Spangled

Examples

• Why were we ever told to bring navy revolvers with us if we had to be protected at last by this infamous star-spangled scum of the desert? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The city of Messina, milk-white, and starred and spangled all over with gaslights, was a fairy spectacle. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• When I came into the box, the orchestra played the 'Star-Spangled Banner,' and all the people in the house arose; whereupon I was very much embarrassed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• From his neck to his knees, in ample folds, a robe swept down that was a very star-spangled banner of curved and sinuous bars of black and white. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Yes, I said; his life is motley and manifold and an epitome of the lives of many;--he answers to the State which we described as fair and spangled. Plato. The Republic.
• Nearby was a large, handsome house with its ample front illuminated in the same way, and above its roof floated the Star-Spangled Banner of America. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This, then, seems likely to be the fairest of States, being like an embroidered robe which is spangled with every sort of flower. Plato. The Republic.

Inputed by Ethel