bestrewn

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Some he depicted as he saw them, bestrewn with marble stumps and fallen capitals.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2017

What had set me off on this track, a track that became narrower and narrower and finally petered out in a field bestrewn with burdocks and cow pats?

From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2013

Grace, who had no opinions on art, saw no merit whatever in those "impressions" on canvas from Nick's hand with which the place was bestrewn.

From The Tragic Muse by James, Henry

Unluckily, their beds were so thickly bestrewn with rock that neither of them was navigable for any considerable part of its long course through the ill-starred province.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot by Morley, John

The room in which they were sitting was bestrewn with fragments of dresses and bonnets, which were being torn to pieces in a most wholesale way, with a view to a general rejuvenescence.

From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Stowe, Harriet Beecher