"Besotted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... severe was the gale which came down upon the Roebuck, while her captain was besotted and helpless in his berth. Mr. Lincoln did all that a skilful seaman could do, and while the wind and the waves were the only perils against which the schooner had to contend, there was no serious alarm for her safety. The night had come, and the time had passed by when even Captain McClintock ...
— Work and Win - or, Noddy Newman on a Cruise • Oliver Optic
... 'from earlier than I know, Immersed in rich foreshadowings of the world, I loved the woman: he, that doth not, lives A drowning life, besotted in sweet self, Or pines in sad experience worse than death, Or keeps his winged affections clipt with crime: Yet was there one through whom I loved her, one Not learned, save in gracious household ways, Not perfect, nay, but full of tender ...
— The Princess • Alfred Lord Tennyson
... here lady professional will simply goad him to a frenzy. Oh, we had some sad musical week before that concert! That was when this crazy Chink of mine got took by the song. He don't know yet what it means, but it took him all right; he got regular besotted with it, keeping the kitchen door open all the time, so he wouldn't miss a single turn. It took his mind off his work, too. Talk about the Yellow Peril! He got so locoed with that song one day, what does he do but peel and cook up twelve dollars' worth of the Piedmont Queen dahlia bulbs I'd ...
— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... day of our great feast," said Nash, "Aboard the Golden Hynde. The grand old hulk Was drawn up for the citizens' wonderment At Deptford. Ay, Piers Penniless was there! Soaked and besotted as I was, I saw Everything. On her poop the minstrels played, And round her sea-worn keel, like meadow-sweet Curtseying round a lightning-blackened oak, Prentices and their sweethearts, heel and toe, Danced the brave English dances, clean and fresh As May. But in her broad gun-guarded ...
— Collected Poems - Volume Two (of 2) • Alfred Noyes
... murmurs through the comrades ran: Above the rest, were Thestius' sons,—their arms Out-stretching, clamor'd thus with a mighty noise;— "Let not thy beauteous form thy mind deceive, "When from thy eyes the donor of the spoil, "Besotted with thy love, shall far be mov'd. "Woman! restore the prize, nor hope to hold "Our intercepted claims."—Speaking they rob Her of the gift, him of the right to give. Nor passive stood the warlike youth, his teeth He gnash'd with swelling rage, as fierce he cry'd;— "Learn, ...
— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid
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