Unfortunately he insisted on Bedecking them with "mottoes" of his own composition, and over the Manual Training School near my house one reads: "Work is one of our greatest blessings.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
The ladies are Bedecking themselves in their boudoirs.
"Four Arthurian Romances "Erec et Enide", "Cliges", "Yvain", and "Lancelot""
Chretien DeTroyes
Her gown was spare, shewing that means were so, and her cap was the plainest of muslin caps, without lace or Bedecking; yet in the quiet ordering of gown and cap and the neat hair, a quiet and ordered mind was almost confessed; and not many glances at the calm mouth and grave brow and thoughtful eye, would make the opinion good.
"Hills of the Shatemuc"
Susan Warner