bestrewn

Example Sentences

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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

No fight is there!—you, sire, are old, Your hair and beard are all bestrewn with gray, And as a child your speech.

From La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier by Rabillon, Léonce

From this point the way along the shore is wilder and rougher—more bestrewn with slabs and boulders than any we have yet seen.

From A Month in Yorkshire by White, Walter

Verily he trots off, comforting his angry belly with his plenteous tail, flattened and bestrewn under it.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage