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bestrewn



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Some he depicted as he saw them, bestrewn with marble stumps and fallen capitals.

From New York Times Feb. 15, 2017

What had set me off on this track, a track that became narrower and narrower and finally petered out in a field bestrewn with burdocks and cow pats?

From The Guardian Jun. 22, 2013

We came across directly after the gale, with the Channel all bestrewn with floating wreck, and with a hundred and fifty sick schoolboys from Calais on board.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 by Dickens, Mamie

The way is desert and bestrewn with mountains; and the pest of mosquitoes is suffered, as well as the extreme heat.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Various

The Court was all bestrewn with herbs, and sprinkled with vinegar, as a precaution against gaol air and gaol fever.”

From In Jail with Charles Dickens by Trumble, Alfred




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