Crossword-Solution: BEDECKING 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

While this dirge was sung, in a low and melancholy tone, by the female choristers, the others were divided into two bands, of which one was engaged in bedecking, with such embroidery as their skill and taste could compass, a large silken pall, destined to cover the bier of Athelstane, while the others busied themselves in selecting, from baskets of flowers placed before them, garlands, which they intended for the same mournful purpose.

God bless my ladies! Are they all in love, That every one her own hath garnished With such bedecking ornaments of praise? LORD.

Then came the students from Brill, all in full dress, and led by William Philander Tubbs, bedecked as only that dudish student would think of bedecking himself.

She could see herself, now--the motherless babe whom Aunt Rachel and Mammy had never let feel her orphanage--sitting on the door-step, bedecking her doll with the odorous pink-and-white blossoms in summer time, and in autumn with the light-red berries.

There lay the hulk, all nuptial in colours, her roof looking like a _plaza_ of Lima or La Paz at Carnival, flags in mountain-ridges round her edges, flags in festoons, in slanting clothes-lines, in trophy-groups, on bandroled poles, bedecking her; some scaffolding still round her; and three running derricks, capable of wielding guns and boilers of 140 tons, craned their shears about her.