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

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

Suddenly the belligerents drew blades on the very stage itself, and, while the bystanders were expecting to see poetical or vocal blood besprinkle the harpsichords and double basses, the Signora Tesi advanced toward the duelists.

From Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag by George T. (George Titus) Ferris

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

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 Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

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

From Time Magazine Archive

They came close to the little Peppers, so that the stiff black silk coat, now plentifully besprinkled with mud, brushed them as it passed.

From Ben Pepper by Margaret Sidney

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

The Goddess of Liberty is ideally a creature of beautiful form, but really her face is scarred and worn, her figure gnarled and warped with time, and her garments besprinkled with blood.

From History of Human Society by Frank W. (Frank Wilson) Blackmar

Body black, rugged, its wing-cases besprinkled here and there with clustered dirty spots.

From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Carl von Linn?

Then, he drew together a great heap of crisp shavings and slathers, plentifully besprinkling it with what remained in the can.

From At Fault by Kate Chopin

Having once passed it in, I find 'You that leap besprinkling the rock stream-rent,' with its delicate labial pause and its delicate consonantal chime, one of the most fascinating lines in the stanza.

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

The monster gave a frightful howl, and lashed violently with its tail, besprinkling us with the black slimy mud of the swamp.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various

This then—taken together with the stories now besprinkling the newspapers—was the situation.

From Sir George Tressady — Volume I by Mrs. Humphry Ward

Others there be, whose parts stand not so much towards Tall Words and Lofty Notions, but consist in scattering up and down and besprinkling all their sermons with plenty of Greek and Latin.

From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Professor Thomas Seccombe Arber