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

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 James, Henry

I. "By the Urdar fount dwelling, Day by day from the rill, The Nornas besprinkle The Ash Ygg-drasill."

From Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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)