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
You said, if you pulled your thumb out, you could besprinkle everything.
From Folk Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie
The novel goes on apace; but I shall besprinkle it with local color afterwards.
From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by Aimée G. Leffingwel McKenzie
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
Suddenly the belligerents drew blades on the very stage itself, and, while the bystanders were expecting to see poetical or vocal blood besprinkle the harpsichords and double basses, the Signora Tesi advanced toward the duelists.
From Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag by George T. (George Titus) Ferris
So he fires away 264 pages of verbosity, besprinkled with large capitals, cryptic exhortations, capital I's.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a man of barely middle age, although his black hair was besprinkled with grey and growing a little thin at the temples.
From The Wicked Marquis by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
It was followed by a whole lamb fried in oil, stuffed with pounded pistachio nuts, pepper, nutmeg, and coriander seeds, and liberally besprinkled with rose-water and musk.
From The Brass Bottle by F. Anstey
At the conclusion of dinner, all the guests were served with basins and ewers of water, and very liberally besprinkled with rose and orange-flower water.
From The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon by Habeeb Risk Allah
There are some squat, tubby-looking little pails in a row; while close by stands a shiny-hatted straw-bit besprinkled Triton blowing his pipe.
From Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches by George Manville Fenn
The nuptial ceremony was concluded by an elder besprinkling the happy pair.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
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
At intervals the sedulous attendants went to and fro, besprinkling their heads with the scented contents of their vases.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
Having once passed it in, I find 'You that leap besprinkling the rock stream-rent,' with its delicate labial pause and its delicate consonantal chime, one of the most fascinating lines in the stanza.
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Others there be, whose parts stand not so much towards Tall Words and Lofty Notions, but consist in scattering up and down and besprinkling all their sermons with plenty of Greek and Latin.
From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Professor Thomas Seccombe Arber
