Sentence examples for bedight from inspiring English sources

My fifth-grade English teacher had us memorize Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "Eldorado," daily chanting in sing-song: Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado.

_My fifth-grade English teacher had us memorize Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "Eldorado," daily chanting in sing-song: Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado.

Or unless Mom and Dad are Anglophiles, given to serving a suet pudding at Christmas dinner -- "like a speckled cannonball, so hard and firm," as Dickens described it, "blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top".

The consistency would indeed have been porridge-like, an attribute it had quite lost by the time Dickens's Mrs. Cratchit produced hers looking "like a speckled cannonball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half of a quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck in the top".