Citations:bedinner
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English citations of bedinner
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 4, chapter VI, The Landed
- Does he find, with his three hundred thousand pounds, no noble thing trodden down in the thoroughfares, which it were godlike to help up? Can he do nothing for his Burns but make a Gauger of him; lionise him, bedinner him, for a foolish while; then whistle him down the wind, to desperation and bitter death?