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  • As we dive beneath the waters to its gem-bestudded floor;

    The Minstrel A Collection of Poems Lennox Amott

  • He smoked innumerable scented cigarettes, gold as to tip and monogram, which he selected with ostentatious unostentation from a heavy gold case liberally bestudded with rubies and diamonds.

    The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

  • He showed me the huge "tambour-carillon," with barrels all bestudded with little brass pegs which pull the wires connected with the great hammers, which in their turn strike the forty-six bells, that unrivaled chime known throughout Flanders as the master work of the Van den Gheyns of

    Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders George Wharton Edwards 1904

  • But meanwhile it was only Tuesday, and he was nearing the battered and nail-bestudded front door of La Sarthe Chase.

    Halcyone Elinor Glyn 1903

  • With this the son of Peleus dashed his gold-bestudded sceptre on the ground and took his seat, while the son of Atreus was beginning fiercely from his place upon the other side.

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

  • Jerusalem might carpenter a cross for Him, but the world would weave its heartfelt devotion into a crown of love for Him, bestudded with the dewy tears of its gratitude, sparkling like diamonds in the light of His face.

    Quiet Talks on John's Gospel 1897

  • With this the son of Peleus dashed his gold-bestudded sceptre on the ground and took his seat, while the son of Atreus was beginning fiercely from his place upon the other side.

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

  • It is semi-circular in form and bestudded with islands; while on its western shore rise mountains of no ordinary attractions, among them Owl's

    Canadian Wild Flowers 1848

  • Torch-bearers and heralds would lead them by the tufts of yellow iris down the winding path to the cave, outside which an altar stood, and the great Saronia waited, with head thrown back and hands outspread towards the ground; her raven hair flowed down and lay in waves on folds of costly yellow silk bestudded with stars; her face was calm as death, rigid as a marble statue; emotion showed no place in that mysterious being.

    Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus Richard Short

  • Did she give thee a ride o 'her velvet pillion, bestudded with gold? "

    For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary Emily Sarah Holt 1864

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