1854, Thomas Lake Harris, An Epic of the Starry Heaven, OCLC20509755:
So Seers on the Earth, through shaded eyes / Befilmed with sense, have seen dense shadows rise, […]
1892, Thomas John Hardy, Asdrufel: A Soul's Episode, OCLC317947885:
And oft without upon the stretching plain, / All else befilm’d with vapours and black night […]
1894, Joseph Herman Hertz, The Ethical System of James Martineau, OCLC187483699:
The first relativity spoken of, which makes our ideal of character (that very same which reverence surrounds with such sacredness) to be but a bespecked and befilmed third-hand copy of the eternal rights […]