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

V. be variegated &c. adj.; variegate, stripe, streak, checker, chequer; bespeckle†, speckle; besprinkle, sprinkle; stipple, maculate, dot, bespot†; tattoo, inlay, damascene; embroider, braid, quilt.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

It is equally unpleasant as "little woman" or "dearie," both of which besprinkle all his sentences.

From The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel by Glyn, Elinor

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)

Love, like men, dies oftener of excess than of hunger; it lives on love, but it resembles those Alpine flowers, which feed themselves by suction from the wet clouds, and die if you besprinkle them.—

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas