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.

It is not bedotted with artists’ sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Stevenson, Robert Louis

A fair romantic Island, crown'd With a glow of blossom'd trees, And underneath bestrewn with flowers, The happy dreamer sees.

From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by Wilson, John Lyde