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

V. be variegated &c. adj.; variegate, stripe, streak, checker, chequer; bespeckle†, speckle; besprinkle, sprinkle; stipple, maculate, dot, bespot†; tattoo, inlay, damascene; embroider, braid, quilt.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

And thus full of faith he laboured on, telling the people of these scattered islands, which besprinkle the southern ocean like stars in the milky way, of the love of Christ.

From Beneath the Banner by F. J. Cross

To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

You said, if you pulled your thumb out, you could besprinkle everything.

From Folk Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Petals five, small, ovate, yellow besprinkled with orange.

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

"Good-evening!" said a familiar voice when the door was unclosed, and Dr. Baxter walked in as naturally and coolly as if it were not ten o'clock at night, and he plentifully besprinkled with rain.

From Jessamine A Novel by Marion Harland

After we had shaken hands with them they hung garlands of flowers round our necks, thrust small bouquets on us and liberally besprinkled us with scent.

From Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly

Mr. Whistler writes in an off-hand, colloquial style, much besprinkled with French—a style which might be called familiar if one often encountered anything like it.

From Views and Reviews by Henry James

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

The monster gave a frightful howl, and lashed violently with its tail, besprinkling us with the black slimy mud of the swamp.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various

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

Before, the boy never bothered the sailors in this playful and light work; nay, he took an active part, besprinkling them with water and laughingly running away, when they threatened to pour water over him.

From The Man Who Was Afraid by Herman Bernstein

Then, he drew together a great heap of crisp shavings and slathers, plentifully besprinkling it with what remained in the can.

From At Fault by Kate Chopin