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
So he returned to his place and sat down, where upon all the handmaidens stood up and the lady bade them perfume him with pastiles and besprinkle his face with rose- water.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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
He shook off the earth with which he had tried to besprinkle himself and scrambled up.
From Secret Bread by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)
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)
