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

Then take her blood, and cast it on this brake, And therewithal besprinkle all his face, And he shall be restored to his sense, His health and memory, as heretofore.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by William Carew Hazlitt

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

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

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

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 The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul

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

From Time Magazine Archive

When the Tadmorians had inspected the mine, and had come back muddy and besprinkled with water and besmirched with candle-drippings, the train went on its way down the canyon.

From A Romance in Transit by Francis Lynde

The neighbourhood of Ana-Capri also, and in fact the whole western portion of the island, is likewise plentifully besprinkled with ancient ruins, one of which is still known by the suggestive title of Timberino.

From The Naples Riviera by Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp) Vaughan

When we came out of the wood, we saw a meadow thickly besprinkled with autumn flowers.

From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Paul Heyse

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

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

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

They are continually besprinkling themselves with eau de Cologne, esprit de Lavande, agua rica, or mistura.

From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Thomasina Ross

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

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