His gentle stewardess looked at him through eyes a trifle bedimmed. "Dear me, sir " she exclaimed, "I thought you said that you were going to stay forever."
And, though he pretended to dislike the sunshine of the upper world, yet the effect of the child's presence, bedimmed as she was by her tears, was as if a faint and watery sunbeam had somehow or other found its way into the enchanted hall.
I have bedimmed The noontide sun, called forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war; to the dread-rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt: the strong-based promontory Have I made shake, and by the spurs plucked up The pine and cedar; graves at my command Have waked their sleepers, ope'd, and let 'em forth By my so potent art.
Those stars, that glide behind them or between, / Now sparkling, now bedimmed, but always seen: / Yon crescent Moon as fixed as if it grew / In its own cloudless, starless lake of blue; / I see them all so excellently fair, / I see, not feel, how beautiful they are!