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

You said, if you pulled your thumb out, you could besprinkle everything.

From Folk Tales Every Child Should Know by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

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

She had still to bring away luggage from Maienthal, to besprinkle her friendships, and once more to set foot in the magic circle of her beloved teacher; and had, therefore, gone off.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul

This same For�t d'Orleans, one of those wild-woods which so plentifully besprinkle France, has a sad and doleful memory in the traditions of the druidical inhabitants of a former day.

From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)