of white raiment, and from thy fair head hast shorn thy tresses with the steel, bedewing thy cheeks the while with tears but lately shed?

    Helen 2008

  • No loitering then, soon as they heard that call; and many a warrior fell with bloody crown, and not a few of us thou couldst have seen thrown to the earth like tumblers before the walls, after they had given up the ghost, bedewing the thirsty ground with streams of gore.

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • No loitering then, soon as they heard that call; and many a warrior fell with bloody crown, and not a few of us thou couldst have seen thrown to the earth like tumblers before the walls, after they had given up the ghost, bedewing the thirsty ground with streams of gore.

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • On the day they are ordered out to battle, your soldiers may weep, those sitting up bedewing their garments, and those lying down letting the tears run down their cheeks.

    Sun Tzu: The Art of War: Part 4 2007

  • On the day they are ordered out to battle, your soldiers may weep, those sitting up bedewing their garments, and those lying down letting the tears run down their cheeks.

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • I could not see this amiable criminal, so suddenly the first object of my love, and as suddenly of my just hate, on his knees, bedewing my hand with his tears, without relenting.

    Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure 2004

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