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

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.

But quickly she extricated herself, and they picked their way cautiously over the bestrewn threshold out into the hall.

From The Strollers by Fisher, Harrison

Away I went into the thick darkness of the men's dirty cave, groping my way into its innermost recesses among the bags, chests, and beds with which the deck was bestrewn.

From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Bullen, Frank T.