besprinkle
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I will scatter seeds criminally thickly on the surface, pat them down, and then remember that they need cover and besprinkle them with some soil that I’ve inevitably dropped on the kitchen floor.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 23, 2019
To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
Suddenly the belligerents drew blades on the very stage itself, and, while the bystanders were expecting to see poetical or vocal blood besprinkle the harpsichords and double basses, the Signora Tesi advanced toward the duelists.
From Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag by George T. (George Titus) Ferris
Linda Pallant, young as she was, and fresh and fair and charming, gentle and sufficiently shy, looked somehow exclusive—as if the dust of the common world had never been meant to besprinkle her.
From Louisa Pallant by Henry James
He pretended to be angry, and asked her, with a frown, how she could dare to besprinkle her sovereign; she replied—"When children play together there is no distinction between the prince and the peasant."
From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by William Sleeman
So he fires away 264 pages of verbosity, besprinkled with large capitals, cryptic exhortations, capital I's.
From Time Magazine Archive
They came close to the little Peppers, so that the stiff black silk coat, now plentifully besprinkled with mud, brushed them as it passed.
From Ben Pepper by Margaret Sidney
Chattering and laughing, they march up the middle of the street, warm and rosy-cheeked after their labours, besprinkled with fish scales up to the eyes.
From Skipper Worse by Alexander Lange Kielland
Perhaps it was as a precautionary measure that the Buccaneer besprinkled himself, as it were, with holy water, before entering upon his everyday life.
From The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Richard Clynton
After we had shaken hands with them they hung garlands of flowers round our necks, thrust small bouquets on us and liberally besprinkled us with scent.
From Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly
One of the elders, using a knife of quartz, made incisions in the young man’s body, afterwards besprinkling them with urine.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
Having once passed it in, I find 'You that leap besprinkling the rock stream-rent,' with its delicate labial pause and its delicate consonantal chime, one of the most fascinating lines in the stanza.
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Before, the boy never bothered the sailors in this playful and light work; nay, he took an active part, besprinkling them with water and laughingly running away, when they threatened to pour water over him.
From The Man Who Was Afraid by Herman Bernstein
Gurnemanz obeys, besprinkling him with a baptismal intention.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell
See! how the morning dews They sweep, that from their feet besprinkling drop Dispersed, and leave a track oblique behind.
