besprinkle

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

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

From The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel by Elinor Glyn

He shook off the earth with which he had tried to besprinkle himself and scrambled up.

From Secret Bread by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse

Is it wickedness that speaks in you: 'I feel bad,' you say, 'let him also feel bad—there, I'll besprinkle his heart with my poisonous tears!'

From The Man Who Was Afraid by Herman Bernstein

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

From Folk Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie

So he fires away 264 pages of verbosity, besprinkled with large capitals, cryptic exhortations, capital I's.

From Time Magazine Archive

They cast off their burdens into the flowery meadows and besprinkled themselves with the pools of crystal water beneath the fountains.

From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare

It was followed by a whole lamb fried in oil, stuffed with pounded pistachio nuts, pepper, nutmeg, and coriander seeds, and liberally besprinkled with rose-water and musk.

From The Brass Bottle by F. Anstey

When we came out of the wood, we saw a meadow thickly besprinkled with autumn flowers.

From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Paul Heyse

The neighbourhood of Ana-Capri also, and in fact the whole western portion of the island, is likewise plentifully besprinkled with ancient ruins, one of which is still known by the suggestive title of Timberino.

From The Naples Riviera by Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp) Vaughan

Before, the boy never bothered the sailors in this playful and light work; nay, he took an active part, besprinkling them with water and laughingly running away, when they threatened to pour water over him.

From The Man Who Was Afraid by Herman Bernstein

There were several spots upon the white linen shirt, besprinkling the plaits upon the bosom, and others upon the sleeves; also the cheeks of the youth showed a drop or two on their pallid ground.

From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid

Here are the headquarters of a large division of British troops, the red coats besprinkling every street and roadway.

From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou

At intervals the sedulous attendants went to and fro, besprinkling their heads with the scented contents of their vases.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

See! how the morning dews They sweep, that from their feet besprinkling drop Dispersed, and leave a track oblique behind.

From Anecdotes of Dogs by Edward Jesse