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

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

Daa was a man of great eccentricity of appearance, tall and gaunt, with limbs flung wildly about, and his fine head recklessly bestrewn with disordered hair, grizzled and reddish.

From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund

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