besprinkle

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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

And when they goe abroade, they besprinkle them selues with fragraunt oyles, to be swete at the smelle.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Hakluyt, Richard

He shook off the earth with which he had tried to besprinkle himself and scrambled up.

From Secret Bread by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)

My God, my Mercy, with how much gall didst Thou out of Thy great goodness besprinkle for me that sweetness?

From The Confessions of St. Augustine by Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie)

So he returned to his place and sat down, where upon all the handmaidens stood up and the lady bade them perfume him with pastiles and besprinkle his face with rose- water.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir