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

Never, did even their enemies declare, was a field of battle bestrewn with a finer, perhaps with a nobler race.

From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Thomson, Mrs.

His chest heaved higher, the powerful muscles of his arm grew stiffer, his eyes seemed to shoot out light, as their upward gaze sought in imagination the dark sky bestrewn with stars.

From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Meding, Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar

She had rather a dread of new stories—it took the little boys so long to get initiated and the first steps were so terribly bestrewn with questions.

From A London Life and Other Tales by James, Henry