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bestrewn



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Some he depicted as he saw them, bestrewn with marble stumps and fallen capitals.

From New York Times Feb. 15, 2017

What had set me off on this track, a track that became narrower and narrower and finally petered out in a field bestrewn with burdocks and cow pats?

From The Guardian Jun. 22, 2013

The way is desert and bestrewn with mountains; and the pest of mosquitoes is suffered, as well as the extreme heat.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Various

Then, robed in white and bestrewn with flowers, they were placed on the biers in the marble atriun.

From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by Withrow, William Henry

He would smile grimly as with dogged persistence he started this latest child of his fancy out along the trail so thickly bestrewn with the skeletons of elder offspring.

From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.




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