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
The waves break on these huge masses without intermission, with a hollow and alternating roar, or rise up in sheets of foam, which besprinkle their hoary fronts.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
It is equally unpleasant as "little woman" or "dearie," both of which besprinkle all his sentences.
From The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel by Elinor Glyn
To besprinkle the walking Englishmen as they came within range with a shower of circulars announcing that at "midi, chez Nigaud, il y aura un dejeuner chaud."
From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd
My God, my Mercy, with how much gall didst Thou out of Thy great goodness besprinkle for me that sweetness?
From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey
So he fires away 264 pages of verbosity, besprinkled with large capitals, cryptic exhortations, capital I's.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Goddess of Liberty is ideally a creature of beautiful form, but really her face is scarred and worn, her figure gnarled and warped with time, and her garments besprinkled with blood.
From History of Human Society by Frank W. (Frank Wilson) Blackmar
It was followed by a whole lamb fried in oil, stuffed with pounded pistachio nuts, pepper, nutmeg, and coriander seeds, and liberally besprinkled with rose-water and musk.
From The Brass Bottle by F. Anstey
This bird-cherry grew not as a bush, but as a tree, about six inches in diameter and thirty feet high, full of branches and bushy, and all besprinkled with bright, white, fragrant blossoms.
From Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Leo Tolstoy, Count
He removed his wide slouched hat as he entered, and his long cloak, which was besprinkled with snow-flakes, fell from his shoulders, revealing a much-worn and faded doublet with tarnished braid and ominous stains.
From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Robert Leighton
Gurnemanz obeys, besprinkling him with a baptismal intention.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell
You that build the shade-roof, and you that court the rays, You that leap besprinkling the rock stream-rent: He has been our fellow, the morning of our days!
From Poems — Volume 2 by George Meredith
At intervals the sedulous attendants went to and fro, besprinkling their heads with the scented contents of their vases.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
Here are the headquarters of a large division of British troops, the red coats besprinkling every street and roadway.
From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou
There were several spots upon the white linen shirt, besprinkling the plaits upon the bosom, and others upon the sleeves; also the cheeks of the youth showed a drop or two on their pallid ground.
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid
