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

She had still to bring away luggage from Maienthal, to besprinkle her friendships, and once more to set foot in the magic circle of her beloved teacher; and had, therefore, gone off.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul

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 Sir Richard Francis Burton

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 Richard Hakluyt

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Here are the headquarters of a large division of British troops, the red coats besprinkling every street and roadway.

From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou

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