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

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

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

To besprinkle the walking Englishmen as they came within range with a shower of circulars announcing that at "midi, chez Nigaud, il y aura un dejeuner chaud."

From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd

Beflower, be-flow′ėr, v.t. to cover or besprinkle with flowers.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It was "the end of the pilgrimage" to climb the steps behind this statue and kiss its 426 resplendent silver cape, studded with cockle-shells and besprinkled with gems.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates

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

Every spray of the dark evergreen trees was heavily laden with a light snow that plentifully besprinkled us in passing beneath the often overreaching branches.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake

Torrents of rain had swept the dusty ruins bare, Until, as writing freshly charactered, they shone, Or like to curved tattoo-lines on a woman's arm, With soot besprinkled so that every line is shown.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Reynold Nicholson

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

Gurnemanz obeys, besprinkling him with a baptismal intention.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell

One of the elders, using a knife of quartz, made incisions in the young man’s body, afterwards besprinkling them with urine.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various

You that build the shade-roof, and you that court the rays, You that leap besprinkling the rock stream-rent: He has been our fellow, the morning of our days!

From Poems — Volume 2 by George Meredith

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

From The Poetical Works of Addison; Gay's Fables; and Somerville's Chase With Memoirs and Critical Dissertations, by the Rev. George Gilfillan by