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 floor was bestrewn with the forms of midshipmen from the Cura�oa—“boldly say a wilderness of gunroom”—and in the midst of this sat Mrs. Strong throned on the sofa and reading aloud Gleams of Memory.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew
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 brownish-green carpet of moss and grass spread over the plain, bestrewn with flowers of rare beauty.
From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I by Nansen, Fridtjof
