besprinkle

I will scatter seeds criminally thickly on the surface, pat them down, and then remember that they need cover and besprinkle them with some soil that I’ve inevitably dropped on the kitchen floor.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 23, 2019

Love, like men, dies oftener of excess than of hunger; it lives on love, but it resembles those Alpine flowers, which feed themselves by suction from the wet clouds, and die if you besprinkle them.—

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle

Linda Pallant, young as she was, and fresh and fair and charming, gentle and sufficiently shy, looked somehow exclusive—as if the dust of the common world had never been meant to besprinkle her.

From Louisa Pallant by Henry James

It is equally unpleasant as "little woman" or "dearie," both of which besprinkle all his sentences.

From The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel by Elinor Glyn

The waves break on these huge masses without intermission, with a hollow and alternating roar, or rise up in sheets of foam, which besprinkle their hoary fronts.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various

So he fires away 264 pages of verbosity, besprinkled with large capitals, cryptic exhortations, capital I's.

From Time Magazine Archive

This bird-cherry grew not as a bush, but as a tree, about six inches in diameter and thirty feet high, full of branches and bushy, and all besprinkled with bright, white, fragrant blossoms.

From Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Leo Tolstoy, Count

But upon the prophet-king's rich beard, besprinkled with powder of gold, there appeared another glitter as of clear dew,—the diamond dew of the heart, which is tears.

From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by George M. (George Milbrey) Gould

The spiders had now spread their curious mathematical webs over the pales and fences, and they were rendered conspicuous by the moisture with which the fog had besprinkled them.

From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Carl von Linn?

Chattering and laughing, they march up the middle of the street, warm and rosy-cheeked after their labours, besprinkled with fish scales up to the eyes.

From Skipper Worse by Alexander Lange Kielland

See! how the morning dews They sweep, that from their feet besprinkling drop Dispersed, and leave a track oblique behind.

From Anecdotes of Dogs by Edward Jesse

The raven falls upon a monumental tomb of the whitest marble, which there is there under the trees, besprinkling it with his blood.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann

They are continually besprinkling themselves with eau de Cologne, esprit de Lavande, agua rica, or mistura.

From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Thomasina Ross

The clouds hung low, and at intervals warm light showers descended besprinkling both alike.

From The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book by Ontario. Ministry of Education

Angelica and her mother were busy besprinkling her and rubbing her forehead with essences.

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Ernst Theordor Wilhelm Hoffmann