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 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 Dodd, Anna Bowman

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 Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie)

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 Sleeman, William

The novel goes on apace; but I shall besprinkle it with local color afterwards.

From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by McKenzie, Aimée G. Leffingwel