Starred

Examples

• The city of Messina, milk-white, and starred and spangled all over with gaslights, was a fairy spectacle. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Try lower down, and pick those that have no thorns, said Amy, gathering three of the tiny cream-colored ones that starred the wall behind her. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Briarfield lights starred the purple skirt of the moor. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The prize crew soon had the vessel under proper sail once more and the living members of the ill-starred company carried below to their hammocks. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He's medalled and ribboned, and starred and crossed, and I don't-know-what all'd, like a born nobleman. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Versailles, under a score of names, is starred in every volume of B?deker, and the tourist gapes in their palaces. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Let me get at him, Pickwick,' cried Wardle, as he rushed at the ill- starred youth. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• And thus the ill-starred girl died a victim to my senseless rashness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Within lay the body, robed in costly habiliments covered with gold embroidery and starred with scintillating gems. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Such a one was the ill-starred Juliet. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Here Miss Lavinia descended on the ill-starred young gentleman with a crushing supposition that at all events it was no business of his. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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